#language

What a relief that reason prevailed at the House education committee on Wednesday and the discriminatory bill that would have made passing a Greek language exam a requirement for attending ...

Independent MEP Fidias Panayiotou remarked he would “probably be a billionaire” had he not entered politics, presenting himself as a reluctant public figure whose online success was derailed by holding ...

Cypriot Greek speakers may soon be understood by the same voice-activated systems that routinely struggle with the island’s dialect, thanks to a breakthrough speech-to-text AI model developed by a ...

By Mark Post If you are fluent in any language other than English, you have probably noticed that some things are impossible to translate exactly. A Japanese designer marvelling at ...

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ...

One teacher’s mission to promote Esperanto across the island In a quiet classroom of 15 in Limassol, a language once feared by dictators is being brought back to life. Dr ...

When does a story drink water and what do you do when confronted with the dreaded black dog? These and many more questions arise when you come to Cyprus and ...

Around 300 of the 700 children at the Bekirpasha high school in Trikomo “do not speak Turkish as their first language”, according to local ‘MP’ Biray Hamzaogullari. Hamzaogullari, who belongs to opposition ...

Around 4,500 students in Cyprus are believed to have a developmental language disorder, however experts fear many go under the radar and rarely receive the proper diagnosis and help, it emerged ...

A team of scientists is looking for writings in the Cypriot dialect to create a bot for the internet and smart phones A team of four data scientists and a ...

There are more than 17,000 children whose mother language is not Greek in the state education system, education minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday as he unveiled new programmes to boost ...