Politics says something different For political scientists, the difference between a language and a dialect is not based on mutual understandability, but rather politics.

Some claim Ukrainian is just “a dialect” of Russian, which serves Putin’s narrative that Ukraine belongs to Russia.

On the leeward side of Kaua’i, Ke Kula Niʻihau O Kekaha — a pre-K-12 charter school — is celebrating its 25th anniversary and ...

The difference between a language and dialect is just as much about politics as it is linguistics.