In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel ...

CHUR, Switzerland — The people of this corner of Switzerland are arguing whether language is a matter of the heart or the pocketbook. Depending on whom you talk to in the steep, alpine enclaves of ...

EUROPE Is the home of the idea that people who see themselves as a nation should have a country. And very often those countries have seen themselves linguistically: France is the home of those who ...

ZURICH—As kids return to school in Val Müstair, high in the eastern tip of the Swiss Alps, they are also entering the front lines of a bitter battle: the fight over the future of a centuries-old Latin ...

Learning a language involves much more than vocabulary and grammar; language learners must also uncover the cultural values and ideologies embedded within the language itself. In the case of Romance ...

A researcher in England claims he has cracked the code of the mysterious medieval Voynich manuscript — a work full of mystical drawings and indecipherable writing that was first discovered by an ...

Joseph Wolf Brewing Company, ca. 1914. Photograph by John Runk. The Joseph Wolf Brewing Company was the largest brewery outside of the Twin Cities. It closed in 1925, a casualty of Prohibition. The ...