Multilingual Manchester

On 21-22 May 2018, Multilingual Manchester will host a two-day workshop on 'Multilingual Landscapes: Planning, Policy, and Contact Linguistic Perspectives'. The workshop programme is available to view here. Participation in the workshop is by invitation. If you are...

The Multilingual Communities strand of the AHRC-OWRI consortium ‘Cross-language Dynamics: Re-shaping community’ is offering two grants at a value of up to £11,500 each (at 80%, in line with AHRC funding rules) for projects that are devoted to university engagement...

Member of the German Bundestag Johann Saathoff (SPD, Norden in East Frisia) held a speech at the German parliament on 2 March denouncing a motion by the right-wing Alternative for Germany party to amend the constitution to make German the only national language....

A group of linguists have asked the UK Statistics Authority to consider re-drafting the question on languages other than Welsh and Gaelic ahead of the next national census planned for 2021. They say that the question ‘What is your main language?’, which was used in...

International Mother Language Day is held every year on 21 February to promote awareness of language diversity and multilingualism. Led by UNESCO, it has been observed across the world since 2000, inspired by events surrounding the Bengali language movement in...

Multilingual Manchester is working with Migrant Support to deliver interpreter skills training as part of a project that seeks to understand migrant experience of English language learning, and translation and interpreting provision in the City of Manchester. Dr...

The Dialects of Arabic web resource has now been launched. It features a database that compares dialects of Arabic from fifteen different countries, and will be of use to researchers, students of Arabic, and practitioners in forensic linguistics working on Language...

A new MLM paper, titled 'Urban Multilingualism and the Civic University: A Dynamic, Non-Linear Model of Participatory Research', will appear in the journal Social Inclusion. Drawing on the example of Multilingual Manchester, the paper shows how a university research...

We are offering small grants to support film production on the subject of world and community languages (priority is being given to students and recent graduates of The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at The University of Manchester). More information is...

Girls in Manchester are more likely than boys to have ‘unique’ names, and the names given to children are likely to reflect parents’ home languages and cultures, according to a new study carried out by Multilingual Manchester. Amy Portwood asked 120 local mothers...