Multilingualism Articles

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Raising a Child as Bilingual or Multilingual

(Written by Callum Madle, Shannon Walker and Phoebe Harrison) In the United Kingdom, we live in an (increasingly) monolingual society, a reality reinforced by the fact that English is often considered as the most ‘international’ tongue, meaning most native English...

Languages In Nigeria

Nigeria is undoubtedly one of the world’s culturally rich countries, given its numerous ethnic groups. All these groups make up an estimated population of well over 200 million globally.  And there are no less than 500 different languages used on a daily basis among...

Sub-Saharan African Languages: Are They Remote?

Africa has a long history of being a multilingual continent. And as expected, these multiple languages are derivatives of the many cultures in the African space. Africa is said to be home to an estimated two thousand to three thousand distinct languages. One of the...

How Common is the Russian Language in Former Soviet States?

For many of the old Soviet states, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 created an opportunity to forge their own national identity. In the context of language, Russian, the dominant language across the different Soviet countries, was replaced in most of the...

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