How well do language models understand Meenzerisch, the dialect spoken in the German city of Mainz? A research team led by ...

Hochdeutsch (standard German) is what's taught in schools, and what you hear on mainstream TV. But a huge variety of dialects are alive and thriving - especially in Bavaria - says Augsburg local Nic ...

Large language models such as GPT-5 and Llama systematically rate speakers of German dialects less favorably than those using Standard German. This is shown by a recent collaborative study between ...

BERLIN (AP) - Germany plans to test software that can automatically recognize a person's dialect to help determine whether asylum-seekers are really where they claim they're from. Germany's Office for ...

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FEW Germans now say Appel rather than Apfel (apple) or maken instead of machen (to make). The north German dialects that use such variants are mostly dead or dying. But the cultural differences that ...

Europe is home to 24 official languages, while as many as 200 are spoken across the continent. That might not seem like a big number when compared to Africa, where 1,500 and 2,000 languages are spoken ...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects - two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who speak ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to test software that can automatically recognize a person's dialect to help determine whether ...