Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life.

I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished. The writer Paul Tough and his son Max.Credit...Gueorgui Pinkhassov for The ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

In an online post on the tiny Turkmen corner of TikTok earlier this month, a user introducing herself as a female singer complained of being language-shamed during an interview for a gig at a ...