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Why Türkiye Replaced Turkey as the Country’s Official Name

In 2022, Turkey asked the international community to use Türkiye, the country’s name in Turkish, instead of…

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Advanced Spanish Sounds: Allophones, Assimilation, and Connected Speech

Spanish pronunciation is not just about getting each sound right in isolation. To understand native Spanish, you…

A Beginner’s Guide to the Berber Languages

The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a group of closely related…