China signed an agreement with Turkey on Wednesday at the 4th China (Beijing) International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) to jointly build a cross-border e-commerce platform.
China's urbanization drive has meant huge numbers of people now live very far from where they were born and raised. Consequently, many local dialects are under threat.
Thriving economies is driving the extinction of some languages, and conservation should focus on the most developed countries where languages are vanishing the fastest, a British study suggested on Wednesday.
Infants who can't yet speak themselves are able to recognize that people who speak different languages use words differently, according to New Zealand research.
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