Many languages will always have a special place in my heart, but there is one language in particular that introduced me to the language learning community and other languages that I really like today, ...

In order to make further progress on a rare language, University of Iowa graduate student and teaching assistant Douglas Cole spent four weeks in Laos this past summer. “I study linguistics, and ...

When Prof. Abby Cohn, linguistics, and director of the Southeast Asia Program, sought to offer a research methods class this semester focusing on the language Lao, she asked everyone around her if ...

SAVANNAKHET, Laos – Listen closely in Laos and you can hear a linguistic renaissance. It sounds a lot like the letter “R.” Forty-five years ago, Laos’s communist government officially dropped the “R” ...

The Lao language version of a book on Lancang-Mekong cooperation "Sharing the River" was officially launched in Vientiane on Friday. Photo taken on Nov. 10, 2017 shows the launching ceremony of the ...