Language lovers and locals of an isolated mining region of the Ozarks are scrambling to preserve what's left of a dialect known as pawpaw French before it fades. The dialect once dominated this ...

The history of the United States is multilingual, and many non-English speaking communities have managed to maintain their languages, sometimes for hundreds of years. Here are six dialects of French ...

Most people know French dialects exist in the state of Louisiana, but few know there are French dialects native to Midwestern states, including Missouri. Old Mines, Mo., an unincorporated village in ...

OLD MINES, Mo. (AP) — A small circle of history researchers is racing to capture the last remnants of a little-known French dialect that endures in some old Missouri mining towns before the few ...

Louisiana has a long history with the French language, and while most Louisianans no longer speak French, a growing number of schools are immersing students in it - all kinds of it. Member station ...

In this June 14, 2014 photo, Dance Discovery members Rebecca Taylor, left, and Tim Hirzel join other members of the troupe in French colonial dance at the Felix Valle House State Historic Site during ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading.

A distinct version of French is disappearing from the isolated Old Mines region in the Missouri Ozarks. Thousands of people once spoke pawpaw... Saving A French Dialect That Once Echoed In The Ozarks ...

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