Their history marked by cultural seclusion, the people of a tropical Bolivian region publish the most complete work in their language to-date ...

ST JOHN’S, Isle of Man – The squeals of laughter echoing from the playground sound like any other elementary school in its first week back in session. Listen closely, though, and there’s something ...

PUEBLO OF ACOMA, N.M. (AP) – With fewer than 100 speakers remaining, the Acoma Keres language is on the verge of extinction. Few people younger than 40 have learned the language. If no action is taken ...

Once the language of Christ, Aramaic is slowly dying. A recent article in Smithsonian magazine outlines what one linguist and his colleagues are... The Language Of Empires Faces Extinction The ...

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...

A SPECIAL PLACE: Western Carolina University students who are members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians hold "wi," a symbol in the Cherokee language for "place." Photo courtesy of WCU In ...

Oxford University English Language Professor Suzanne Romaine emphasized the importance of preserving endangered languages in a speech Thursday evening at the Leavey Conference Center. “We should think ...

Lagos politicians, including Lanre Sunmi Odesanya, Mrs. Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, Tolani Ali-Balogun, and Moshood Mayegun on Thursday, September 26, called for the preservation of the Yoruba language to ...

Lagos politicians, including Lanre Sunmi Odesanya, Mrs. Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, Tolani Ali-Balogun and Moshood Mayegun yesterday called for the preservation of Yoruba language to prevent its extinction.

Clockwise from top left: Seven endangered species whose habitats were hard hit by the Australian wildfires: spiral sun-orchid, austral toadflax, magenta lilly pilly, glossy black-cockatoo, long-nosed ...

Dustin Morrow, a student earning his master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Minnesota, remembers the first time he heard someone casually speaking Ojibwe. He was 25 years old and ...