For the first time in nearly 30 years, efforts to save the Yavapai-Apache languages are being made with the launch of online dictionaries and picture books featuring Dilzhe’e (Apache) and ...

Exploring links between documentation, sociolinguistics and language revitalization: an introduction / José Antonio Flores Farfán and Fernando Ramallo -- The social life of a language: will Manambu ...

An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo by Cronkite News) To support the revitalization, protection, preservation and reclamation of Indigenous languages across the United States, the ...

There are currently 7,164 languages worldwide; however, this number is decreasing each year. According to Ethnologue, a research center for language intelligence, about 44% of languages are endangered ...

Endangered languages are dying rapidly. Linguists are trying to preserve some of them By the end of the century, more than 40% of the world's estimated 7000 thousand languages are in danger of ...

For his latest book, “On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues,” photographer B.A. Van Sise traversed the United States to document speakers of endangered languages.

Language researchers just released the latest version of the Ethnologue, which aims to catalogue the state of all of the world's languages, all 7,164 of them. Many of these languages are endangered.

The first time I ever encountered an endangered language was at the 2014 Aotearoa New Zealand All Blacks game against the United States Eagles. My mom, a former college rugby player, had heard the All ...

"I'm an Ashkenazi Jew," he continues, "so one of my ancestral languages is Yiddish, which today is natively spoken by no more than 10% of our community. Globalization didn't drive Yiddish into decline ...

There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. A study ...

Language City, Ross Perlin’s fascinating profile of New York’s endangered languages, begins with a mention of another city’s fabled landmark, where linguistic diversity came to represent “nothing but ...