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 ...

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.

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 ...

It was a balmy day in Taiwan in November 2019, and I was rummaging through the Family Mart adjoined to the Qishan Bus Station. It was my last chance for 9V batteries and spicy tuna rice balls before ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Printmaker Gidinatiy Hartman sits at a market table with their prints for sale on Oct. 19, 2024. Hartman, who grew up in Alaska and now lives in St. Paul, is Deg Xitʼan, an Indigenous Athabaskan ...

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 ...