An 84-year-old man in Assam, Bhogeswar Thomung, is the sole proficient speaker of the critically endangered Khamyang language. To protect such languages from extinction, the 'Endangered Language ...
Concentrated among 1,000 people in the remote Daliwe valley, siPhuthi has gained a dictionary, a Bible translation and official recognition thanks to intrepid linguists and activists ...
An 84-year-old man is the last known barrier between one of Assam’s indigenous languages and its complete extinction, as audio, video and textual records of three critically endangered tongues of the ...
NEW YORK - More than 700 languages can be heard on the streets of New York, but linguists say many are in danger of extinction. The Buddhist temple on 75th Street in Elmhurst is a gathering place for ...
Khamyang, Tai Phake and Singpho—have been digitally preserved under a comprehensive language documentation initiative led by ...
Join Language City author and linguist Ross Perlin for a live talk about the endangered languages of NYC and the efforts to preserve them in a city where over 700 languages are spoken! - Discover the ...
Khamyang, Tai Phake and Singpho — have been digitally archived under the Endangered Language Programme, ensuring that their manuscripts, oral traditions, and cultural memories are preserved for ...
When a language dies, humanity suffers more than a loss of words. The diversity, culture and heritage of a society are threatened with extinction as well. And yet, many of the languages now spoken ...
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 ...
About 29 of Nigerian spoken languages are critically endangered with some like Njerep and Ichen, on the brink of extinction, the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) has said. NLN also unveiled a ...