In mid-November, about 50 experts on the world’s endangered languages gathered at the University of Utah. They were tasked with beginning an ambitious effort to catalog these languages and produce an ...
Last year, when 89-year-old Marie Smith Jones died, a language died with her. Jones was the last speaker of a south-central Alaskan language called Eyak. Once used extensively along 350 miles of the ...
ATMORE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Poarch Band of Creek Indians is determined not to let their native language die. The tribe’s ...