February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.

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An Irish proverb advises that it is often wise for one to hold his tongue. An té is ciúine is é is buaine, or “he who is silent is the stronger.” But that ancestral wisdom isn’t the best policy when ...

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 ...

A language that was declared to be extinct seven decades ago may be making a return. Ckunsa was the primary language of one of Chile's Indigenous peoples. As John Bartlett reports, today's speakers ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they do more ...

On International Mother Language Day, we explore which languages are most at risk of disappearing, where they are spoken, and ...