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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The disappearance of a mother tongue erodes cultural identity, community well-being, unique ecological knowledge systems, and ...

The Takelma language, once spoken by the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians and others, went extinct in Southwestern Oregon by 1940. Now, tribal members are in the process of restoring it.

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 ...

It’s estimated that there are over 7,000 documented languages spoken across the world. Yet around half of these languages are endangered. Between 1950 and 2021, around 230 languages were wiped from ...

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 ...

AGNESS -- On the same riverbank where Army troops burned his great-grandfather's village in 1856, Gilbert Towner on a recent weekend was teaching his disappearing native language to a new generation ...