Growing up, Alaina Tahlate visited with her great-grandfather nearly every week. A language worker, he inspired Tahlate’s ...

Languages exist as ever-evolving systems of human communication that go beyond complex grammar or words you could learn from a quick search on Google Translate. Language consists of body language, ...

Ghanaian journalist Justice Baidoo examines the threat to hundreds of languages in Africa including his own indigenous ...

A book that charts how endangered languages are preserved in the modern world has won this year’s British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. The annual Book Prize for Global ...

Meaning “Mother of Rivers” in Thai and Lao languages, the Mekong winds through ... worried that the “Mekong Ghost,” a critically endangered giant salmon carp that can measure up to four ...

Yet another difference between island languages and island species, fortunately, is that the former do not face the same existential threats as the latter. Animals and plants are going extinct at ...

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first ...

A book about preserving languages which are going extinct has won the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2024. The prize, which is given to the best work of non-fiction ...

The speech was paired with a comprehensive look at the use of Indian sign language in the paintings of Charlie Russell.