STORY: No one else in the world can speak this language. Katrina Esau is the only known person fluent in N|uu. It's one of a group of indigenous South African languages all but stamped out by decades ...

For Estelle Balsirow ’26, language is more than a field of study: it’s a reclamation. Balsirow, a Kalmyk-American linguistics major, is one of the first Yale students to study Kalmyk — an endangered ...

Languages, like animal species, can go extinct. More than half of the world’s approximately 7,000 signed and spoken languages are currently endangered. And without intervention they are likely to ...

On average, every month across the globe, two Indigenous languages disappear, according to the United Nations. And 40% of the world's languages, mostly Indigenous, are threatened with long-term ...

Indigenous language endangerment is a global crisis, and in response, a normative “endangered languages” narrative about the crisis has developed. Though seemingly beneficent and accurate in many of ...

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 new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...

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 ...

Every two weeks, a language is at risk of disappearing. According to the UN, at least 50% of the 7,000 different languages ...

NEW YORK — The apartment building, in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, is a hive of nationalities. A Pakistani woman entered the elevator on a recent afternoon with a big bag of groceries, flicking a ...