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

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 ...

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 ...

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

For his latest book, “On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues,” photographer B.A. Van Sise traversed the United States to document speakers of endangered languages.

About 29 of Nigerian spoken languages are critically endangered with some like Njerep and Ichen, on the brink of extinction, the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) has said. NLN also unveiled a ...

Endangered languages are dying rapidly. Linguists are trying to preserve some of them By the end of the century, more than 40% of the world's estimated 7000 thousand languages are in danger of ...