The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the award of 10 fellowships and 24 institutional grants totaling $3.9 million in the agencies' ...

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 ...

Motorola has added support for two new indigenous languages spoken in Latin America as part of a larger effort to make technology more accessible. Beginning today, Kaingang and Nheengatu will be among ...

It was a balmy day in Taiwan in November 2019, and I was rummaging through the Family Mart adjoined to the Qishan Bus Station. It was my last chance for 9V batteries and spicy tuna rice balls before ...

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.

What are the Jewish languages? Some are well known — Hebrew is the language of the Torah and of Israel, and Yiddish was the language of the shtetls and the great centers of European Jewish culture.

The Internet is all about communication, which is super, but unfortunately, it’s putting a lot of languages at risk of extinction by promoting more commonly spoken languages. It’s sad that we’re ...

The Laz Institute and İstanbul Caucasus Culture Association (İKKD) have published the "2021 Endangered Languages Calendar" as part of the "Endangered Languages Project." While the calendar has been ...