Hundreds of years ago, there was a kingdom stretching from the west of what is today Georgia all the way to Russia's Sochi and Turkey's Rize. In 1982, all minority languages were forbidden from being ...

Oxford University English Language Professor Suzanne Romaine emphasized the importance of preserving endangered languages in a speech Thursday evening at the Leavey Conference Center. “We should think ...

Once the language of Christ, Aramaic is slowly dying. A recent article in Smithsonian magazine outlines what one linguist and his colleagues are... The Language Of Empires Faces Extinction The ...

Lagos politicians, including Lanre Sunmi Odesanya, Mrs. Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, Tolani Ali-Balogun, and Moshood Mayegun on Thursday, September 26, called for the preservation of the Yoruba language to ...

Lagos politicians, including Lanre Sunmi Odesanya, Mrs. Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, Tolani Ali-Balogun and Moshood Mayegun yesterday called for the preservation of Yoruba language to prevent its extinction.

Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late ...

Language is one of our species' most important skills, as it has enabled us to occupy nearly every corner of the planet. Among other things, language allows indigenous societies to use the ...

PUEBLO OF ACOMA, N.M. (AP) – With fewer than 100 speakers remaining, the Acoma Keres language is on the verge of extinction. Few people younger than 40 have learned the language. If no action is taken ...

Clockwise from top left: Seven endangered species whose habitats were hard hit by the Australian wildfires: spiral sun-orchid, austral toadflax, magenta lilly pilly, glossy black-cockatoo, long-nosed ...

A SPECIAL PLACE: Western Carolina University students who are members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians hold "wi," a symbol in the Cherokee language for "place." Photo courtesy of WCU In ...