UNESCO warns that about 40 percent of the world’s 7,000 languages are at risk of extinction by 2025, with African and ...

A mysterious lost language spoken 8,000 years ago in Eurasia is the hidden ancestor linking Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and ...

Language is one of the most defining aspects of human civilization. It has shaped cultures, preserved histories, and ...

Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What ...

Tia Koerte grew up speaking Olelo Niihau, a dialect specific to the Niihau Hawaiian island, and knew she wanted to help preserve it. Email newsletter signup Sign up for our daily email newsletter ...

Many languages that once defined cultures now exist only in written records, fragments, or in the memories of a few speakers. Some were lost through conquest, colonization, and cultural suppression.

Indigenous researchers and roboticists are crafting innovative tools to help save endangered dialects Serena Jampel More than a third of the world’s over 6,000 languages are at risk of extinction, and ...

How far would you go to recall a forgotten word? For one Indigenous man and his family, that journey spans nearly 800 miles to Jesuit archives in Canada. How far would you go to recall a forgotten ...

For most of human history, the survival of specific languages has relied on one generation passing it on to the next — a process that, in many speech communities, unfolds naturally. But, according to ...