1 A World of Many (Fewer) Voices -- 2 An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species -- Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words -- 3 Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning -- Case ...

In mid-November, about 50 experts on the world’s endangered languages gathered at the University of Utah. They were tasked with beginning an ambitious effort to catalog these languages and produce an ...

Does it matter when languages die? This is a question bothering a number of people, from professional linguists to amateur language-lovers and minority activists. As globalization accelerates, so does ...

Languages and life. Languages, providers of life -- Languages, living species -- Language and speech -- Words and the struggle for life -- Languages and death. What is a dead language? -- The paths to ...

Last year, when 89-year-old Marie Smith Jones died, a language died with her. Jones was the last speaker of a south-central Alaskan language called Eyak. Once used extensively along 350 miles of the ...

Listen Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Request reprint permissions here. The world’s 190-odd nation-states are home to 7,168 “living languages,” according to the latest figure from ...

ATMORE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Poarch Band of Creek Indians is determined not to let their native language die. The tribe’s ...