Five or six languages die every year, experts say. Within two centuries, 40 percent of the world’s extant languages may be gone. These are sobering numbers for a linguist like Anthony Aristar, a ...

LANGUAGE AND SILENCE by George Steiner. 426 pages. Afheneum. $8. “A man can learn half a dozen professions by reading Zola,” says George Steiner. And a man can learn the ground rules to half a dozen ...

I forget that I know three languages. Partly because who’s to say what constitutes “knowing,” given the way that language skills degrade without practice? Another reason I forget is because the ...

About once every two weeks, a language goes extinct, said David Harrison, a Swarthmore linguistics professor, before a screening of his documentary "The Linguists" last night in Smith-Buonanno 106.

It was a sunny morning in May, and I was in a car with a linguist and a tax preparer trolling the suburbs of Chicago for native speakers of Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of Jesus. The linguist, ...

WASHINGTON -- Every two weeks or so the last elderly man or woman with full command of a particular language dies. At that rate, as many as 2,500 native tongues will disappear forever by 2100. David W ...

Ladderworks is a publishing platform of diverse picture books and online curriculum with the mission to empower over a million kids to become social entrepreneurs. Our current series features ...

Kusundas, once a hunter-gatherer Indigenous ethnic group from mid-western Nepal, have a unique language that isn't related to any other language in the world. Researcher and writer Uday Raj Aaley, ...

Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language, ...

It’s presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than others. But 11-year-old Irene Her stands in front of the classroom, ...