There are currently 7,164 languages worldwide; however, this number is decreasing each year. According to Ethnologue, a research center for language intelligence, about 44% of languages are endangered ...

Linguistics professor Mark Sicoli leads two projects dedicated to analyzing and revitalizing the Zapotec-Chatino language family, native to Mexico, with an innovative method that goes beyond spoken ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After the killing last week of an Indigenous ...

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 ...