This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they do more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today and at least 3,000 of them, or 40 percent, are endangered. English is ...

New York isn’t just a haven for Christians from around the world; it’s also a sanctuary for their rare and dying dialects. On any given Sunday in New York City, an evangelical church of Guatemalan ...

The first time I ever encountered an endangered language was at the 2014 Aotearoa New Zealand All Blacks game against the United States Eagles. My mom, a former college rugby player, had heard the All ...

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language. When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to ...

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible ...

UCSC professor of linguistics Sandra Chung has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative project to help preserve the endangered Chamorro language. Chamorro is an ...

The millennia-old language of Gumbaynggirr was critically endangered. Now, a series of tourism initiatives are helping to ...

1. Introduction / Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank -- pt. I. Endangered Languages: 2. Language ecology and endangerment / Lenore A. Grenoble. 3. Speakers and communities / Colette Grinevald and ...