There are, at our best estimate, 7,000 languages in use across the world. That may sound like a linguistic ecosystem in rude ...

The history of the Yuracaré can be told through their refusal to integrate with Bolivia’s colonial system. They settled on the border between the country’s mountain foothills and its plains and ...

In a remote mountainous pocket of Morogoro Region, the Uvidunda community once lived largely detached from the accelerating forces of the modern world.For generations, their language, Chividunda, ...

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Thursday, appointed four professors under its Professorial Endowment Chair initiative to prevent the extinction of the Igbo language. The appointed scholars include ...

LAST SPEAKERS: Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda (left) and Kamala Sen Kusunda pictured in 2018. Since Gyani Maiya's passing in 2020, Kamala is the only native fluent Kusunda speaker alive. JOHAN REINHARD ...

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 ...

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Chinua Achebe: His novel Things Fall Apart, the most famous book in African literature, does not yet exist in his language Photo: Courtesy “Repeat after me. The red lorry went round the red bend,” an ...