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, ...

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, ...

Around the world, thousands of languages are in danger of going extinct. According to the United Nations, an indigenous language has been dying every two weeks. The loss to humanity is difficult to ...

Concerned by the threat of extinction of the Igbo language, some Igbo women under the aegis of the Igbo Women Assembly (IWA) have designed a programme to help save the Igbo language from going into ...

This story was originally published by Minority Africa and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing partnership agreement. Standing out within the Mau Forest ...

PARIS — Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away. Those are just two of the nearly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than ...