From Kurdish to Kichwa, six Minnesotans work to preserve the languages that keep them connected to their home, heritage and ...

HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — A new study found that hundreds of asylum-seekers placed in the Migrant Protection Protocols program spoke 40 different languages, including several rare and ...

A mysterious artifact, called the Bashplemi Tablet, was discovered in 2021 and has a never-before-seen writing system on it.

The U.S. Census Bureau tracks data on more than 500 languages spoken across the country, creating significant hurdles for public agencies tasked with equally serving all residents through the ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On April 4, Licho, one of the four last ...

In the desert town of Lajamanu, Australia, at the bend of a narrow dirt road, Carmel O’Shannessy worked at a school as a teacher-linguist in the early 2000s. Lajamanu’s indigenous Warlpiri people, who ...

A creole language forms when two different languages mix into a new language, like Haitian Creole which is a mixture of French and West African languages, and Jamaican Patois, a mix of English and ...