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February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.

Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of ...

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 ...

Join Language City author and linguist Ross Perlin for a live talk about the endangered languages of NYC and the efforts to preserve them in a city where over 700 languages are spoken! - Discover the ...

NEW YORK - More than 700 languages can be heard on the streets of New York, but linguists say many are in danger of extinction. The Buddhist temple on 75th Street in Elmhurst is a gathering place for ...

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 ...

When a language dies, humanity suffers more than a loss of words. The diversity, culture and heritage of a society are threatened with extinction as well. And yet, many of the languages now spoken ...

For the past decade, one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, square mile after square mile, has been my home: Queens, New York. The soundtrack outside my door is extraordinary: On ...

Endangered languages are dying rapidly. Linguists are trying to preserve some of them By the end of the century, more than 40% of the world's estimated 7000 thousand languages are in danger of ...

For his latest book, “On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues,” photographer B.A. Van Sise traversed the United States to document speakers of endangered languages.

On International Mother Language Day, we explore which languages are most at risk of disappearing, where they are spoken, and ...