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

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Perlin, a co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, has been researching linguistic diversity and language endangerment since 2006. He is the author of “Language City: The Fight to Preserve ...

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 ...

The books in the Nanai, Dolgan, Sami and Tofalari languages will be available at the Moscow Arctic Library No. 77 MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. The Russian Academy of Sciences' Clean Arctic - Vostok-77 ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

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