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 ...

SANJIAZI, China — Seated cross-legged in her farmhouse on the kang, a brick sleeping platform warmed by a fire below, Meng Shujing lifted her chin and sang a lullaby in Manchu, softly but clearly.

The Igbo language, a core pillar of identity and cultural heritage in south-eastern Nigeria, is experiencing declining usage among ...

Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late ...

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 ...

An Igbo group, Igbo Woman Assembly, IWA, has raised the alarm that the spoken Igbo language may disappear in the next few years if nothing is done. According to the group, the number of Igbo people, ...

The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, John Azuta-Mbata, has cautioned that the Igbo language risks extinction if decisive and collective steps are not taken to revitalise it. He gave the ...

A dancer entertains guests during the opening of the 2023 Devolution Conference in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard] Language matters spiritually, culturally and emotionally.

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 ...

The National Librarian/Chief Executive Officer of the National Library of Nigeria, Prof Chinwe Anunobi, has expressed deep concern over the steady decline of indigenous languages globally, warning ...