American Sign Language enrolment jumped more than 16 per cent from 2006 to 2009 while Spanish, French and German barely moved, according to Modern Language Association data.
Around 100 protesters gathered near Ukraine's parliament against a language law expanding Russian, arguing bilingualism in law means Ukrainian retreat in practice.
Quebec is replacing the struck-down Bill 104 with a points-based test that asks parents to prove their child's English schooling would be an authentic education.
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Linguists in Arunachal Pradesh set out to record an Aka dialect and found Koro instead, a distinct language with about 1,000 speakers and no written record.
Film-maker Heather Quinlan is recording New York's disappearing accents in If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary built on her grandfathers' voices.
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