The Catalan language is more than a means of communication; it is a symbol of Catalonia's cultural richness, historical legacy, and collective memory
Posts with tag.: Preservation
The Georgian language stands as a testament to the richness and diversity of human linguistic expression
A primary school principal in Izmir has recorded 4,500 Romani words from three neighbourhoods, building the first Turkish-Romany dictionary from scratch.
Research reveals that some indigenous languages lack terminology to describe climate change (Kenya).
Africa Talks Climate found that many indigenous languages have no words for the science of climate change, leaving warnings unintelligible to the people most at risk.
Stephen Pax Leonard will live a year with the Inughuit to record Inuktun, an undocumented language with about 1,000 speakers and a thinning sheet of ice.
A list of seven languages hanging on by a thread is entertaining, but the real predictors of language death are duller and far more reliable than speaker counts.
Belarus's 2009 census found those calling Belarusian their native language fell from almost 74 percent to 53 percent, with only 23 percent speaking it at home.