Posts with tag.: linguistic diversity

African languages embody the cultural heritage, diversity, and identity of the continent

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.

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.