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

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Duolingo (DUOL), the world’s #1 online learning platform, kicked off its end-of-year celebration of learning with the launch of its global Language Report ...

PARIS — Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away. Those are just two of the nearly ...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- Former Brunswick resident John Wolff’s lifelong passion for language has led him to study nearly 20 languages and dialects. He said that desire came from a broader interest in ...

Researchers have found that languages around the world have words for 'this' and 'that'. The 45-strong international team studied 29 languages from around the world including English, Spanish, ...

Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to revitalize a language as well as communities of speakers. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. In a. world where the English spreads globally via the ...