Not all of Rome's linguistic children are thriving like Spanish or French. We shine a light on endangered Romance languages…
Colonial-era dictionaries and grammars, once crafted as tools of control to convert and assimilate Indigenous peoples, carry a profound irony.…
Journey beyond the familiar and discover languages that defy expectations, from a whistled language that echoes through Canary Island valleys…
Ever wondered about the difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic? This guide introduces the three living Gaelic languages—Irish, Scottish Gaelic,…
Deep in the Siberian wilderness, the Ket language is the last of its kind, a linguistic island with a mind-bendingly…
Imagine learning a language with no alphabet, no dictionary, and no textbooks. This is the challenge for field linguists who…
Journey to the coast of British Columbia to discover X̱aad Kíl, the Haida language. A true linguistic isolate with a…
Deep within modern Germany, a Slavic language called Sorbian holds onto a grammatical feature lost by almost all others: the…
Belgium's linguistic landscape is famously divided, but beyond French and Dutch lies Walloon, a distinct Romance language with deep historical…
What happens when a language’s last fluent speaker passes away? For the Myaamia people, this was not an ending but…
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