Once officially declared extinct after the death of its last native speaker in the 18th century, the Cornish language (Kernewek)…
While most languages belong to vast family trees, some stand utterly alone. These linguistic isolates, like the mysterious Basque of…
The death of a language is usually a slow fade, but Old Prussian was not so lucky. It was systematically…
Long before Nicaraguan Sign Language became famous, another sign language emerged organically on Martha's Vineyard. Due to a high rate…
Once the official language of China's last imperial dynasty, Manchu is now on the verge of extinction with only a…
What happens when a language's entire world can fit into a single room? We explore the most extreme cases of…
Long before English dominated global trade, the language of the Sogdians, an Iranian people from Central Asia, connected the great…
The narrative of Charles Darwin's voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, while famous for its contributions to evolutionary biology, is seldom…
Linguistics, in the simplest sense, is the study of languages. But what happens when the language itself has been lost…
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