Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of ...

As a post-pubescent teenager growing up on Detroit's Peterboro Street – just down the block from still-standing Burton Elementary School, recently turned movie and music theater venue – I spoke a made ...

As a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation and a language professor, I must take issue with Helen Rountrees's assertion that Native Americans lost their languages by "a natural process that happens ...

Follow filmmaker Brian Muna as he seeks to reconnect with CHamoru. Follow filmmaker Brian Muna as he seeks to reconnect with CHamoru, the language native to the people of Guam and elders in his family ...

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Post written by François Grosjean. One of the most intriguing questions relating to bilingualism is whether a language acquired in very early childhood, and then forgotten, is in fact still present.

You say puh-tay-tow, I say puh-tah-tow, but how did our ancestors use language millennia ago? Typically you’d ask a linguist, but manually reconstructing protolanguages — hypothetical early languages ...

Associate Professor in Linguistics and a Chief Investigator in the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, The University of Melbourne Remember cassettes? If you’re old enough, you might ...