In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, ...

But for others extinction is a real threat. Indeed, as Adamou’s fascinating Endangered Languages (★★★★☆) makes clear, it is statistically more likely than not. Out of the 7,000 ...

This language used to be the most common one in the islands of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean, but now Lemerig is thought ...

According to the UN, at least 50% of the 7,000 different languages spoken around the world today could either disappear or become seriously endangered by the end of this century, leading to a ...

Technology is accelerating the rate of language disappearance, even while it offers the hope of preserving those that are endangered or extinct. A new crowd-sourcing platform aims to preserve the ...

Within the next century, linguists think, nearly half of the world’s current stock of languages may disappear. More than a thousand are listed as critically or severely endangered—teetering on ...

The Tohono O’odham language is at risk of disappearing, with far fewer people speaking it today. To help keep it alive, the Tohono O’odham Nation has opened the O’odham Ňi’okĭ Ki: Language Center, ...

Sociolinguist Erica Brozovsky explains when a language becomes extinct when there are no more speakers, and what can be done to protect languages from extinction. According to Brozowski ...