The ancestral languages of Ecuador and the Andean-Amazonian region clearly represent the resistance of Indigenous peoples to ...

However, a growing body of research shows that climate change is driving the loss of native languages worldwide—in big ways and small. Extreme weather events such as hurricanes and drought are ...

More was produced in her Indigenous language. Given the very real risk of the loss of language and traditional knowledge, my Tribe, the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, encouraged me and a number of others ...

The Language Conservancy recruits indigenous elders to document endangered ... Despite a year of unimaginable loss, efforts to save the world’s most endangered languages persist.

There’s a crisis unfolding in the field of linguistics: Global language experts estimate that, without intervention, about one language will be lost every month for the next 40 years. A study ...

While language loss is happening across the world, the costs vary strikingly in different places, according to a new study co-authored by Yale linguist Claire Bowern. Regions where all Indigenous ...

The extinction of a language results in the irrecoverable loss of unique cultural knowledge ... them a better chance internationally than their native language would. Odunsanmi, who also is ...

The cumulative result was the severe diminishment and, at times, complete loss of Indigenous languages across North America. That legacy set the backdrop for the formation of the Northwest Indian ...

The cumulative result was the severe diminishment and, at times, complete loss of Indigenous languages across North America. That legacy set the backdrop for the formation of the Northwest Indian ...

Nineteenth and early 20th–century written notes on spoken Native American languages are valuable in the effort to sustain and revive these languages after a long history of suppression and loss. Many ...

Audism is the belief that the ability to hear makes one superior to those with hearing loss. Mr Adams said studies show that revitalising Indigenous languages helps support the social and ...