Sometimes when people's short-term memories begin to falter, they recall the first languages that they learned.

Residents of the mountainous village of Antia in Evia, Greece "speak" a unique whistle language called Sfyria.

After two years in an immersion program, nine graduates are at varying levels of "conversationally fluent" in Spokane Salish.

Multilingual Cloud, a digital repository that houses the voices, words and stories of the country’s various ethnic languages, aims to ensure that our diverse languages are not erased by time.

An Igbo group, Igbo Woman Assembly, IWA, has raised the alarm that the spoken Igbo language may disappear in the next few years if nothing is done. According to the group, the number of Igbo people, ...

There are currently 7,164 languages worldwide; however, this number is decreasing each year. According to Ethnologue, a research center for language intelligence, about 44% of languages are endangered ...

SANJIAZI, China — Seated cross-legged in her farmhouse on the kang, a brick sleeping platform warmed by a fire below, Meng Shujing lifted her chin and sang a lullaby in Manchu, softly but clearly.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The first-ever feature film in the endangered Burushaski language, "Hun Dan: An Echo of a Dirge," was exclusively screened at the Islamabad Club cinema over the weekend, drawing an enthusiastic ...

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...