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Languages are becoming extinct much faster than species. The digital divide can make it worse

Resurrecting Babel

A member of a non-profit committed to documenting all of the world’s 7,000 languages, explains why her organisation is on such a mission

Seven decades after independence, many tribal languages in India face extinction threat

To lose these indigenous languages means losing huge human capital and rich cultural diversity 

Linguists found the weirdest languages – and English is one of them

Some computational linguists have, however, used data in the World Atlas of Language Structures to explore which languages might be considered …

Africa: Why Uganda’s English language policy is failing rural children

Learners faced various challenges in learning and acquiring English

People on Vanuatu’s Malekula Island speak more than 30 indigenous languages. Here’s why we must record them

Vanuatu has been described as the world’s “densest linguistic landscape”, with as many as 145 languages spoken by a population …

Why we studied proverbs to understand emotion among Ghana's Akan people

They contain valuable cultural information that symbolises a specific society’s uniqueness

World Biodiversity Day: Why language should not be forgotten

Languages are a treasure trove of knowledge about a region’s flora, fauna and medicinal plants, say experts

Say it in Kazakh

Language>> government Employees • Kazakhstan

अंग्रेजी बनाम स्थानीय भाषाएं

अंग्रेजी की जगह स्थानीय भाषाओं में विज्ञान पढ़ाना कितना तार्किक और यथार्थवादी है? 

Linguistic nationalism

Language>> Politics • Kyrgyzstan

Word wars: Language copyright

It's becoming harder to exercise one's freedom of expression, even in the land of liberty. When at & t used the phrase "freedom of expression" in …

Vhat say

Two grumpy men

'Sustainable' most used word, says language monitor

Mother tongues

एक दिन हिंदी, अंग्रेजी बन गई

हिंदी फिल्में भी अब हिंदी में बनने लगी थीं और तो और हिंदी फिल्मों के गाने अब हिंदी में ही लिखे और गाए जा ...

Mother tongue love

Protest>> Language • Belarus

Bo out

Language>> BO • Andaman Islands

Shockwave over Iran

Over the years, overseas-based Persian language satellite tv broadcasters have won over the hearts of a number of Iranians. And to make matters …

The popular Hindi press

US's National Association for Colored people to bury 'Negro'

देशज भाषा में विज्ञान संवाद

इमेजिन प्रोजेक्ट ऐसी पहल है जिसका लक्ष्य वैज्ञानिक जानकारी प्रयोगशाला से बाहर ले जाना व ग्रामीण व मूल निवासियों से साथ साझा करना है। 

'Climate catastrophe' and not 'Climate change'

Even as a major British newspaper changes its terms for climate change, it is imperative that India, suffering the most from it, builds a …

“तटीय भाषाएं चुका रही हैं परिवर्तन की कीमत”

भाषाविद गणेश देवी ने ऐसे अनूठे भाषा सर्वेक्षण का नया खंड प्रकाशित किया है, जो भूगोल और लोगों के स्थानीय दावों पर आधारित है।