1 A World of Many (Fewer) Voices -- 2 An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species -- Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words -- 3 Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning -- Case ...

Five or six languages die every year, experts say. Within two centuries, 40 percent of the world’s extant languages may be gone. These are sobering numbers for a linguist like Anthony Aristar, a ...

Latin might be a "dead" language, but it still has a lot of living potential. There are many reasons as to why Latin should be taught at schools and universities. “It is a window into a fascinating ...

To commemorate the International Year of Indigenous Languages, governmental, academic, and civil society institutions are engaged this year in a broad range of activities. One such event took place in ...