Extinct languages offer us a glimpse into worlds that no longer exist. While there are those that left behind rich written records, others have faded so completely that we can only guess at their ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?

IIT-Patna inaugurated two new research buildings, funded by Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh under the MPLAD scheme, costing approximately Rs 17 ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or "language loss," among bi- and multilingual speakers. Now, it's ...

New research is challenging what we know about the death of the Cornish language. It has long been believed that the Cornish language became extinct with the death of Mousehole's Dolly Pentreath in ...

Discover the world's oldest written languages still in use. Learn about the rich history and enduring legacy of Sanskrit, Tamil, Hebrew, and more.

Tia Koerte grew up speaking Olelo Niihau, a dialect specific to the Niihau Hawaiian island, and knew she wanted to help preserve it. Email newsletter signup Sign up for our daily email newsletter ...

The news on Priya's phone screen felt like a ghost. It was a report of numbers: poverty at nearly 28 percent, jobless growth. These figures seemed as remote from her life in the Korail slum as the ...

The JICA forestry project has achieved success in reviving the rare and endangered tree species Betula utilis, also known as Himalayan Birch.

The review finds speaking traditional languages improves health outcomes, making the case for more revitalization work.

Few people have the opportunity to meet near-mythical beasts in real life — but Rob Timmins has. He’s one of the few biologists ever to spend time with a saola, a wild ox once known as the “Asian ...