The Igbo language, a core pillar of identity and cultural heritage in south-eastern Nigeria, is experiencing declining usage among ...

The history of the Yuracaré can be told through their refusal to integrate with Bolivia’s colonial system. They settled on the border between the country’s mountain foothills and its plains and ...

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street through San Pedro de Atacama, a tiny town of adobe bricks and whitewashed plaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a whirl of billowing linen shirts, ...

Lagos politicians, including Lanre Sunmi Odesanya, Mrs. Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, Tolani Ali-Balogun and Moshood Mayegun yesterday called for the preservation of Yoruba language to prevent its extinction.

The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, John Azuta-Mbata, has cautioned that the Igbo language risks extinction if decisive and collective steps are not taken to revitalise it. He gave the ...

Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late ...

The Centre for Yoruba Language Engineering and 19 other associations have warned that the recent Federal Government’s reversal of the 2022 National Language Policy could endanger indigenous languages ...

Ziblim Alhassan Betintiche, has revealed that at least 40 Ghanaian languages are on the verge of extinction, warning that urgent and deliberate measures are required to preserve the country’s linguist ...

This series will highlight the personal journeys of language activists who are also Wikimedians, exploring how they are preserving, promoting, and revitalizing their languages through Wikimedia ...

Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction. It's -8C (17.6 F) and snowing heavily, but in Inari, a village in ...

International Mother Language Day 2026 celebrates youth-led multilingual education and honours the enduring power of mother tongues worldwide.