endangered languages

Kenyan language activist Kennedy Bosire has co-edited an online dictionary of his mother tongue, Ekegusii, also know as Kisii.
Culture
American soft power has helped this Kenyan man’s efforts to ensure a future for his mother tongue
Students Andries Jacobi, Nienke Kooi and Fardau de Vries attend a trilingual (Dutch, Frisian, English) public school in Koudum in the Dutch province of Friesland.
Culture
The first cousin of the English language is alive and well in the Netherlands
Lakota
Justice
The Standing Rock Sioux are also fighting for their language
Laguna tribal members Jenni Monet and her grandmother June Sarracino.
Culture
How do you revive a language if tribal elders don’t want you to?
Myaamia Chief Doug Lankford (right), linguist David Costa (center), and Myaamia Center director Daryl Baldwin (left), watching a traditional Stomp Dance in Oxford, Ohio.
Culture
How the Miami Tribe got its language back
Anne Jimmie grew up speaking Ktunaxa, only to lose much of the language when she was removed from her family and placed in a boarding school. In 2006, the Canadian government compensated Jimmie and about 80,000 other First Nations people as part of a clas
Culture
A new generation of Canadians are learning this language, and not all of them are tribal members
Anne Jimmie grew up speaking Ktunaxa, only to lose much of the language when she was removed from her family and placed in a boarding school. In 2006, the Canadian government compensated Jimmie and about 80,000 other First Nations people as part of a clas
Culture
A new generation of Canadians are learning this language, and not all of them are tribal members
Third-grader Haveo Maka'imoku with her brother. Haveo learns entirely in Hawaiian at a school in Hilo, Hawaii. At home, she speaks Hawaiian with mother, who attended one of the first Hawaiian language pre-schools founded in the 1980s.
Culture
The World in Words live: From Ainu to Zaza
Ainu artisan Maki Sekine and her Japanese husband Kenji. Though he is not Ainu, Kenji Sekine has learned the language and now teaches it to Ainu and non-Ainu students.
Culture
In Japan, the Ainu language is largely unknown and unloved, but linguists are fascinated by its mysteries
Sign in Beirut celebrating the hybrid Arabic/French/English that many Lebanese like to speak.
Culture
Three mother tongues in one
Graffiti in the Welsh town of Machynlleth. Translation: Wales forever.
Culture
Welsh is considered a model for language revitalization, but its fate is still uncertain
Rose and Alfrits Monintja outside of their home in the New York City borough of Queens. The Monintjas are originally from the village of Sonder in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are among an estimated 100,000 people who speak the disappearing language Ton
Arts, Culture & Media
When New Yorker Rose Monintja speaks her native tongue, the memories flood back