The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Thursday, appointed four professors under its Professorial Endowment Chair initiative to prevent the extinction of the Igbo language.

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 ...

SANJIAZI, China — Seated cross-legged in her farmhouse on the kang, a brick sleeping platform warmed by a fire below, Meng Shujing lifted her chin and sang a lullaby in Manchu, softly but clearly.

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 ...

A historian at the University of Ghana says language is central to the survival of culture and knowledge, warning that Ghana risks losing critical aspects of its identity if indigenous languages ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A dancer entertains guests during the opening of the 2023 Devolution Conference in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard] Language matters spiritually, culturally and emotionally.