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.

The language, which originates predominantly from northern Sweden, is now spoken by fewer than 30 people worldwide—and Barruk’s music is a beautiful way to experience it.

The National Librarian/Chief Executive Officer of the National Library of Nigeria, Prof Chinwe Anunobi, has expressed deep concern over the steady decline of indigenous languages globally, warning ...

Hungarian isn’t just difficult: it’s one of Europe’s most unique and fascinating languages. 🇭🇺 On International Mother ...

Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.

Every Feb. 21, the world pauses to honor something deeply human — the language we first learned to speak. International Mother Language Day is observed annually to promote linguistic and cultural ...

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

Christopher Lean receives funding from the Australian Government through the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (project number CE200100029). Andrew James Latham has been supported by a ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had "resurrected" the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that had been extinct for 10,000 years. Within two days ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment with courage and integrity, the corporate media ...