About 2,500 languages are in danger of becoming extinct according to Unesco, and some of them are spoken by only 30 people. By the turn of the century, it is estimated that at least 50 per cent of the ...

Europe is home to 200 languages in 50 nations but this graphic, created by Go-Euro, shows how it is losing its linguistic diversity. In Ukraine, there are only six people left who speak the Karaim ...

I don't believe in one universal language. We need to preserve cultures that are now dying! Human languages are more threatened than birds and mammals. Many linguists predict that at least half of the ...

Four British languages are under threat of extinction, unless drastic measures are taken to preserve them. A new map, showing Europe's 'endangered list' of languages, has highlighted the minority ...

At least half of the world’s languages are under threat, and we need more books to help. Teaching children about endangered languages matters. Unlike endangered species, endangered languages disappear ...

The report also warns that Scottish Gaelic and Welsh face a bleak future unless urgent action is taken to prevent them dying out in the 21st century. The warning came as the United Nations Educational ...

Celtic dialects from across Britain are featured in a new atlas of the world’s dead and endangered languages. Manx and Cornish have been declared “extinct” languages and Scottish Gaelic and Welsh will ...

Marriage is believed to be one of the main factors contributing to the disappearance of one of the many languages used in the African continent. Ongota is a language belonging to the Afro-Asiatic ...

I used to be quite 'darwinian' about languages - if they're obsolete, why should we mourn their demise? But now that I'm learning language number 12, I realise that languages teach us different ways ...

I used to be quite 'darwinian' about languages - if they're obsolete, why should we mourn their demise? But now that I'm learning language number 12, I realise that languages teach us different ways ...