VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Many of the world's minority languages, some spoken by only a handful of speakers, are on the brink of extinction, and community activists and scientists are teaming to ...

More than 2,400 languages around the world are in danger of extinction, according to Unesco, and the US is second only to India in having the highest number of endangered languages. Sikumi is the ...

It's been known for years that some Native Americans and Russians share ancestors, and new research claims to have confirmed this link by discovering they also share language traits. Scientists from ...

At first glance, it looked like a set of black numbers and letters written in English, perhaps with some symbols included. "People had probably been looking at and passing by this for years, but they ...

Native American educators have travelled to Alice Springs to share a language revival method with Aboriginal groups. The Fluency Transfer System has helped Indigenous families in the US create fluent ...

The Caddo Nation of Oklahoma announced the death of Edmond Johnson on July 14 Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and pop culture for more than 15 ...