We have been inundated with announcements from UNESCO and other bodies that the Igbo language is endangered and may face ...

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 ...

Apex socio-cultural organization of the Igbo, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Thursday appointed four professors under its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lagos politicians, including Lanre Sunmi Odesanya, Mrs. Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, Tolani Ali-Balogun, and Moshood Mayegun on Thursday, September 26, called for the preservation of the Yoruba language to ...

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to ...

This series will highlight the personal journeys of language activists who are also Wikimedians, exploring how they are preserving, promoting, and revitalizing their languages through Wikimedia ...

The Centre for Yoruba Language Engineering and 19 other associations have warned that the recent Federal Government’s reversal of the 2022 National Language Policy could endanger indigenous languages ...

From the air, Accra unfurls as a restless sprawl of concrete, coastline and colour. Glass-fronted banks and diplomatic missions sit just minutes from canoe-lined beaches, where fishing nets dry under ...

Learning a new language, especially an endangered one, can be extremely daunting. I am currently attempting to learn Gaeilge (Irish) and it has been very difficult to find people around me who speak ...