A Yucuna man overlooking Indigenous Lands in the Amazonian rainforest, where many languages are predicted to go extinct by the end of the 21st century (Image: UZH / Rodrigo Cámara-Leret) More than ...

For his latest book, “On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues,” photographer B.A. Van Sise traversed the United States to document speakers of endangered languages.

Seke. Wakhi. Yiddish. N’ko. Nahuatl. Lunaape (Lenape). These six languages are among the more than 700 languages spoken by New Yorkers across the five boroughs. What makes them unique is that they are ...

Half of the people whose first language is Kodiak Alutiiq have died over the last few years. The Alaska Native Sun'aq Tribe estimates fewer than 20 remain, but that is not stopping new speakers from ...

"I'm an Ashkenazi Jew," he continues, "so one of my ancestral languages is Yiddish, which today is natively spoken by no more than 10% of our community. Globalization didn't drive Yiddish into decline ...