In a post on the Official Google Blog, Google today outlined the work it has done on a new initiative called the “Endangered Languages Project.” In partnership with the Alliance for Linguistic ...

What are the Jewish languages? Some are well known — Hebrew is the language of the Torah and of Israel, and Yiddish was the language of the shtetls and the great centers of European Jewish culture.

Google has launched The Endangered Languages Project in a bid to save historic languages from disappearing. The website encourages people familiar with said languages to collaborate with one another ...

An 84-year-old man in Assam, Bhogeswar Thomung, is the sole proficient speaker of the critically endangered Khamyang language. To protect such languages from extinction, the 'Endangered Language ...

For centuries in Iran, each Jewish community had its own language. Judeo-Iranian languages include Esfāhāni, Yazdi, Kermāni, Shīrāzi, Hamedāni, Kāshāni, Nehavandi, Borujerdi, Khunsāri and Golpāygān.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the award of 10 fellowships and 24 institutional grants totaling $3.9 million in the agencies' ...

The Laz Institute and İstanbul Caucasus Culture Association (İKKD) have published the "2021 Endangered Languages Calendar" as part of the "Endangered Languages Project." While the calendar has been ...

The Internet is all about communication, which is super, but unfortunately, it’s putting a lot of languages at risk of extinction by promoting more commonly spoken languages. It’s sad that we’re ...

Some 3,000 languages around the world are in danger of extinction. Many of them are seldom or never online, hastening their decline. But new courses and tools are coming to the rescue and may help ...

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.