Myaamia Center Executive Director Daryl Baldwin testified in a virtual congressional briefing Wednesday about the importance of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding in helping preserve ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ojibwe, or Anishinaabe, people have faced enemies familiar to Indigenous people worldwide: Colonialism and imperialism. In North America, these forces arrived in the form of westward European ...

"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 ...