Day Care Aims to Teach Cornish to Toddle...

Cornish toddlers can now learn the Cornish language through a Saturday day care program at Cornwall College in Camborne. The program teaches the tots language through play while their parents take an adult Cornish language class. So far, according to the BBC, seven children have been registered for...

Bremen, Germany Hosts World’s Firs...

Bremen, Germany is holding a “Festival of Languages” which started on the 18th September. The festival celebrates all of the world’s 6,500 languages. According to this article it is the first of its kind in the world and will last 21 days. So, what does one do at a “Festival of Languages?”...

Recording Dying Languages...

Being a field linguist is a hard, if rewarding, job. You have to travel to far-off places, often isolated villages with few luxuries. Then, you spend a lot of time recording the sounds and words of endangered languages that few people still speak. In the past, most of the recording was done on tape recorders,...

International Mother Language Day...

The 21st February was the tenth International Mother Language Day. The day was officially named so by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). There are 6,000+ languages around the world and many of them are in increasing danger of becoming extinct. 2,500 languages...

Oldest English Words...

According to the BBC Reading University researchers have identified some of the oldest English words in the languages history. ‘I’, ‘We’, ‘Two’ and ‘Three’ are among the oldest known words, which could be thousands of years old. The Researchers have created a computer model, which can...

UNESCO to Release New Language Atlas...

Earlier today, the AP reported on UNESCO’s release of the third edition of its Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. The atlas is available online for free, and a print version will be released in May. The atlas maps the location and gives details about each of the 2,500 languages that...

Saving India’s Traditional Languages...

India is a large country that contains an incredible amount of cultural diversity. As the country continues its growth into a major economic power, the modern world has begun to creep into its small, traditional villages. This brings opportunity, but can also cause people to shed their traditional languages...

Native Arapaho Speakers...

On Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, the Northern Arapaho tribe is struggling to preserve its language. As with many Native American tribes, Arapaho children were forced into boarding schools started in the late 1800’s in an effort to make them more “American.” Of course, that’s really pretty...