
To save endangered languages, tribes turn to tech
In a conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of new apps.

New guardian of French tongue is (gasp!) British
The newest official guardian of the French language has spoken: English, he says, is jumping the barricades and threatening the language of Moliere.

Poland campaigns to preserve its complex spelling
Polish language experts launched a campaign Thursday to preserve the challenging system of its diacritical marks, saying the tails, dots and strokes ...

Taiwanese linguist races to save dying language
Her eyes lit bright with concentration, Taiwanese linguist Sung Li-may leans in expectantly as one of the planet's last 10 speakers of the Kanakanavu ...

After long disdain, Jamaica gets 1st patois Bible
When English teacher Faith Linton first proposed translating the Bible into Jamaica's patois tongue in the late 1950s, most people who heard the idea ...