STORY: No one else in the world can speak this language. Katrina Esau is the only known person fluent in N|uu. It's one of a group of indigenous South African languages all but stamped out by decades ...

NEW YORK - More than 700 languages can be heard on the streets of New York, but linguists say many are in danger of extinction. The Buddhist temple on 75th Street in Elmhurst is a gathering place for ...

A language that was declared to be extinct seven decades ago may be making a return. Ckunsa was the primary language of one of Chile's Indigenous peoples. As John Bartlett reports, today's speakers ...

Join Language City author and linguist Ross Perlin for a live talk about the endangered languages of NYC and the efforts to preserve them in a city where over 700 languages are spoken! - Discover the ...

AGNESS -- On the same riverbank where Army troops burned his great-grandfather's village in 1856, Gilbert Towner on a recent weekend was teaching his disappearing native language to a new generation ...

Language City, Ross Perlin’s fascinating profile of New York’s endangered languages, begins with a mention of another city’s fabled landmark, where linguistic diversity came to represent “nothing but ...

One of Chile's indigenous peoples is working to revive their primary language, which was declared extinct decades ago. In Chile, a once-extinct language is coming back to life SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A ...