Dan Sheena grew up speaking a dying dialect with roots going back hundreds of years in the Mideast. Now he teaches it to a ...

Winston Scott's twists and turns took him to the lush mountains of Guatemala, where he was introduced to the Maya people. Now ...

A WUWM listener asked why colleges in Milwaukee don't offer African languages as foreign languages. Marquette and UWM only ...

Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages project with one of its initiators Jan Bičovský.

More than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today and at least 3,000 of them, or 40 percent, are endangered. English is the most widely spoken language, with approximately 1.5 billion ...

In the vibrant tapestry of Papua New Guinea, over 840 distinct languages flourish, surpassing the combined total of Europe and North America. This remarkable linguistic diversity sprouted from the ...

In 2026, global language use is led by English, which ranks first when both native and second-language speakers are counted. With more than 1.5 billion users worldwide, English remains the dominant ...

After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, and approximately half develop more complex language, according to a new ...

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...

Nigeria is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, with over 500 languages spoken across its regions. Despite Nigeria’s multilingual nature, English is the official language. It ...

As of 2025, the world is home to more than 7,000 spoken languages, reflecting the incredible diversity of human culture and communication. Yet despite this vast number, only a small fraction of these ...