February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.

HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — A new study found that hundreds of asylum-seekers placed in the Migrant Protection Protocols program spoke 40 different languages, including several rare and ...

The U.S. Census Bureau tracks data on more than 500 languages spoken across the country, creating significant hurdles for public agencies tasked with equally serving all residents through the ...

New York isn’t just a haven for Christians from around the world; it’s also a sanctuary for their rare and dying dialects. On any given Sunday in New York City, an evangelical church of Guatemalan ...

Endangered languages are dying rapidly. Linguists are trying to preserve some of them By the end of the century, more than 40% of the world's estimated 7000 thousand languages are in danger of ...

Globally, an estimated 300 million people live with a rare disease. They typically experience isolation, diagnostic difficulties, lack of therapies, fragmented care, stigma, a struggle for recognition ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they do more ...

On average, every month across the globe, two Indigenous languages disappear, according to the United Nations. And 40% of the world's languages, mostly Indigenous, are threatened with long-term ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On April 4, Licho, one of the four last ...

A tiny village tucked away on Oman's Musandam coast is home to a rare language. Kumzari, spoken only by a few thousand people, survived centuries of isolation and sea trade.

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 ...