The state of indigenous languages today mirrors the situation of indigenous peoples. In many parts of the world, they are on the verge of disappearance. The biggest factor contributing to their loss ...

For more than 30 years, the United Nations has helped support research positions at universities to delve into the most pressing issues facing humanity: climate change, sustainable development, peace, ...

OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 12, 2025 /CNW/ - The Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages (the Commission) today announced WAVES 2025, a Global Indigenous Languages Summit aimed at promoting, ...

When U.S. tech firm OpenAI rolled out Whisper, a speech recognition tool offering audio transcription and translation into English for dozens of languages including Maori, it rang alarm bells for many ...

Professor Michael Ajibola Abidoun, has warned that Nigeria’s indigenous languages are facing extinction if deliberate efforts ...

Languages are more than words. They are living vessels of history, memory and identity. To speak one’s mother tongue is to connect with the voices of ancestors, to carry forward centuries of wisdom ...

Join UNESCO and Translation Commons in an online event celebrating the International Translation Day! This year’s theme, trust in Indigenous translation, encompasses several layers: trust in the ...

In a remote Garo village, an elderly Indigenous couple lives by themselves. One day, they receive two letters—one from the forest department and another from their grandson. Their neighbour's son ...

Professor Michael Ajibola Abidoun, has warned that Nigeria’s indigenous languages are facing extinction if deliberate efforts ...

About 29 of Nigerian spoken languages are critically endangered with some like Njerep and Ichen, on the brink of extinction, the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) has said. NLN also unveiled a ...

Brazil has more speakers of indigenous languages than it did in 2010. According to the 2022 census on indigenous ethnic groups and languages, released by the statistics bureau IBGE, the number of ...

Indigenous languages and the stolen generations were another casualty of the 2002-03 federal budget. The $7.2 million previously allocated to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission ...