It is believed that there are thousands of languages on Earth, but languages that are only spoken by a small number of people are at risk of extinction. Sociolinguist Erica Brozovsky explains when a ...

LANGUAGE is an integral part of the cultural heritage of an ethnic group. Any ethnic group that relegates its language is inadvertently doing incalculable damage to its culture. So, to preserve the ...

A considerable portion of human heritage is in danger of disappearing by the end of this century—an oral encyclopedia of medicinal practices in which the therapeutic and healing applications of ...