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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 ...

A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake We are lucky to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the ...

Every two weeks, a language is at risk of disappearing. According to the UN, at least 50% of the 7,000 different languages spoken around the world today could either disappear or become seriously ...

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 ...