Worldâs Languages Dying Off Rapidly
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Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in this century.
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where public health systems, already weak, are now overwhelmed. &quot;There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable
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All of the people killed, and many of the thousands left homeless, by this weekâs earthquake in Japan were older than 65, reflecting the rising vulnerability of one of the worldâs most rapidly aging societies.
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TORONTO - The disappearance of hundreds of Western tourists in Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster has demonstrated - in a tragic fashion â-ow interconnected the world has become.
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Latin America has seen a decline in child mortality rate, but the situation in Iraq, countries of the former Soviet Union and those in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened over the
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Linguists see the computer as one important way of saving hundreds of languages in Africa, some spoken only be a few dozen elders.
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The region's booming growth has counterbalanced trouble elsewhere. But the long dry spell is taking a toll.
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The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
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A word game that has proved hugely popular with Facebook members could soon disappear.
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English is on the march through Europe, invading the languages of Moliere, Cervantes and Goethe, dominating the fields of technology and business and even taking some native tongues hostage.
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AS the 25-member European Union extends outward, it has developed a serious internal problem: it has nearly as many languages as members.
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Why 'Hinglish' is becoming hip in India, and may soon claim more native speakers worldwide than English.
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ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) - Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences,  vanishing foreign correspondents, concentration of ownership,  shrivelling papers...is journalism imploding? Can independent  journalism survive?
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Global understanding could improve dramatically over the next 10 years through the simple fact that by 2015, a good proportion of the planet's population will be able to speak English, according to a recent study.
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Children&#39;s brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That&#39;s the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of
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The steady exodus in recent years has become a hot topic in a land already saddled with one of the most rapidly aging and shrinking populations of any Western nation.
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Nicholas Ostler's history charts Latin's rise and fall. Harry Mount's short primer makes a passionate case for studying the language.