Researchers say many languages are dying
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When every known speaker of the language Amurdag gets together, there's still no one to talk to. Native Australian Charlie Mangulda is the only person alive known to speak that language, one of thousands around the world on the brink of extinction. From rural Australia to Siberia to Oklahoma, languages that embody the history and traditions of people are dying, researchers said Tuesday.
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About one third of amphibians are under threat of extinction in a new sign of the world&#39;s deteriorating environment, according to researchers who carried out a global census.
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A combination of poorer schools and a rise in local dialects has hurt English proficiency in the Phillipines.
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The extinction of whole species, once specific to isolated islands, is becoming a trend across continents.
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Europe's seas are in serious decline as a result of coastal development, fishing and pollution, warn scientists.
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Canadian scientists say much of their nation's northern tundra is rapidly disappearing, being replaced by trees and shrubs, forcing wildlife from the region.
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The number of 15 and 16-year-olds studying French and German dropped dramatically this year, official figures showed Friday, as experts said youngsters did not see languages as valuable.
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The annual study by the private Population Reference Bureau found that, while the world&#39;s population will increase nearly 50 percent by mid-century, Japan will lose 20 percent of its population in the next 45 years, while Russia, Germany and Italy will ...
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A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages.
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More than a quarter of New Yorkers   infected with the AIDS virus are now dying of other causes,   researchers said on Monday.
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By Steve Connor Many animals and plants threatened with extinction could be saved if scientists spent more time talking with the native people whose knowledge of local species is dying out as fast as their languages are being lost.
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Scientists believe learning a second language alters a part of the brain.
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Children's brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That's the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of deaf Nicaraguan children as they created their own sign language and then continuously tinkered it with each new group of signers.
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It may be time to stop defining death purely in medical terms, an academic argues.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker examines new figures which show a dramatic decline in the number of adult learners.
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A three-languages plan passed, but political, ideological, and economic forces will likely keep it from catching on.
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Many young people are throwing off their generationâs reputation for slovenly language, and taking up the gauntlet for good grammar.