In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, and the movement to learn it is growing. Ingrid Gaup braids dried "shoe grass ...

Proto-Sapiens refers to a theoretical common language spoken by the earliest humans. Discover how scientists and linguists reconstruct what we may have sounded like tens of thousands of years ago.

Language has always been at the heart of civilisation. It not only enabled communication but also preserved culture, religion, and knowledge across generations. Some of the world’s oldest languages ...

When journalist Conz Preti brought her three children to visit family in Argentina in 2022, her four-year-old son did something surprising. "He just started fluently speaking in Spanish with my family ...