Afan Oromo, a native language of Ethiopia, is being taught at Stanford for the first time this fall as a part of the Stanford Language Center’s African and Middle Eastern Languages Program (AMELANG) ...

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In the Greek island village of Antio, home to the world's most endangered language, aging residents communicate across hillsides through whistles, a specific system of communication believed to date ...

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One morning in December 2004, elders and children were wandering on the shore of Strait Island in the Bay of Bengal when one of them noticed something odd. The sea level was low, and weird-looking ...

Seke, one of the world’s rarest languages, is spoken by about 100 people in New York. By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura The apartment building, in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, is a hive of ...