Karur Vysya Bank, in partnership with the University of Madras, has inaugurated South India's first laboratory for the preservation of indigenous and endangered languages. This initiative seeks to ...

International Mother Language Day: Stories, Art & Community will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Redondo Beach Main Library, 303 N. Pacific Coast Highway. The event is free and open to ...

Nestled in the heart of modern-day Turkey lies Cappadocia, a fascinating region that is surprisingly rich in history and ...

International Mother Language Day is an important day celebrated around the world on February 21st each year. But why do we ...

Warble-duets seem linked to active territory-defense. Physical-fights in the wild were always preceded by warble-duets. Playback-experiments also showed that parrots increased warble-duets when ...

New research in the Strait of Gibraltar captured dozens of vocalizations from an endangered subpopulation of killer whales ...

In a desperate yet hopeful attempt to salvage the endangered languages of Assam, an initiative has digitally preserved audio, video, and textual records of these tongues. Led by Bhogeswar Thomung, the ...

Hah, Turkey -- In the stone-terraced fields of Hah, a centuries-old village in the historical region of Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey, Benyamin Aydin tends his crops much as his ancestors once did.

CU Boulder linguistics professor Andy Cowell holds a blanket he received at an honoring ceremony for him by the Northern Arapaho Tribe in 2018. For centuries, the Arapaho have called Colorado and ...

After Typhoon Merbok slammed into Western Alaska in 2022, some Yup’ik and Iñupiaq language speakers were confronted with unintelligible translations in federal disaster assistance materials. The ...

Andrew Cowell currently receives funding from National Science Foundation. Past funding related to the work described here has come from the American Council of Learned Societies and Hans Rausing ...