If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North ...
A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake We are lucky to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the ...
Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than information – it is curiosity, intimacy and cultural discovery One of my earliest assignments as a young ...