Half the world’s population now speaks a type of Chinese, Spanish, or English as a native language. (French comes in 22nd.) That’s remarkable when you consider that there are 6,000 to 7,000 languages ...

A new interactive article for The New York Times Magazine captured one group’s efforts to document languages in peril. By John Otis Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind ...

"I'm an Ashkenazi Jew," he continues, "so one of my ancestral languages is Yiddish, which today is natively spoken by no more than 10% of our community. Globalization didn't drive Yiddish into decline ...

Taiwan is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world. A total of 26 languages are spoken on the island, which includes Mandarin Chinese, the official language, Cantonese, English, ...