A mixture of anxiety and excitement coursed through Keanini Aarona in the weeks before five Hawaiian crows, or ʻalalā, were ...

Floridians were enraged last summer when a viral video showed men offshore Panama City capturing a giant manta ray, a ...

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

For Estelle Balsirow ’26, language is more than a field of study: it’s a reclamation. Balsirow, a Kalmyk-American linguistics major, is one of the first Yale students to study Kalmyk — an endangered ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official processing and approval to reach their destination—New York City, already in sight.

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 ...

When every known speaker of the Amurdag language gets together, there's still no one to talk to. Native Australian Charlie Mangulda is the only person alive known to speak that language, one of ...

UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Tia Koerte grew up speaking Olelo Niihau, a dialect specific to the Niihau Hawaiian island, and knew she wanted to help preserve it. Niihau has fewer than 500 native speakers in the world, including ...