Language is an essential part of human communication, allowing people to express ideas, emotions, imagination and much more. But even while speaking the same language, no two people sound exactly ...

The Latin language used to be spoken all over the Roman Empire. But no country officially speaks it now, at least not in its classic form. So, did Latin really peter out when the Roman Empire ceased ...

Latin is probably one of the best known extinct languages due to its influence on modern languages and its connection to French, Italian, and Spanish, and other languages. Since Rome fell, the number ...

These serendipities and clashes contribute to the powerful allure of the Biennale, where interest in this 56th edition was heightened by the appointment of Nigerian-born Okwui Enwezor as chief curator ...

HOMESTEAD, FL - Her name is Spanish in origin, but for Juana Sales, a migrant farm-worker from the Guatemalan high lands, it hardly reflects her cultural identity. Ten years ago, when Sales arrived in ...

A new book co-edited by Gabriela Pérez Báez, director of the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices program, examines language revitalization in Latin America and the challenges facing linguists who are ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Lake Forest elementary school leaders are having trouble finding Latin teachers for their second-graders. The more interesting question may be why they’re looking in the first ...

Every day, indigenous languages in Latin America are slipping away. Filmmaker Roberto Olivares captures Silvestre Pantaleón, a native speaker of San Agustín Oapan Nahuatl, making rope in a documentary ...

In March 2021, Motorola announced that it added support for two indigenous languages spoken in Latin America as part of a more significant push to make its products more inclusive and accessible. Any ...

Europe is today mapped in familiar languages—English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. Yet long before the spread of these Indo-European languages, a patchwork of earlier peoples spoke tongues ...