In the basement of a nursing home in Milwaukee, the world's best Latin lessons are given for free. That's where Father Reginald Foster, a priest who lacks patience, gives his lessons. He's managed to ...

Puma Tzoc was living in New York a decade ago when a friend asked him to help a client who had spent three months in jail. The client spoke only K’iche’, an Indigenous language from his native ...

A researcher has figured out why Latin still turned up in many documents in the 17th to 19th centuries, even though it had not been a spoken language for a long time. During that period, Latin served ...

Researchers found that in teaching English learners -- students who aren't fluent in English and often come from homes where a language other than English is spoken -- the Latin roots of words helped ...

When Angelenos voted in this year’s California primary, an important group was left out: speakers of Latin American Indigenous languages such as Zapotec and K’iche’, which are not among the 19 ...

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 ...

Duolingo, the popular free language learning website and app, has launched a Latin course to help its users say "salve" to Latin fluency. "Latin has long been regarded as a 'dead, read' language that ...

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 ...

For a response to this piece, read “The Liturgy Was Made for All People and Languages, Not Just Latin.” The Catholic Church often faces the perception that it cannot adequately respond to the social ...

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 ...