There are currently 7,164 languages worldwide; however, this number is decreasing each year. According to Ethnologue, a research center for language intelligence, about 44% of languages are endangered ...

Gabriela Pérez Báez in the Zapotec community of La Ventosa, Mexico, works with children to document the lexicon and cultural knowledge associated with the flora of the town. (Photos by Gibrán Morales ...

Today Mexico is the world’s largest Spanish speaking country but before the Spanish ever arrived there were many flourishing pre-Colombian civilizations here and some of their languages have still ...

For most of human history, the survival of specific languages has relied on one generation passing it on to the next — a process that, in many speech communities, unfolds naturally. But, according to ...

TEOTITLAN DEL VALLE, Oaxaca, April 3 (Reuters) - Deep in the foothills of Mexico's Sierra Juarez mountains, Juana Lazaro washes her hands vigorously, lathering up to her elbows and scrubbing between ...