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NHK
30-05-2025
- General
- NHK
Young people breathe new life into Shanghai dialect
Fewer people are speaking Shanghai's dialect. Young language learners and a university's AI model are helping to preserve and carry on the region's unique tongue.
Washington Post
24-05-2025
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- Washington Post
Only 900 speakers of the Sanna language remain. Now Cyprus' Maronites are mounting a comeback
KORMAKITIS, Cyprus — Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the language Jesus Christ once spoke. The 97-year-old Skordis is one of only 900 people in the world who speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic, or Sanna. Today, his village of Kormakitis is the last bastion of a language once spoken by tens of thousands of people across dozens of villages.
Washington Post
12-05-2025
- Washington Post
After 250 years, we don't need an ‘official language'
Ross Perlin is a linguist, translator and author of 'Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.' To hear what this land really sounds like, go to Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai'i and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in northwest Wisconsin. Go to Mashpee on Cape Cod, Diné College in Arizona and Alaska's Kuskokwim River. Then go to cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Houston.
