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High schoolers and college students dazzled judges with their Mandarin skills at Nigeria's biggest Chinese language contest. The event celebrates 55 years of friendship between Nigeria and China while opening doors for young Nigerians.
Nineteen Ethiopian university students wowed judges with Chinese speeches, martial arts, and traditional songs at the 25th Chinese Bridge Competition in Addis Ababa. Two winners will now represent Ethiopia at the global finals in China.
In Alice Springs, babies and toddlers are learning Pertame entirely without English, keeping an endangered language alive. The program is now expanding to become Australia's first total immersion Indigenous language school.
A student-led movement is rallying Ghanaians to speak their indigenous languages at home and in public before they disappear forever. Already, three languages have gone extinct, but a new campaign believes everyday conversations could save dozens more.
A young father is bringing a nearly extinct Indigenous language back to life through a bedtime story written for his sons. With fewer than 10 fluent speakers remaining, Braithen Knox's efforts could change the future of Gudjal language.
A Ph.D. student from the Isle of Man has built the first AI text-to-speech system for Manx, a heritage language spoken by just 2,200 people. The breakthrough could help preserve endangered languages worldwide while making them accessible to new learners.
International students hiked Germany's Elbe Sandstone Mountains while speaking only Sanskrit, transforming the ancient language into a tool for everyday conversation. The informal experiment showed how classical languages can describe modern experiences like steep trails, shared meals, and yoga breaks.
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A new smartphone app created with the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community is making the endangered Ojibwe language accessible to younger generations through stories, traditions, and cultural knowledge. With most of the 50,000 remaining speakers over age 70, the free app offers hope for preserving a language UNESCO lists as "severely endangered."
A man who never attended school just received India's highest honors for preserving a dying language spoken by fewer people each decade. Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat spent five decades writing poetry, textbooks, and radio programs in Balti, a vulnerable language losing 31% of its speakers between censuses.
A woman discovered her late father's mysterious 50-pound machine was the only MingKwai typewriter ever made. The 1940s prototype solved how to type thousands of Chinese characters and inspired today's digital keyboards.
A South Australian Aboriginal community is bringing the Ngaiawang language back to life after it nearly disappeared following colonization. Using 180-year-old word lists and community knowledge, they've compiled 800 words and are creating a picture book to teach future generations.
Children in Finland's Arctic villages are learning an indigenous language that nearly vanished. Just 30 years ago, only two families spoke Inari Sámi to their kids.
The Ga Traditional Council is calling for their native language to become a required subject in Ghana's capital region, with digital AI support to match. This cultural preservation effort could protect a key piece of West African heritage for future generations.
Two endangered tribal languages spoken by 60,000 people in north Kerala are being rescued from extinction through groundbreaking dictionary projects. The work captures more than 5,000 words before they disappear forever.
William Pacheco is using cutting-edge linguistics training at MIT to preserve Keres, his native language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people across seven New Mexico villages. His work bridges ancient tribal wisdom with modern science to keep his culture alive for future generations.
A Taiwanese woman and her Filipino husband brought the extinct Siraya language back to life after discovering their ancestral tongues shared the same roots. Now 45 teachers across Taiwan are teaching Siraya to children, and the community just won official recognition as Taiwan's 17th Indigenous group.
A new AI tool converts American Sign Language into speech and text almost instantly, opening doors for 70 million people worldwide who use sign language as their primary way to communicate. The technology works both ways, turning spoken words into sign language videos too.
Google just handed ownership of a massive African language dataset to African universities and researchers, not keeping it for itself. The move could help millions finally speak to AI in their own languages.
New brain research reveals that people who speak multiple languages show significantly younger brain patterns, with four-language speakers having brains that appear 13 years younger than those who speak just one. The findings suggest learning languages at any age could help protect your brain as you get older.
While big tech ignores most African languages, Morocco is building AI that actually speaks to the continent. The country's new minister is training chatbots in Darija, Amazigh, and dozens more languages that have been left behind.
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