After hundreds of years of colonization and with languages disappearing around the world due to globalization, Keresan has an uphill battle to survive. However, there have been promising movements to preserve Native American languages in recent years.
Though English still dominates the internet, other languages are also widely used and should be targeted for translation and localization.
Did you know 42% of all known languages that exist today are endangered? Unfortunately, we have already lost dozens of languages to extinction in this young century. Here are just a few that we believe should be remembered.
The opportunity to access non-English content will only grow in 2022. Here are some of the shows and movies we are most looking forward to viewing on streaming platforms this year.
In contrast to most languages with few speakers, the Seri language has actually grown over the last century. While there were believed to be just 200 Seri people in the 1920s, as of 2015 it is estimated that there are between 600 and 1,000 native speakers.
With many ignorant of the fact that separate forms of sign language exist in different countries, there’s even less education on the different dialects that populate specific sign language families.
Yuchi is a fascinating language. It is not known to be related to any other language on the planet, and there was no written alphabet until the 1970s. But, as of 2014, only four first-language Yuchi speakers were still alive.
