Free Resources on Endangered Languages Archives

Cornish: How a “Lost” Language Became a Revival Movement

TL;DR: Cornish didn’t die; it was pushed out. Then brought back. After centuries of decline, people like Henry Jenner and

TL;DR: What if a language worked with almost no sounds? Rotokas proves it can. Spoken on Bougainville Island, the Rotokas

TL;DR: Kallawaya isn’t a language for everyday life. It’s a language for healing. Spoken by itinerant healers in the Bolivian

TL;DR: Yuchi is one of the rarest types of language on Earth: a true isolate with no known relatives. Spoken

TL;DR: Māori is more than a language. Its identity, ancestry, and connection to land. Born from Polynesian roots and shaped

TL;DR: Rural Bislama shows that Bislama is far more than a simple national creole. Outside Vanuatu’s towns, it shifts in

TL;DR: Tuwuli is a small but culturally rich language in eastern Ghana, and it’s at risk. Spoken mainly by older

TL;DR: Archi is an extremely complex and highly endangered language spoken in a small village in Dagestan, notable for its

TL;DR: Sarikoli is a critically endangered Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Pamiri people in the Pamir Mountains, traditionally passed

TL;DR: Makuva is a near-extinct Austronesian language once spoken in eastern Timor, now surviving only in fragments through elders’ memories,