The last native speakers of Miami-Illinois died in the 1960s. Two centuries earlier, Jesuits came to the United States and found two tribes — the Miami and the Illinois, which both shared a common ...

Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late ...

Gyani Maiya, one of the last speakers of Kusunda who was an ambassdor for the language, died in 2020. Now a younger generation is picking up the language to preserve the culture. Subhashish Panigrahi ...

A new interactive article for The New York Times Magazine captured one group’s efforts to document languages in peril. By John Otis Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind ...