Every 40 days a language dies. Words, expressions and meanings are lost forever. The cause? Linguists point to how the loss of languages is...

By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

Khloe Cavanaugh learned some Dakota words from her grandfather growing up on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. He was one of the few fluent first language speakers on the reservation.

A new Dakota language dictionary recently launched in Minnesota represents a historic effort to preserve and revitalize the language by making it easier for young people to learn.

When Joe Bendickson was growing up, first on the Lake Traverse Reservation near the Minnesota-South Dakota border and then in St. Paul, he did not speak Dakota, his ancestral tongue. Few did.

New Yorkers rescue all manner of things – pets, people and lost things. This weekend, they have an opportunity to do something exceedingly rare: Help rescue a language.

In the land of 10,000 lakes, a language is in decline. "The estimates are there's less than 2,000 people left, within Dakota, Lakota country that are considered fluent speakers,"

A new app, which creators say is one of the largest dictionaries of its kind, will preserve and expand the use of the Dakota language one word at a time.

Preserving the Stoney Nakoda language is the purpose behind an ongoing project to create school resources to teach the language to younger...