In media coverage, individuals' membership in minority groups, such as their country of origin, is often explicitly mentioned. In contrast, majority membership is usually not highlighted. Does this ...

In August 2022, Statistics Canada released the latest census data on languages in Canada. According to the data, over nine million people — or one in four Canadians — has a mother tongue other than ...

Israfil Hummatov, a 71-year-old member of Azerbaijan’s Gryz ethnic minority, grew up speaking Gryz, a Caucasian language unrelated to the Turkic Azerbaijani. But as he looks at the younger generations ...

Every two weeks, one of the world's estimated 7,000 languages becomes extinct. It is estimated that only about half of our current languages will still be spoken in the coming century. When UNESCO's ...

The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country’s main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the ...

As part of International Francophonie Day and SFU’s Printemps de la francophonie, we are highlighting the profile of an alumnus of the Faculty of Education at SFU and a leader in British Columbia’s ...

China has passed a sweeping new law aimed at forging a "shared" national identity among the Han Chinese majority and the 55 recognised ethnic minorities, a move Beijing says will strengthen cohesion ...

Minority languages are often associated with aging rural communities, thought to have fallen out of use or confined to textbooks. Defined simply as a language spoken by less than half of the ...

The Ontario government’s proposed cuts to French-language services have elicited significant political backlash, including from within Progressive Conservative ranks and from the anglophone community ...

The Liet International, a competition for minority and regional languages, lacks the glitz of Eurovision. But its organizers say it helps keep endangered tongues alive. By Alex Marshall Follow live ...

A new study uses mathematical modelling to suggest two mechanisms through which majority and minority languages come to coexist in the same area. Over 6,000 languages are currently spoken worldwide, ...