Eight areas of Japan were included in the most recent “red list” of endangered languages and dialects. Okinoerabujima island in Kagoshima Prefecture is one of the target areas, and concerted ...

Today, the Japanese government’s official recognition ... Still, Ainu remains one of the most endangered languages in the world. And while no app can single-handedly save a language from ...

Most of these are spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, and 90 percent of these languages are threatened with extinction by 2100. Two-thirds of the world’s endangered languages are found in Asia ...