If parents don’t learn sign language, children may be deprived of language until they go to school. In this 2006 file photo, Doug Foley signs with his deaf daughter Hannah, then 20 months old.

New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. Parents hoping to raise bilingual children have long been given the advice to ...

According to a statement from the district, since 2018 the dual language program has seen a nearly 30% decline in enrollment.

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The entire language family is at imminent risk of extinction. Of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken by humans today, half will fall silent by the end of this century.

When a family loses a loved one due to another party’s negligence, the grief is often overwhelming—but for families with limited English proficiency, that grief is compounded by confusion, fear, and ...

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Of the Indian languages, I grew up only speaking Hindi. I had no idea what my family's second, regional language was. When I asked my father, his answer puzzled me.

An international team of linguists has developed a novel approach for testing genealogical relations among language families, revealing new insights into the history of languages native to the Amazon ...

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Indo-European languages form the largest family, if those who speak them as a second language are included — with 12 main branches ranging historically from northwestern China to western Europe.