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Colonisation disrupted the passing of languages between generations. Across Australia, communities are rebuilding those connections—and the latest survey shows why the full story is more than a speaker count.
Read the story →“We’re having dinner” can be an invitation—or news about other people. Some languages make the difference explicit.
Read the story →Laz opens a bigger question: a recording can preserve a voice, but what makes room for the next conversation?
Read the story →From Esperanto and Volapük to English and French: the dream of a common language that unites people, and the questions that dream raises.
Read the story →Language diversity
Reading about language futures, connections between generations and the communities keeping languages in use.
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Laz ↗Laz opens a bigger question: a recording can preserve a voice, but what makes room for the next conversation?
Read the story →The letters on a Tbilisi street sign are part of a longer story—one that also lives in manuscripts and everyday writing.
Read the story →Choose a language. Discover its stories.
Points are representative locations, not language boundaries. Many languages are spoken across borders and by diaspora communities. Natural Earth.
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