February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.
As of 2025, the world is home to more than 7,000 spoken languages, reflecting the incredible diversity of human culture and communication. Yet despite this vast number, only a small fraction of these ...
There are roughly 6,900 distinct languages spoken in the world. Since his days at Calvin, Don Hekman ’68 has paid a lot of attention to them. As the interim president of Wycliffe Bible Translators of ...