For the past decade, one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, square mile after square mile, has been my home: Queens, New York. The soundtrack outside my door is extraordinary: On ...

Words are coined and money talks, but the link between linguistics and economics is more than metaphor. Most notably, as Ross Perlin writes in his superb “Language City: The Fight to Preserve ...

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible ...

Seke. Wakhi. Yiddish. N’ko. Nahuatl. Lunaape (Lenape). These six languages are among the more than 700 languages spoken by New Yorkers across the five boroughs. What makes them unique is that they are ...

Language City, Ross Perlin’s fascinating profile of New York’s endangered languages, begins with a mention of another city’s fabled landmark, where linguistic diversity came to represent “nothing but ...

Mr. Perlin, a co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, has been researching linguistic diversity and language endangerment since 2006. He is the author of “Language City: The Fight to Preserve ...

On your way out the door this morning, you grabbed your Mexican-made jacket, your Italian watch, and your Brazilian coffee and headed for your Japanese vehicle while thinking Chinese take-out might be ...