Indigenous peoples speak more than 4,000 of the world’s 7,000-odd languages. These native tongues function as so much more than a means of communication; they encode community histories, traditions, ...

Editor’s Note: The July 2024 issue of National Geographic is a special single-topic issue titled “Indigenous Futures,” focused on how Indigenous communities around the world are charting a new ...

Among other things, the survival of a language depends on the prosperity and political influence of the community which speaks it Some five to seven thousand languages are spoken in the world today ...

Brazil has more speakers of indigenous languages than it did in 2010. According to the 2022 census on indigenous ethnic groups and languages, released by the statistics bureau IBGE, the number of ...