Language lovers and locals of an isolated mining region of the Ozarks are scrambling to preserve what's left of a dialect known as pawpaw French before it fades. The dialect once dominated this ...

The history of the United States is multilingual, and many non-English speaking communities have managed to maintain their languages, sometimes for hundreds of years. Here are six dialects of French ...

Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe On a recent morning in the southern ...

Most people know French dialects exist in the state of Louisiana, but few know there are French dialects native to Midwestern states, including Missouri. Old Mines, Mo., an unincorporated village in ...

In this June 14, 2014 photo, Dance Discovery members Rebecca Taylor, left, and Tim Hirzel join other members of the troupe in French colonial dance at the Felix Valle House State Historic Site during ...

Louisiana has a long history with the French language, and while most Louisianans no longer speak French, a growing number of schools are immersing students in it - all kinds of it. Member station ...

Louisiana has a long history with the French language, and while most Louisianans no longer speak it, a growing number of schools are immersing kids in it. At École Pointe-au-Chien, the focus is on ...

The race is on to chronicle the Norman language before it slips into extinction. A Cambridge University linguist is now studying the dialects of the Channel Islands - one of the last enclaves of ...

A distinct version of French is disappearing from the isolated Old Mines region in the Missouri Ozarks. Thousands of people once spoke pawpaw... Saving A French Dialect That Once Echoed In The Ozarks ...

Most Louisianans no longer speak French, but a growing number of schools are now immersing kids in it. At École Pointe-au-Chien, the focus is on... Louisiana has a long history with French. This ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading.