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There's evidence deaf Hawaiians had been communicating with a homegrown sign language for generations, predating the arrival of missionaries, sugar plantations and the Americans who would overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893. But linguists didn't officially document the language until 2013, when research by the University of Hawaii found HSL to be a language isolate: born and bred on the Hawaiian Islands with no outside influence. More than 80 percent of its vocabulary bears no similarity to ASL. The findings launched a three-year project to document what remained of HSL, led by Lambrecht and linguistics professor James "Woody" Woodward, who has spent the last 30 years studying and documenting sign languages throughout Asia. By 2016, the team had built a video archive and developed a manuscript for an introductory HSL handbook and dictionary, featuring illustrations of Lambrecht demonstrating signs.

A writing of Bowling Green University professor Becca Cragin in which she explores the various ways sexuality is taught in the media, classrooms, and other social settings and what have been, in her experience, the most effective methods to inform others on the sensitive topic.

This article discusses how with a lack of youth speakers, a language can quickly die out. However, it shows how some individuals are trying to bring back dead languages using things like old texts and diaries. Universities are even starting to offer masters with a focus on language revitilization.