School pupils attend an Aramaic language course in Nicosia. In a village in northern Cyprus, a community struggling to save its ancient language has seen a glimmer of hope in intensified efforts to reunify the divided island.

One year after the first wave of Syrian refugees arrived in Canada, the Senate Committee on Human Rights will release a report today recommending steps to ease the resettlement process.

Joshua Hinson's first biological son was born in 2000. His son's birth marked the start of the sixth generation that would grow up speaking English instead of Chickasaw, which was the primary language his ancestors had spoken for hundreds of years. Hinson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Texas.

The Yaaku tribe, of Kenya's Rift Valley, number only around 4,000 people. And only seven people, all over the age of 70, can speak the tribe's native language, Yakunte, fluently. As the number of Yakunte speakers has dwindled, various efforts have been made to save the language.