UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or “language loss,” among bi- and ...

Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or "language loss," among bi- and multilingual speakers. Now, it's ...

There are roughly 7,000 languages spoken around the world. Indigenous groups speak more than 4,000 of them, despite making up less than 6 percent of the global population. These languages often hold ...