Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the August 30 edition of Good Weekend.See all 17 stories. Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss ...

In Southern Italy, one of Europe’s oldest languages is on the verge of disappearing. Grecanico, a form of Ancient Greek still spoken in Calabria, has survived empires and centuries of neglect. Today, ...

Against the backdrop of southern Oman’s lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by just two per cent of the ...

With poetry and chants, Omanis strive to preserve ancient language In the misty highlands of southern Oman, where jagged peaks cradle the sky, a fading language clings to life through poetry. Under a ...

Salalah, Oman: Against the backdrop of southern Oman's lush mountains, men in traditional attire chant ancient poems in an ancient language, fighting to keep alive a spoken tradition used by just two ...

Sitting under a tent, poet Khalid Ahmed al-Kathiri recites the verses, while men clad in robes and headdresses echo back his words in the vast expanse. "Jibbali poetry is a means for us to preserve ...

Jason Momoa's 'Chief of War' has been entirely shot in Maori language while depicting the 18th century Hawaiian kingdom. Can more diverse, indigenous stories also be turned into cinematic spectacles ...