Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 16—Wordle conquered the English-speaking internet in January. Now, a version of the word puzzle has launched in Iñupiaq, ...

Starting an immersion program in an Alaska Native language comes with challenges: An educator often needs to create the curriculum and teaching materials themselves, and they sometimes need to work on ...

The number of fluent Iñupiaq speakers has declined in the last decade, but the interest in language revitalization has been growing, according to the results from a survey released last week. The 2020 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Britt’Nee Brower grew up in a largely Inupiat Eskimo town in Alaska’s far north, but English was the only language spoken at home. A new Inupiaq language option recently went live ...

For the Yup'ik and Inupiat people of Alaska, a spelling bee is more than a friendly competition. As Alaska Public Media's Katie Anastas reports, spelling bees are a way for kids to connect to their ...

A fourth-grader became the winner of the first ever statewide Iñupiaq spelling bee. Kopeck Kaitlin Alston is the first ever winner of the Inupiaq Spelling Bee. (Angie Alston) Competitors had a tough ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Britt'Nee Brower grew up in a largely Inupiat Eskimo town in Alaska's far north, but English was the only language spoken at home. Today, she knows a smattering of Inupiaq ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Britt’Nee Brower grew up in a largely Inupiat Eskimo town in Alaska’s far north, but English was the only language spoken at home. Today, she knows a smattering of Inupiaq ...