Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo by Cronkite News) An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo by ...

Minority language revitalization encompasses a complex interplay of social, cultural and political factors that shape efforts to reinvigorate languages at risk of attrition. Central to this field is ...

A piece of history returns home to the Mohegan Tribe. Dartmouth College returned the Samson Occom papers last week, written by the Mohegan minister and academic in the 18 th century. Now, these ...

Whether you think artificial intelligence is the future or the destruction of mankind, AI is making global headlines as its development and investments continue to boom — and its reach isn’t as far ...

A $311,641 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will expand the work of Miami University’s Myaamia Center on revitalizing indigenous languages. The grant was awarded to Daryl Baldwin, ...

When he was a younger man, Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace had a vision. Wallace said he was told of three sacred bundles — one of which was the talking sticks, a tool of Indigenous democracy ...

A dedicated space for CHamoru language revitalization, I Sagan Finamta', was opened Monday during a ceremony to also proclaim Mother Tongue Day. The center has a recording studio to record CHamoru ...

As a linguist who works on Native American languages, I was certainly excited to learn that Feb. 21 is International Mother Language Day. Recognizing the strong link between language and culture and ...

Humanity’s linguistic heritage is experiencing unprecedented shifts, with an estimated half of the world’s 7,000 languages at risk of disappearing by the end of the century. Language endangerment ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An app to teach students the Navajo language. (Photo: Cronkite News) To support the revitalization, protection, preservation and ...