Forbes

For Indigenous Peoples, Language Is Life

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous Nations across the country like mine began to feel it’s disproportionate impact on our communities. Then, we started losing the most precious ...
The Harvard Crimson

Indigenous Language Reclamation Efforts Expand at Harvard

This summer, Amy E. Chalán Vacacela ’24 opened the course catalog and clicked straight to the Ethnicity, Migration, Rights offerings. When EMR 151: “Quechua, Indigenous language revitalization and ...
Los Angeles Times

Indigenous languages in California are facing extinction. Why I’m helping to save them

The root of my fascination with Indigenous languages can be traced to a rock band from Finland my brother listened to called HIM. When 12-year-old me heard them being interviewed in Finnish, I found ...
CNN

This Inuk woman is teaching her Indigenous language online to help others reconnect with Inuit culture

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Empowering the Next Generation: The Push to Preserve Indigenous Language

A collaborative effort between the Future Stewards Program and the RIT Department of Modern Languages and Culture has resulted in the Indigenous language and culture education, preservation and ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Indigenous verse in national anthem considered to preserve Aboriginal languages

Suggestions of including an Aboriginal verse in the national anthem and dual signage in New South Wales have been identified as ways of protecting Australia's first people's languages. The NSW ...
Salon

Effort to recover Indigenous language also revitalizes culture, history and identity

When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...
Daily Graphic

Preserving Ghana’s indigenous languages: Book industry as catalyst

To preserve, revitalise and promote Ghana’s indigenous languages through books, the Bureau of Ghana Languages is to provide ...
webtv.un.org

Saving indigenous languages

Among other things, the survival of a language depends on the prosperity and political influence of the community which speaks it Some five to seven thousand languages are spoken in the world today ...
news.ucsc

Reviving Indigenous languages: $600,000 grant honors the linguistic tapestry of Oaxacan immigrants in California

For more than 300 years, the Monterey Bay area has served as a cultural and linguistic crossroads where diverse communities have met, mingled, and exchanged ideas. One of the lesser-known but deeply ...
cursus.edu

Aboriginal languages that resonate

How to travel and discover a language in these difficult times when the summer of 2020 is shaping up to be tough for the tourism world? You had planned a trip, a language trip perhaps? But no, ...