The island of Sark – almost all locals speak English, but this is a relatively recent development - The Image Bank RF/Christophe Boisvieux One of Britain’s oldest languages has been recorded for ...

Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education has partnered with a school in Hawaii, Ke Kula Niʻihau o Kekaha, to publish hundreds of books in an indigenous Hawaiian dialect. NINA ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

Does learning a new language have to come at the cost of your native language? One common phenomenon in English-speaking countries is the loss of mother languages over the course of a few generations.

Because he is a graduate student, Keegan Livermore tends to get stressed out. Or, as they say in Ichishkíin, a dying dialect of the Yakama Nation’s Sahaptin language, he is wal’apxwipxwi. “It’s our ...

Four days a week, Micah Swimmer facilitates an all-day language session between young adults who are learning Eastern Band Cherokee and older, fluent speakers. He points to the back of his classroom ...

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...

Nestled between the fertile soil of the Central Valley and the steep mountains of the western Sierra lies the Tule River Reservation, an expansive region once home to tens of thousands of Native ...