CNET

Indigenous Peoples' Day: Learn an indigenous or endangered language with this app

Transparent Language Online partners with 7000 Languages to offer 17 indigenous and endangered language courses created by and for indigenous communities. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for ...
Alaska Public Media

Want to learn endangered Alaska Indigenous languages? There's an app for that.

Sealaska Heritage Institute’s new language games app. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Sealaska Heritage Institute released new language learning apps in X̱aad Kíl and Shm’algyack this month. The apps ...
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 ...
Alaska Public Media

Starting this fall, UAS will offer Alaska Native language courses for free

The main University of Alaska Southeast campus is located near Auke Bay in Juneau. (Photo by Bridget Dowd/KTOO) University of Alaska Southeast will offer some Alaska Native language classes for free, ...
Yahoo

Indigenous languages make inroads into public schools

Whenever November would roll around, James Gensaw, a Yurok language high school teacher in far northern California, would get a request from a school administrator. They would always ask him to bring ...
The Harvard Crimson

Learn Ainu, an Indigenous language from Japan, with Drops

Almost every 14 days, a language dies; that’s about 26 languages a year. And over 2,500 Indigenous languages are currently in danger of disappearing forever — that’s more than a third of our world’s ...
Yale Environment 360

Lector of Cherokee is Yale’s first faculty member in an Indigenous language

Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio ...
Yahoo

Teaching Indigenous Languages In Schools Is A Powerful Form Of Decolonization

A 5-year-old names objects and animals in the Arapaho language in February 2017 as the tribe works to recover its culture and language on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. WhenIwas in grade ...
Tulsa World

Indigenous language classes growing in Oklahoma public schools

OKMULGEE — Aurora Wells likes a challenge. A fifth-grade student at Dunbar Intermediate School, Aurora is taking Muscogee language classes on campus this fall through a memorandum of understanding ...
YES! Magazine

Centering Indigenous Languages in India’s Schools

On a warm April morning, in the minutes after roll call ends and before lessons begin, the classroom is buzzing with energy. It’s one of two classrooms in a primary school surrounded by sal trees deep ...

Give Hindi a chance: Lessons for Indian readers from New Zealand’s revival of the Māori language

In many ways, Hindi fiction is more authentic than most English-language fiction about India. For one, contemporary Hindi ...