President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English as the official language of the U.S. Tribes say "not so fast." ...

Language educators in Juneau are working to create a Master’s in Teaching program for Indigenous languages at the University of Alaska Southeast. It would be the first of its kind in Alaska.

A New Mexico charity is harnessing modern tools in the struggle to revitalize some very old and endangered languages. Of the more than 400 languages that were once spoken by Native Americans in the ...

Preserving Native American languages, reviving others and the technology involved in doing so are among the topics to be discussed Friday, April 22, at the Linguistics Research Symposium on American ...

The University Insider is The Daily’s first faculty and staff-oriented newsletter. This weekly newsletter will give U-M faculty and staff the ability to see the most important issues on campus and in ...

The Departments of the Interior, Education, and Health and Human Services have announced a plan to revitalize Native languages, addressing the federal government's role in erasing them through forced ...

A symposium to discuss the documentation, conservation and revitalization of American Indian Languages will be held Friday, April 17, at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Integrated ...

According to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Alaska Native languages were the second-most common ...

Ranking first on our list is Mandarin Chinese, with over 939 million native speakers around the globe. It is one of the most commonly spoken forms of Chinese in all of China. Moreover, it is the ...

There’s a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued ...