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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This New App Created in Collaboration With the Rainy Lake Ojibwe Community Aims to Preserve Indigenous Language and Knowledge

The new app was created with the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community. Motorola and the Lenovo Foundation. A new free app aims to ...
Local News Matters on MSN

UC Berkeley's language archive breathes new life into endangered Indigenous languages

THE CALIFORNIA LANGUAGE ARCHIVE is the largest, most comprehensive physical and digital collection of records of Indigenous language materials in North America. Housed in the Department of Linguistics ...
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 ...
Phys.org

Indigenous languages: The pace of extinction is slower than expected—but still alarming

On average, every month across the globe, two Indigenous languages disappear, according to the United Nations. And 40% of the world's languages, mostly Indigenous, are threatened with long-term ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Interim Indigenous languages commissioner says she's participating in probe of office

OTTAWA — The interim commissioner of Indigenous languages says she knows her office has work to do on rebuilding trust with ...
Phys.org

How Mexican Indigenous languages are surviving against the odds

Being able to speak the dominant language wherever you are in the world has long been shown to be economically beneficial. This is particularly the case when you're looking for work. Being able to ...
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 ...

Motorola launches Indigenous Collections app for language and cultural preservation

Motorola announced the unveiling of its new Indigenous Collections app. This mobile app was created in conjunction with members of the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community as a means of chronicling and ...
The Conversation

National Indigenous Languages Day: Keeping languages thriving for generations to come

Indigenous languages are currently in crisis and Elders and language keepers are working tirelessly to document, teach and develop resources for generations to come. In an effort to reverse that loss ...
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, ...