Educating Students about the Lived Experience in Canada
Schools across Canada have recognized National Day of Truth and Reconciliation for two years to incorporate the legacy of residential schools into the classroom....
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South African and European Universities Form Consortium to Boost Use of Indigenous Languages
South Africa’s university system notoriously lacks instructional programs offered in the nation’s Indigenous languages, like isiXhosa and Sesotho. Currently, English and Afrikaans are the...
Comanche Nation Charters Dual-Language Academy
The Comanche Nation has begun enrolling students in the Comanche Academy Charter School in Lawton, Oklahoma. The charter school with include instruction in both...
Linguistic Diversity Declines in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea—frequently heralded as the most linguistically diverse place in the entire world—is in the middle of a language crisis. According to a...
Indigenous Language Institute to Host Webinar Series
The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) has announced that it will be hosting a webinar series to support its language communities while COVID restrictions are...
Indigenous Taiwanese Languages Now Available on Wikipedia
The overwhelming majority of the world’s languages have a very small presence on the Internet—just 35 languages make up about 99% of the content...
Russia Launches Project to Preserve Languages
The Federal Institute of Native Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation has announced an initiative to develop educational materials and revitalize indigenous...
Canadian Survey Reveals Youth Indigenous Language Loss
Statistics Canada has released the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey this month, and it sheds lights on Aboriginal language and culture across the country. The...
Canada Launches First Indigenous-Language TV Channel
A new, all-Inuit Inuktut language channel has been launched in Canada, serving as the country’s first channel broadcast entirely in an Indigenous language. Devised...
Indonesia to Digitize Indigenous Scripts
UNESCO and the Indonesian Internet Domain Registry (PANDI) have announced plans to work on digitizing the Indigenous scripts of Indonesia through an initiative called...
House Introduces Native American Language Resource Center Bill
New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland has introduced the U.S. House of Representatives companion bill to the Senate’s Native American Languages Resource Center Act, which...
Card Game Aims to Revitalize Traditional Mongolian Script
The traditional Mongolian writing system—a vertical top-to-bottom, left-to-right alphabet—dates all the way back to the early days of the Mongol Empire. However, in the...
New Bipartisan Native American Language Bill
On October 30, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Native...
