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University of Guam Wins Grant for CHamoru
The University of Guam will begin work to formally document and create a repository for the CHamoru language through a grant awarded to the College...
Multilingual Focus for UN Literacy Day
"about 40% of the world’s population does not have access to education in a language they speak or understand" Audrey Azoulay, director-general...
Scholar Self-Immolates Over Language Extinction
An academic activist, Albert Razin, died in Russia after setting himself on fire in a political protest about government policy surrounding his native Udmurt...
NZ Commits to Million Māori Speakers
Māori Development Minister, Hon Nanaia Mahuta, says New Zealand's commitment to ensure basic te reo is spoken by a million people in 2040 took...
Celebrate UN’s Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Language is focus of this year's event
UN Secretary General, António Guterres, released the following statement today to mark United Nation's Day of the World's...
Translation Commons Partners with International Year of Indigenous Languages
Translation Commons is a social-civil society partner of the
International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 (IYIL2019) and invites
volunteers to their joint projects.
According to UNESCO around...
Cherokee Leaders Declare State of Emergency
The three federally recognized tribes of the Cherokee people
have declared a State of Emergency for the Cherokee language. Officials from
the Cherokee Nation, Keetoowah Band,...
Welsh Speakers Urged to Create Digital Recordings
Welsh speakers worldwide are
being asked to help safeguard the future of the Welsh language by recording
their voices using Common Voice, an initiative run by...
South Africa’s Language Question Remains Unanswered
The governing African National Congress (ANC) held a rally in Sharpeville (suburban Johannesburg) on March 21 to celebrate Human Rights Day and to commemorate the 1960...
Crow Summer Institute
The Crow Summer Institute is occurring in Crow Agency, Montana, at the Little Big Horn College starting June 3rd through June 21st of 2019....
Preserving Endangered Poetry
To mark National Poetry Day, the UK’s National Poetry Library launched a project to collect and preserve poems in endangered languages.
Via an international callout,...
Māori People Find Representation in Moana
A new translation of the Disney film Moana has been released in New Zealand. The film was translated by New Zealand native who worked...
