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UNESCO Sees Role of EdTech in Multilingual Learning
The theme of last month’s International Mother Language Day, “Using technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities,” raised the potential of technology to advance multilingual education and support the development of quality teaching...
Encouraging Spanish/Portuguese Collaboration
During last month’s Second International Conference on Portuguese and Spanish Languages (CILPE) in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, leading Ibero-American language experts came together to create an action plan to strengthen Spanish and Portuguese in...
Comprehensive Study Predicts Loss of 1,500 Languages
A comprehensive study warns that 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century. Published in Nature Ecology and Evolution (www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01604-y), the study, led by the Australian National University...
World Leaders Learn from Native Languages
World leaders at the COP26 climate summit in Scotland have been urged to shift their thinking about the climate crisis to focus on humanity’s integration with and dependency on the natural world—through an art...
Speaking of Migration
The recent discovery that Japanese, Korean, and even Turkish all evolved from language spoken by millet farmers just 9,000 years ago in what is now northeast China (see World, p. 16) demonstrates not only...
Mail Voting Forms Finally in Diné, Apache and Yup’ik
The US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has finally released national mail voter registration forms in Diné, Apache and Yup’ik languages. This is the first time the federal commission has released mail voting materials in...
English Hegemony as an Issue of Justice
(December 2021) Richard C. Benton Jr. argues that multilingualism is the birthright of all Americans
Feds Launch Multi-Agency Initiative to Preserve Native Languages
The U.S. Departments of the Interior, Education, and Health & Human Services have launched a new initiative to help preserve, protect, and promote Native languages. The initiative, created to bolster the Native American Languages...
Reclaiming Wôpanâak Language
(November 2021) Ayanna Cooper celebrates Native American Heritage Month with a vision of linguistic decolonization
Portuguese Museum Arises Like a Phoenix
Six years after it went up in flames, Brazil’s Museum of the Portuguese Language has reopened at the Estação da Luz station in the heart of São Paulo. The museum originally opened in 2006...
