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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 Sharpeville massacre, widely regarded as the inaugural event in the...
Alaska’s First and Second
Daniel Ward asks Brandon Locke and Victor Santos to discuss how Anchorage School District is leading the revitalization of the U.S.’ second-most widely spoken native language, Yup’ik, through an innovative dual-language program
DW: I understand...
Afrikaans Phased Out
South Africa’s University of Pretoria has begun phasing out Afrikaans as its official teaching language and replacing it with English. This move is the result of a 2016 decision made in response to student...
Japanese Teacher Certification to Ease Immigration Boom
Japan’s government is planning to set up a nationally recognized accreditation program for teachers of Japanese, to help improve the language education of foreign workers, as the country prepares for an immigration expansion.
The...
Global Voices: I Dream That My Language Lives
Over the course of 50 weeks in 2019, Global Voices plans to host 50 Latin American language activists on its @ActLenguas Twitter handle. This Twitter campaign began in mid-January and is now in full...
ALNF Living First Language Platform Wins at SXSW
The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF) won an award at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Innovation Awards in Austin, Texas in the Innovation in Connecting People category for the Living First Language Platform....
TIFF premiere: Sgaawaay K’uuna, the first feature film about the Haida people
By Leonie Sandercock Professor, University of British Columbia Originally published on The Conversation.
Sgaawaay K'uuna (Edge of the Knife), premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, is the first feature film about the Haida people...
Booksellers Donate Spanish Books to Refugees
The American Booksellers Association arranged for booksellers, authors, and publishers attending its Winter Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to donate Spanish-language books for refugees waiting at the U.S.–Mexico border.
ABA’s Libros Para el Viaje (“Books...
Languages, Plants, and People
K. David Harrison on Environmental Linguistics
This is the first of an ongoing series of articles that Language Magazine will be publishing to call attention to the importance of connections between language and environment
A walk in...
Heritage Values
Last month, the United Nations and people around the globe celebrated International Mother Language Day by focusing on the movements to restore the status of indigenous and heritage languages and other mother tongues, and...
