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Yolngu Album Tops Australian Charts
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has made history by becoming the first artist to top the Australian ARIA charts while singing in an indigenous language, just weeks after his death.
The late singer-songwriter, who was born blind,...
All Australian Languages Linked
New research has found a groundbreaking link between Australian Indigenous languages, demonstrating for the first time that they all descend from one common ancestor.
The unprecedented finding sheds new light on the origins of Australian...
Drums Amplify Speech Across Amazon
The Amazonian Bora people mimic the rhythm of their language for communication over large distances using drums
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary...
A Minority within a Minority
Elizabeth Jenner and Maria Konkel work with Mayan ELLs
Educational obstacles faced by immigrant Mayan English language...
Pakistan Has NOT Made Chinese Official
Pakistani and Indian media jumped on a story last month that Pakistan had decided to make Chinese one of the country’s official languages, in addition Urdu and English. According to reports, the Senate of...
Mayan ELL Resources
References
Aguilera, D., & LeCompte, M. D. (2007). Resiliency in Native languages: The tale of three
Indigenous communities’ experiences with language immersion. Journal of American
Indian Education, 11-36.
Ahmed, A. (2016). Step by Step on a Desperate Trek...
New Zealand Pushes for English as Official Language
A new bill has been submitted in New Zealand to make English the official language. New Zealand First submitted the bill. The nationalist, populist political party recently formed a coalition with the Labor Party,...
Taiwan to Offer Mother-Tongue K–12 Education
Taiwan’s government has approved a national language-development bill to protect linguistic diversity, which requires national language courses throughout preschool, elementary, and high school education.
At the moment, mother-tongue education is only mandatory in elementary schools,...
Comparing Child Languages
Clifton Pye suggests a comprehensive approach to crosslinguistic research
At the dawn of the modern linguistic era, Noam Chomsky stated that the central problem for linguistic theory “is essentially the problem of constructing a theory of language...
