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Indigenous Tribe in Amazon Rescues Language Through Education
The indigenous Umutina Tribe in Barra do Bugres in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, is teaching their tribal language to children in the village’s school after using Portuguese as the official language for...
Preserving All Scripts
The Missing Scripts program aims to preserve the rich diversity of the world’s languages and protect Indigenous scripts, ensuring their existence in the digital sphere.
Developed in partnership with the Script Encoding Initiative (University...
Report Calls for Alaskan Language Preservation Action Now
The Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council is calling for “an Alaska committed to increasing the number of Alaska Native language speakers and promoting common use of the languages.”
Instead of its regular...
Name Changes Seen as Plot to Expunge Afrikaans
South Africa’s government is on a name-changing spree—and that’s sparking a fierce language war and fierce feelings.
South Africa was colonized by Dutch settlers from the 1600s until 1994, and as a result, the...
Chinese ‘Linguistic Coup’ in East Africa
As part of its goal to displace American influence, China is winning linguistic hearts in East Africa (a bloc of 300 million people), by publishing the Xi Jinping Thought propaganda book in the local...
Ukraine Focuses on Minority Languages
Last month, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, in cooperation with the European Union and the Council of Europe, organized a round table event focusing on minority languages. The session, attended by...
Project Seeks to Preserve Syriac
Texas A&M University historian Dr. Daniel Schwartz and likeminded colleagues from around the world have been working to help preserve Syriac and its 2,000 years of cultural heritage, creating Syriaca.org, a cyberinfrastructure to link...
Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall II
Dual language education (DLE) programs are uniquely positioned to be models of culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy that can shape instruction of multilingual language learners nationally. However, to achieve this goal, DLE programs must...
UN to Promote News in Local African Languages
The United Nations (UN) is ready to partner with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to promote production of news in local languages across Africa, according to Ronald Kayanja, the director of the UN...
New Guidance to Honor ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
Following Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (February's Hawaiian Language Month), the U.S. Department of the Interior announced new guidance to preserve and also elevate knowledge and practice of the Hawaiian language.
A thorough new departmental manual chapter...
