Tag: alaska
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...
Alaskans First to Receive Seal of Biliteracy in Native Tongue
The Lower Kuskokwim School District (LKSD) is roughly the size of West Virginia, with 22 schools spread across a remote area of Alaska’s Yukon...
Alaska Judge Orders Native Language Translations of Election Materials
U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason plans to conduct a 10-day trial this month, in a voting rights lawsuit to translate all election materials into...
Alaska Senate Passes Native Language Bill
The Alaska Senate voted this morning to make each of Alaska’s native languages, official languages of the state.
Twenty-one indigenous languages, including :Iñupiaq,...
Alaska Home to Rare Russian Dialect
Linguists to compile dictionary from septuagenarian speakers by 2014.
A Russian settlement in Alaska that became isolated from the Russian Empire when the U.S. bought...
