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National Library Week is in Full Swing
National Library Week began on April 3 and this year's theme is "Connect with Your Library."
According to the American Library Association's...
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...
FY 2022 Language Resource Centers Program Competition
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education has announced the opening of the competition for the fiscal year...
Could French Prevail in Europe?
France’s European affairs minister Clément Beaune is taking advantage of France’s presidency of the European Union’s (EU’s) Council for the first time since Brexit...
UAE Launches Arabic Declaration
Last month, at the Expo 2020 Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, VP and deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
California Commits $3 Billion to Community Schools Strategy
Last month, California state superintendent Tony Thurmond announced the formation of an advisory board to help guide the work of the California Community Schools...
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...
Japanese, Turkish, and Korean Traced Back 9000 Years to China
The Transeurasian language family that includes Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Turkish, and Tungusic languages has had its origins traced back 9000 years, to early farming...
Catalan Curbed by Court
In the Spanish region of Catalunya, a court ruling over the language of instruction in schools may soon result in a a constitutional conflict....
