When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone ...

In many ways, Hindi fiction is more authentic than most English-language fiction about India. For one, contemporary Hindi ...

In 2021, the Bodéwadmimwen language was in danger of disappearing. The tongue traditionally spoken by Potawatomi Native Americans had only eight people who’d learned it as their first language, and ...

Duke will offer a series of Cherokee language courses this fall, marking the first time an Indigenous language will be taught at the University. Announced July 23, the course series begins in fall ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Chuck Hoskin Jr., Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, about the importance of preserving Native languages. Language is how we connect with the world. It's how we ...

Viewers who tune into the Super Bowl pregame show on Sunday will be treated to an unusual performance of “America the Beautiful,” which will be told, in part, through Native American sign language.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred ...

Linguists give the lowdown on whether it is possible to forget your native language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A native ...

When I (Nakamura) first arrived in the U.S. for a postdoctoral fellowship, the anxiety of speaking English struck the first moment I put my feet in the immigration hall at Miami International Airport.