Indigenous peoples speak more than 4,000 of the world’s 7,000-odd languages. These native tongues function as so much more than a means of communication; they encode community histories, traditions, ...

How to travel and discover a language in these difficult times when the summer of 2020 is shaping up to be tough for the tourism world? You had planned a trip, a language trip perhaps? But no, ...

TAIPEI — Everything about pop star Abao is musical. Her earrings jangle as she talks, and her deep belly laughter punctuates her conversations. She spontaneously breaks into song while explaining the ...

Creative directors and founders of Z Puppets, Chris Griffith and Shari Aronson, pose for portraits with Grandmother Turtle in their south Minneapolis studio Thursday, March 10, 2022. The two perform ...

As with almost all kinds of other schooling, the pandemic forced some classes in Indigenous languages to shut down. But it's also spurred development of virtual options to reach and recruit students.

Translation and digitization projects are seeking to revitalize the Indigenous language. Kenny Wallace doesn’t have a lot of people to talk to in Choctaw. But he does have a Bible app with a new ...

Maïa Ponsonnet has received funding from the Australian Research Council (Australian) and from the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (France). UNESCO’s International Year of Indigenous Languages ...