Battle over Te Reo Māori Signs in New Zealand
Plans to introduce bilingual road signs throughout New Zealand have inflamed political tensions and heightened arguments over racial politics in the country’s election race.
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Brazilian constitution to be translated into Indigenous language
Brazil will soon have a copy of its 1988 Constitution in an Indigenous language.
A team of 15 translators are currently working on translating the...
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Battle over Te Reo Māori Signs in New Zealand
Plans to introduce bilingual road signs throughout New Zealand have inflamed political tensions and heightened arguments over racial politics in the country’s election race.
Last...
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Battle over Te Reo Māori Signs in New Zealand
Plans to introduce bilingual road signs throughout New Zealand have inflamed political tensions and heightened arguments over racial politics in the country’s election race.
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African Folk Tales Reimagined in Nine Languages
A set of newly reworked African folk tales is soon to launch on Netflix. The anthology of stories, retold by a new generation of...
Brazilian constitution to be translated into Indigenous language
Brazil will soon have a copy of its 1988 Constitution in an Indigenous language.
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Mix of Japanese-Indigenous Languages Survives in Taiwan
In the town of Hanhsi in the northeastern mountains here, where many of the Atayal indigenous people reside, a language resembling Japanese -- "Yilan...
Programs will help preserve Native languages, strengthen Native communities
As part of his ongoing efforts to help preserve Native languages, U.S. Senator Jon Tester recently secured grants worth over half a million dollars.
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New Zealand University Launches Indigenous & Māori Exchange Program
A new program has been launched at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, to increase the number of indigenous students studying abroad...
Everyday Native Builds Bridges Between Native and non-Native Youth
Everyday Native is the first collaborative teacher’s resource created by non-Natives and Native Americans to focus on the daily lives of Native youth. It sparks discussion...
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...
Yolngu Album Tops Australian Charts
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has made history by becoming the first artist to top the Australian ARIA charts while singing in an indigenous language, just...
All Australian Languages Linked
New research has found a groundbreaking link between Australian Indigenous languages, demonstrating for the first time that they all descend from one common ancestor.
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Drums Amplify Speech Across Amazon
The Amazonian Bora people mimic the rhythm of their language for communication over large...
British Columbia Invests $50 Million in Indigenous Languages
The government of British Columbia has...
Linguists Become Aware of Previously Unrecognized Indigenous Language in Malaysia
A language previously unknown to linguists has been discovered by Swedish researchers. The language, Jedek, is spoken by only 280 people on the Malay peninsula....
Taiwan to Offer Mother-Tongue K–12 Education
Taiwan’s government has approved a national language-development bill to protect linguistic diversity, which requires national language courses throughout preschool, elementary, and high school education.
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Students Create Music Video “Dreamchild” in French, English and Mowhawk
A new video created by students at St. Willibrord School in Châteauguay, Que, near...
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