Native American Language Grant Program Accepting Applications Until Mar. 7
The purposes of the Native American Language Grant (NAL@ED) program are to support schools that use Native American and Alaska Native languages as the...
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Study Sheds Light on Passive Language Acquisition
According to a new study published in Scientific Reports, New Zealanders acquire a sort of passive understanding of Māori phonology and phonotactics, despite actively...
Indonesia to Digitize Indigenous Scripts
UNESCO and the Indonesian Internet Domain Registry (PANDI) have announced plans to work on digitizing the Indigenous scripts of Indonesia through an initiative called...
Card Game Aims to Revitalize Traditional Mongolian Script
The traditional Mongolian writing system—a vertical top-to-bottom, left-to-right alphabet—dates all the way back to the early days of the Mongol Empire. However, in the...
New Bipartisan Native American Language Bill
On October 30, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Native...
Let’s Talk COVID-19
Conversemos COVID-19 (Let’s Talk COVID-19) is an initiative produced by the Indigenous and Diasporic Language Consortium at the NYU Center for Latin American and...
New Dictionary Preserves Rare Indigenous language Umpithamu of Cape York, Australia
Jean-Christophe Verstraete, a professor of linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, worked closely with two sisters who were the last speakers of Umpithamu to...
Australia Hosts Twitter Takeover for Indigenous Languages
In celebration of the 13th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ALNF partnered with Twitter Australia to celebrate;...
Pandemic Highlights Importance of Indigenous Self-Determination: UN Rights Chief
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to ensure the world’s indigenous people have control over their own communities, the UN High Commissioner for...
Kiwis Celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori - Māori Language Week is an annual celebration of Te Reo Māori promoted by the Māori Language Commission...
Cherokee Nation Cartoon “Inage’i” Premiers Sept 4
A new Cherokee-Language Cartoon, created in a partnership between the Cherokee Nation, the Oklahoma Film + Music Office, and FireThief Productions, an independent film...
Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit’s Annual Language Award Seeking Nominations
An important part of Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit’s work an award program to recognize outstanding achievement by an organization, groups and/or individuals who are contributing...
New Zealand Pacific Language Teachers Appeal After Funding Cut
The New Zealand government has released a new 10-year Pacific education action plan which details the future of Pacific language education in the country,...
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