As the Miami and Lenape peoples are rebuilding their languages, they're gaining a better understanding of how their ancestors ...

Explore the deep cultural significance of language among Indigenous communities, with a focus on the Yavapai-Apache tradition.

Numbers of Choctaws who speak the native language have dwindled, but a program is designed to turn that around.

Japan continues to draw an unspoken but influential boundary — one that sorts and evaluates people according to whether they can speak Japanese “like a native.” Even highly proficient speakers often ...

In a worldwide first, a one-and-done gene therapy has been approved to treat a form of hereditary deafness. Many of the children treated can hear normally and speak.

A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake We are lucky to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the ...

Costa Rica’s native monkeys are facing growing pressure as forest loss, coastal development, and habitat fragmentation push several species toward local extinction. Three of the four monkey species ...

FAIRBANKS — Disagreements about the future of the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have spilled into public view as UAF leaders and current and former faculty trade ...

Lezoux Plate contains Celtic language. Credit: Helene Perdicoyianni-Paleologou / CC BY-SA 4.0 One of humanity’s defining features is the ability to speak in complex languages. Today, nearly 7,000 ...

Linguists across the state say Alaska’s primary research institute for Alaska Native languages is being starved of funding, and that its mission is at risk. But administrators at the University of ...

To the editor: Today this lifetime military veteran writes with great sorrow regarding our Gwich’in Athabascan Indian language and other Alaska Native languages “budget cuts at our state level.” At ...

Rudeness, whether real or perceived, can deeply affect cooperation, trust, and workplace culture. But judgments of what we consider rude aren't confined to specific disrespectful words or phrases—they ...