In British Columbia, First Nations youth who speak their ancestral language are less likely to die by suicide. In Australia's Northern Territory, community-led language initiatives are linked to ...

For more than 300 years, the Monterey Bay area has served as a cultural and linguistic crossroads where diverse communities have met, mingled, and exchanged ideas. One of the lesser-known but deeply ...

Given how relatively recent this was, Moriori is an ideal testing ground for the possibility of reviving a language. Unlike many Australian Aboriginal languages which no longer have native speakers, ...

This story was originally published by Minority Africa and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing partnership agreement. Standing out within the Mau Forest ...

The Words of the People Rematriation Retreat brings together Indigenous language learners for a transformative experience focused on healing, cultural empowerment, and revitalizing endangered ...

National Breath of Life participants analyze archival materials at a National Breath of Life workshop in Washington D.C. in 2015. For many Indigenous communities, revitalizing a lost or nearly lost ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A Canadian tribal chief is calling for urgent efforts to revive indigenous languages, saying their extinction is going unnoticed while the world focuses on the preservation of ...

Ckunsa, an indigenous language in Chile, was declared dead 70 years ago. But groups in northern Chile are successfully reviving the language and teaching it to a new generation.

When her father began showing early signs of dementia in 2001, Aunty Bronwyn Chambers knew she had limited time to ask what she desperately wanted to know about his life. Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

The Minneapolis-based group ends one of its songs in Ojibwe, an indigenous language that scholars and educators are trying to save.