The audio is scratchy and distorted, sounding at times like it is being spoken through a wall. Yet the voice speaking is high and proud, with long, stretched syllables in English. When she breaks into ...

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This piece was written by Elaíze Farias and originally published at Amazônia Real's website, on April 19, 2023. It is republished here, with edits, under a partnership agreement with Global Voices.

Transparent Language Online partners with 7000 Languages to offer 17 indigenous and endangered language courses created by and for indigenous communities. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for ...

When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...

Australia’s historical and ongoing treatment of First Nations people is embarrassing, disturbing, and downright shameful. Our understanding of First Australians’ communities, culture and language is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Language, it is often said, is a window into the human mind. David Harrison experienced this firsthand as a young linguist in the ...

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 ...