To Thi Thu felt a deep sense of loss when her son could no longer express himself in Vietnamese after three years in Japan, enough to make her consider returning to Vietnam. Now 33, she had moved to ...

A 5-year-old names objects and animals in the Arapaho language in February 2017 as the tribe works to recover its culture and language on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. WhenIwas in grade ...

When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the  Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of ...

As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English would be the ...

Classrooms at Unalaska City High School are usually empty on Friday evenings as students and staff headed off for the weekend. But on one winter Friday, things were different. A group of people ...

Students wishing to learn a Native American language, and those who want to teach one, could soon find their goals easier to accomplish. The Oklahoma Department of Education is considering a rule ...

Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language, ...

It is often said that charity begins at home, meaning that our earliest values, morals, and identity are shaped within the family. In a similar way, language-one of the strongest carriers of history ...

A reader faults her husband’s relatives for not teaching their young children any English, which she worries may make for an awkward holiday visit.

Linguists give the lowdown on whether it is possible to forget your native language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A native ...