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Linguists have been predicting the death of Alaska Native languages for decades now, and whether or not those predictions prove accurate comes down to the choices you and I make on a daily basis. The past 200 years have been devastating; from boarding schools to disease to social discriminations, we are now left with the aftermath of successful attempts to destroy languages and cultures. But that does not mean we have to resign our efforts or just allow this to happen

The success of a Native American language immersion school is growing. The school has more students than it ever has and they are teaching their parents what they are learning.

It is said "love is universal." As Valentine's Day is celebrated today we thought it would be appropriate to share "I love you" in dozens of Native languages.

As the world becomes more integrated and China emerges as an economic powerhouse, Stafford Primary, the Stafford Primary School in Texas is ambitious to envisage its pupils a brighter future by teaching them Chinese language.

En republikansk presidentkandidat bør helst ikke kunne snakke et annet språk enn engelsk. Og i hvert fall ikke fransk. Det får Mitt Romney nå merke.

In 1993, Jessie Little Doe Baird had dreams in a language that her Wampanoag people stopped using more than 100 years ago. The new PBS film We Still Live Here shows how they brought their language back to life. Host Michel Martin speaks with director Anne Makepeace and Troy Currence, vice president of the Wopanaak Language Reclamation Project.

A family struggles to bring its ancestral tongue back to life

New Yorks politi overvåger muslimer, der skifter navn. Det har USAs indvandrere ellers gjort i århundreder

The 16th European Maya Conference is co-organized by the University of Copenhagen (Department of American Indian Languages and Cultures, Institute of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies), the Danish National Museum (Nationalmuseet) and Wayeb (European Association of Mayanists), and will be held from December 5th to 10th, 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark. A four-day Workshop (Dec. 5-8th) will precede a two-day Symposium (Dec. 9-10th).

Solvang har i år 100 års jubilæum, men først efter 2. verdenskrig blev det besluttet at gøre byen til en dansk udseende by, der hvert år tiltrækker millioner af turister.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta today returned to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center he championed as a congressman to praise the next generation of military linguists he called critical to the United States’ future.

It's the language that gave us the words for chocolate and tomato. Now a small group of New Yorkers wants to make sure the enigmatic-sounding tongue of the Aztecs, Nahuatl, is preserved in the Big Apple. "It's a beautiful language, full of complexities, but it's also dying," said Irwin Sanchez, 32, a native Nahuatl speaker. "I'm trying to rescue it, here in the city."

A U.S. radio broadcast in Swedish ends, but other stations feature foreign-language programming...