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 ...

Ernest Siva, 84, is one of the last remaining oral historians of the Indigenous Serrano language. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) When Ernest Siva was a boy on the Morongo Reservation in ...

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

Chelsea T. Hicks and Claire Campo are leading efforts to revive Indigenous languages through the "Words of the People: Rematriation Retreat", an immersive event designed for 100 Indigenous language ...

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 ...

Native languages across the country are on the edge of extinction. A report issued this year by the Bureau of Indian Affairs says the country may be down to fewer than two dozen by 2050. One tribe is ...

Across the world, experts estimate that one language dies every two weeks, and with it, unique modes of communication, cultural knowledge, and religious practices. In the U.S.—as most tribal nations ...

Language researchers just released the latest version of the Ethnologue, which aims to catalogue the state of all of the world's languages, all 7,164 of them. Many of these languages are endangered.

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 ...

The program, along with other Indigenous Language programs at the university, faces difficulties as classes have been cut ...

Los Angeles has recently welcomed a slate of elected officials following the widespread outrage from the leaked audio recording that has exposed deep-seated, racist behavior within L.A.’s local ...