Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued ...

INSIDE THE CALIFORNIA LANGUAGE ARCHIVE on the UC Berkeley campus sit boxes, recordings, field notes, grammar documents. They are the painstaking work of linguists and anthropologists who traveled to ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a windowless conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of new apps and screening for ...

Indigenous researchers and roboticists are crafting innovative tools to help save endangered dialects Serena Jampel Key takeaways: Keeping Indigenous languages alive More than a third of the world’s ...

Chuck Hoskin Jr., the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, addresses an Oklahoma House committee in November. Like many Cherokee Nation citizens of his generation, Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.

SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - For members of an Indonesian tribe visiting Seoul for the first time, the winter cold was beyond belief, the high-tech gadgets seemed to come from another world yet the ...

When he began recording the words of a Native speaker 40 years ago, linguist Noel Rude had no idea that his life’s work would form the foundation of the first dictionary for the Umatilla language.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...