Edmond Johnson, the last fluent speaker of an ancient Native American language, has died at age 95. The Caddo Nation of Oklahoma announced Johnson's death on July 14 and vowed to preserve the Caddo ...

Education advocates are launching a multi-year program to develop a game and to teach the Denaakk’e language in schools. That and another language teaching apps come at a time when almost all federal ...

During a White House meeting with leaders of African nations, President Donald Trump complimented Liberian President Joseph Boakai’s English pronunciation, even though English is Boakai’s native ...

Native languages within the U.S. border account for about 245 out of more than 500 languages spoken on the North American continent, according to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American ...

Essentially all Native languages are endangered to varying degrees. ADVERTISEMENT. Ofelia Zepeda has been working to revitalize Native American languages for decades as a Tohono O’odham poet, ...

For speakers of some of the most commonly spoken native languages like Quechua, Nahuatl or Guarani, the conversation is less about whether you speak Spanish but rather how Indigenous languages are ...

In this article, we will look at the 25 most spoken native languages in the world. We will also be discussing an overview of the language-learning market. If you want to skip our detailed analysis ...

NATIVEAM 310: Stereotypes and Native Languages is a Native American Studies and the Social Sciences course that explores how stereotypes about Indigenous communities affect how their languages are ...

Poolaw teaches both Kiowa Sign Language and his tribe’s spoken language in his classes at the University of Oklahoma, where he is an instructor in the Department of Native American Studies.

A person's native language may shape how their brain builds connections between different hubs of information processing, a new brain scan study reveals. The observed differences in these langua.