Tag: language revitalization
Māori Recognized in King’s Birthday Honours 2026
Māori recipients recognized in the King’s Birthday Honors 2026 reflect decades of leadership, service, and commitment to strengthening Māori communities, language, education, and governance.
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Awarded $9.2 Million Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant to Catalyze Ojibwe Language Revitalization
The grant will allow the project to focus on developing new support systems for adult learners, strengthen relationships with first-language speakers, expand immersion opportunities, and build long-term language infrastructure.
Revitalizing Canadian Indigenous Languages
Indigenous linguistic vitality is currently a large-scale undertaking in Canada. This article discusses the legal context, grammatical complexities, educational offerings, and technological challenges affecting Canadian indigenous language learning, access, and services.
How digitization helps preserve languages
With a significant round of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities going toward Native American language digitization projects earlier this year, along with several other recent projects to digitize indigenous languages across the world, it’s worth exploring how these projects can aid in language revitalization.
Native American tribes gather to kickstart International Decade of Indigenous Languages
Navajo, the most widely spoken indigenous language within US territory, is spoken by less than 200,000 people. In the coming decade, the UN plans to provide indigenous peoples with the support needed to preserve and revitalize their native languages.
TikTok Users Revive Secret African American Language
In the 18th Century, African American enslaved people developed a secret language that was used to encode private communication and also teach each other...
Language Revitalization Efforts Get Boost From Infrastructure Bill
In a meeting with President Joe Biden, the principal chief of Oklahoma’s Cherokee Nation Chuck Hoskin Jr. said that he believes the current administration’s...
Native American Languages Supported in two Senate Acts
The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has passed two bipartisan acts geared to strengthen revitalization projects for Native American languages, S.989 and...
Weekly Shorts | May 28, 2021
ZOO Digital Appoints New Head of Dubbing, EMEA
Ewa Zawadzka has stepped into the role of ZOO Digital’s head of dubbing for the company’s operations...