The Caddo Nation of Oklahoma announced his death on July 14, describing Johnson as a "vital knowledge bearer of our language" and "treasured elder" The tribe plans to continue their work to preserve ...

Mithu Sanyal tried to reclaim her father's language, Bengali, as an adult (Credit: Carolin Windel) Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are fewer than 100 speakers of the Arapaho language today. Mark Makela/GettyImages I was hired at the University of Colorado ...

Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language, ...

Over the years, I have written several posts on the impact that major life changes can have on the languages of bilinguals. Events such as changing schools or employment, moving to another region or ...

Bilingualism has always been a major part of my identity. I grew up in Madrid, so Spanish is my native language, but my father enrolled my brothers and I into a school that spoke predominantly English ...

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language. When I arrived in Colorado, I decided I needed to ...