When Alaska students learn to read in English, they aim to meet specific expectations and standards that measure their proficiency. Yet when they learn to read in their Alaska Native language — many ...

Scientists report that they have developed a new machine-learning system designed to overcome challenges encountered 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 ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone ...

Although certain core brain regions are involved in the processing of all languages, these regions show distinct activation patterns during the processing of different languages. The different brain ...

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 ...

The languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people whose native language ...

Explore what makes a language difficult to learn, from writing systems to grammar, with expert insights tailored to English speakers.

Your mother tongue may modify your musical ability. Speaking a native language that requires tones appears to boost perception of melody, but at the cost of rhythm, researchers report April 26 in ...