The Tlingit language class is continuing via Zoom, for free, for anyone interested. You can find information about the class, language resources and recordings of past classes at Tlingitlanguage.com .

A group of people in Juneau spend an hour every Monday practicing Tlingit. They bring dictionaries and flashcards, look at handouts and do language exercises. But this isn’t a class.Download Audio ...

Tlingit language and culture program expands its reach. The optional district program is extending to eighth grade, hiring full-time principal by Clarise Larson; Monday, February 6, 2023 6:02pm ...

This is a developing story. Kingeisti David Katzeek, clan leader of the Shangukeidí, founding president of the Sealaska Heritage Institute and a Tlingit language and culture professor died last ...

The Tlingit language also includes sound-alike words and words borrowed from or influenced by other languages. While there is no formal process for approving new words, there are efforts underway ...

Tlingit is spoken throughout southeast Alaska and parts of northern B.C. and southern Yukon. According to the Endangered Languages Project, it is "critically endangered," with only about 200 native ...

The Tlingit language is considered by linguists to be exceptionally complex. And the Tlingit people, who number about 25,000, have not been subject to the comprehensive ethnographic research of ...

The call to action from the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council urges systemic reforms to the state’s support and integration of Native languages.

Language student Roby Littlefield with fluent Tlingit speaker Bessie Cooley at the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s 2003 immersion camp in Sitka, Alaska. (Courtesy Sealaska Heritage Institute ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Tlingit language is still changing, as new words are coined for the modern, technological age. The Capital City Weekly reports that newly coined words need ...

As they stretch near half court Jessica Chester counts to 10 in Tlingit. JESSICA CHESTER: (Foreign language spoken). KELLY: Chester teaches Alaska native languages for the Juneau school district.

Tlingit is not considered an easy language to learn, as Mariella has discovered. "It has different rules of grammar and sentence structure, and it also includes a larger alphabet and sounds [than ...