Big changes are on the horizon for a once small optional Tlingit language and culture program offered by the Juneau School District and Sealaska Heritage Institute. Each year for more than 20 ...

The Tlingit language is such an elaborate language. It needs to be lived: It is a living language — Vivian Mork Yéilk’ I was afraid. I sat down in the small chair, my knees bent upward. I set ...

Participants of the Tlingit Language Learners Group point to the ceiling during an exercise called Total Physical Response. (Photo by Lisa Phu/KTOO) ...

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.

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 mother and daughter from Yukon have been studying hard to join a group that's shrunk to just a few hundred people worldwide — those who are fluent in the Tlingit language.

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 ...

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 to be spread ...

The Tlingit Language Learners Group is an attempt at creating another space where people in the community can come to speak, listen, share, and learn," he wrote in an email.

I'm going to be behind the coach saying (foreign language spoken), you know, go get a ball in Tlingit. KELLY: Chester grew up hearing elders speak the language and began studying it herself in ...

JUNEAU — 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 to be spread and catch on ...

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 ...