Most people are aware that many common geographical names found throughout the USA and Canada have been borrowed from various ...

Native languages within the U.S. border account for about 245 out of more than 500 languages spoken on the North American continent, according to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American ...

For speakers of some of the most commonly spoken native languages like Quechua, Nahuatl or Guarani, the conversation is less about whether you speak Spanish but rather how Indigenous languages are ...

Essentially all Native languages are endangered to varying degrees. ADVERTISEMENT. Ofelia Zepeda has been working to revitalize Native American languages for decades as a Tohono O’odham poet, ...

One common phenomenon in English-speaking countries is the loss of mother languages over the course of a few generations. As the world becomes an increasingly interconnected space, economic pressures ...

A person's native language may shape how their brain builds connections between different hubs of information processing, a new brain scan study reveals. The observed differences in these langua.

Alaskan Native poet Joan Naviyuk Kane writes in Inupiaq, one of the languages spoken by the Native Alaskan people. Many of her poems are inspired by the sound or feel of one word; then, she "build ...

An Education Department regulation penalizes Fulbright-Hays applicants if they grew up speaking the language of their proposed country for research. Lawsuits have followed. By Erica L. Green ...