Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction. Maaloula, in ...

Native languages across the country are on the edge of extinction. A report issued this year by the Bureau of Indian Affairs says the country may be down to fewer than two dozen by 2050. One tribe is ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. — Isaac Merritt and Kaydence Yazzie are the CCSD students who have earned the Navajo Nation bilingual seal of proficiency. Wednesday, the district and the Intercultural and Community ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Salish language is native to many of our local tribes in the Inland Northwest, but sadly, not many tribal elders are left who are fluent speakers. Marsha Wynecoop, is the Language ...

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Every week, Eugene Black Crow turns his apartment in North Philadelphia into a classroom. As the founder of the Lakhota Woglakapo Project, the 68-year-old offers free, one-on-one ...

In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San ...

A St. Paul public school focused on Hmong culture and language will remain at its current East Side campuses following a school board meeting Thursday that drew dozens of parents and students ...

FARMINGTON — A dual-language Spanish-English program at a Davis School District elementary school is safe, but the future of a French-English program at a district junior high school is at risk.