DINÉENA bizaad doo shi? Do you speak Navajo? If not, good luck running for the Navajo presidency. Chris Deschene has learned this the hard way. Mr Deschene was in second place in the polls before he ...

BEIJING, March 27 --With dark skin, large brown eyes, and a high-arched nose, Suo Lang Yang Jin, a junior at Peking University, can be easily identified as Tibetan. But her handwriting in Tibetan ...

Collins’ breakthrough production “My Partner” was filmed entirely in West Maui just prior to the deadly wildfire in 2023. He ...

Israfil Hummatov, a 71-year-old member of Azerbaijan’s Gryz ethnic minority, grew up speaking Gryz, a Caucasian language unrelated to the Turkic Azerbaijani. But as he looks at the younger generations ...

Veaceslav Balan is a member of the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre. Frederick John Packer receives funding from SSHRC. He is affiliated with a number of human rights ...

The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country’s main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the ...

Minority and heritage language communities are also a user base where there is less competition from other services, as opposed to the multitude of apps which claim to help you learn French or Spanish ...

Marquee languages definitely serve their purposes. But when you learn a minority language, like Romansh or Sioux, you become a member of a select group. Illustration by Eric Palma The reasons for ...

Jennifer Mattschey is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde and the Open University. When we talk about bilingualism, we often assume that people are equally fluent in both languages and use ...

A new study uses mathematical modelling to suggest two mechanisms through which majority and minority languages come to coexist in the same area. Over 6,000 languages are currently spoken worldwide, ...

Giving ‘preferred language’ option would slow down proceedings and potentially lead to challenges, senior officer said ...