#NativeLanguages

2025-06-11

The Guardian (podcast): "From the archive: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature"

A thought-provoking meditation on language and identity.

theguardian.com/news/audio/202

#NativeLanguages #Kenya #NgũgĩWaThiongo

2024-05-27

On 27th May, Peru celebrates Native Languages Day. 2 facts about #Quechua:

Renata Flores Rivera blends pop & traditional in her Quechua language songs to help keep the language alive.

Roxana Quispe Collantes became the first person to ever defend a thesis in Quechua in 2019.

#Peru #onThisDay #nativeLanguages

2024-01-19

NYT: This Language Was Long Believed Extinct. Then One Man Spoke Up.

Blas Jaime has spent nearly two decades resurrecting Chaná, an Indigenous language in Argentina that he learned from his mother.

#Argentina #NativeLanguages #chana

nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/a

2023-10-09

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay to my fellow American immigrants, and to the folks who were here first!

#NativeAmericans #NativeLanguages #NativeAmericanLanguages #Languages #Languagestodon

Photo of a T-shirt. Text on shirt reads,

YOU'RE IN AMERICA, SPEAK AMERICAN

TRY ONE OF THE 381 INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN AMERICA BEFORE 1492.

LIKE LAKOTA, NAVAJO, OJIBWE, MOHAW SENECA, KICKAPOO, SHOSHONE, PIMA, APACHE, SALISH, OR MUSKOGEE.
2023-06-08

#UBC designed a #NewFont that allows characters from #Musqueam #Indigenous #language to be typed on computers & match formal institutional #font used on UBC documents/signs.
Most characters in Musqueam language's - #hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ - pronounced HUN-kuh-mee-num - aren't available on English language keyboard.

The new font is also capable of #typesetting the language of the #Syilx, a #FirstNation located in the same area as UBC's #Okanagan campus

cbc.ca/amp/1.6868283

#NativeLanguages #BCEducation

2023-03-11

@linguistics
#NativeLanguages #Languages #EthnicGroups #BajaCalifornia

The Kiliwa language (Ko'leeu Nyaha) is the most endangered #Mexican native language. It is currently spoken by 3 elderly persons in the State of Baja California, although the entire community consists of 11 individuals. The language belongs to the larger „Yumano“ linguistic group, which also comprises the languages of neighboring groups such as the Cucapá, Kumiai and Papai, all of them with less than 400 fluent speakers.

Kiliwa women of the State of Baja California, Mexico. Not all of them can speak their mother tongue.Two of the last fluent speakers of Kiliwa, the most endangered Mexican native language in the State of Baja California.Location  of the Kiliwa and other Yumano groups in the northern part of the State of Baja California, Mexico.

#introduction post for my linguistics account:

Hi! I'm Dash, I have my MPhil in theoretical #linguistics from UiT, the Arctic University of Norway.

My research interests are (adult) second/third/nth #languageAcquisition, #multilingualism and #multilectalism, #nativelanguages, and language revitalization. I'm primarily into #syntax.

My main account is @theklokwerkparallel where I'll probably talk about more general things!

2022-05-27

On 27th May, Peru celebrates Native Languages Day. 2 facts about #Quechua:

Renata Flores Rivera blends pop & traditional in her Quechua language songs to help keep the language alive.

Roxana Quispe Collantes became the first person to ever defend a thesis in Quechua in 2019.

#nativelanguages #27may #renataflores #peru #culture #language #speech

#idiomas #cultura #lenguasnativas #lenguas

Seachaint :verified:seachaint@hackers.town
2021-03-09

A good idea and well argued. Would love to see this picked up.
#gaeilge #nativelanguages
"Opinion: We should build a 'Gaelollscoil' in the Gaeltacht as a means of reviving the Irish language"
thejournal.ie/readme/gaelollsc

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