TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred ...

As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English would be the ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

According to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Alaska Native languages were the second-most common ...

Experience the fight of Native Americans to keep their languages and ways of life alive. Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret ...

As Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker wondered what play to produce for her first show running the Hawaiian theater program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, a book literally fell off the shelf and hit her ...

I met a man in the sauna at the downtown Duluth YMCA whose daughter is enrolled in the Misaabekong Ojibwe immersion program at Lowell Elementary School. She wants to connect more deeply with her ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...