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At least 3,314 students, from elementary through high school, participated in an Indigenous language program at their public school in the 2022-23 school year. That’s over 1,000 more students than the previous school year and 2,500 more than in 2020-21, according to state data.
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Spanish and Swahili dictionaries are banned in Michigan prisons. An official says the ban is to prevent prisoners from being disruptive.
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First Lady Jill Biden and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland toured immersion program in Tahlequah to promote Native language preservation.
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At least 13 U.S. universities have shut down their Confucius Institutes, which are funded by China's government. Critics say the program could be used to recruit spies or steal university research.
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Many Tennessee high schoolers graduated in 2015 without meeting state requirements. How they did it reveals a disconnect between district and state expectations.
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In rural Uganda, "radio is everything," as one journalist puts it. So the U.N., hoping to hear more rural voices, used a tiny amount of data to build speech recognition software for new languages.
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In 1998, California became the first state to ban bilingual education. For nearly 20 years English-only instruction has been the norm. Proposition 58 could change that.
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Imotichey, who died Friday, grew up speaking Chickasaw, and called the language and the Chickasaw Nation's culture his "soul."
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With only 30 or so remaining native Chickasaw speakers — those who learned Chickasaw as a first language — the language has been considered critically…
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Many native languages are considered endangered, with few first speakers left to pass down the language to a new generation. But, a new generation of…