How Digital Tools Are Saving Native Languages There are fewer than a dozen fluent first-language speakers of some Native ...

Does learning a new language have to come at the cost of your native language? One common phenomenon in English-speaking countries is the loss of mother languages over the course of a few generations.

Choctaw soldiers turned their native language into a secret military code that helped Allied forces during World War I.

The ceremonies honored the men who used a Native language the U.S. government once sought to repress to help win World War II ...

Although certain core brain regions are involved in the processing of all languages, these regions show distinct activation patterns during the processing of different languages. The different brain ...

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...

One of the oldest questions in the history of psychology is about how language influences the mind. Does the language we use impact how we see the world? We know that many of our mental processes are ...

Olga Kerameos ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House. I find myself using phrases like “lowkey” and “it’s not that deep” that just years ago were totally ...

Nestled between the fertile soil of the Central Valley and the steep mountains of the western Sierra lies the Tule River Reservation, an expansive region once home to tens of thousands of Native ...

The Alaska Native Language Center is at a pivotal moment. Longtime researchers warn that changes in staffing and ...