Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The island of Sark – almost all locals speak English, but this is a relatively recent development - The Image Bank RF/Christophe ...

When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank (Diné, Acoma Pueblo) worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of colonialism, boarding schools and broken treaty ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education has partnered with a school in Hawaii, Ke Kula Niʻihau o Kekaha, to publish hundreds of books in an indigenous Hawaiian dialect. NINA ...

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 ...

Nigerian singer Konga has claimed he was the inspiration behind Phyno rapping in his native Igbo dialect. During a recent interview on the Honest Bunch podcast, shared on X on Tuesday, Konga shared ...

When Alaska students learn to read in English, they aim to meet specific expectations and standards that measure their proficiency. Yet when they learn to read in their Alaska Native language — many ...

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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 ...