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Combining Ecological Knowledge in Mayan Communities

Hilario Poot Cahun is building an environmental science curriculum in the Yucatec Maya language, giving Yucatecan children access to STEM in their ancestral language.

June 28, 2023

For the first time in centuries, the Corsican language is growing again

Reflections on International Mother Language Day

March 1, 2023

Finding Each Other: How Technology is Reconnecting the Mvskoke People

Julia Mainzinger is building an online curriculum for learning the Mvskoke language, expanding access for the next generation of speakers.

December 1, 2022

Reawakening the Taivoan Language

Benson Ko-Chou Fang is assisting a team of Taivoan language revitalizationists who are building the first-ever dictionary in their language, the first step to teaching and learning it.

October 12, 2022

Celebrating Wymysorys: Revitalizing a Language and Identity in Southern Poland

Tiöma fum Dökter is building the first-ever textbook for his language, illuminated by a corpus of mother-tongue oral histories, folk stories, and traditional music.

October 7, 2022

Tales of Dhofar Beauty: The Revitalization of Modern South Arabian Languages

Said Baquir and his team of South Arabian language activists are developing mother-tongue cultural resources for the Indigenous languages of Oman.

August 21, 2022

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