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When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of their native languages. In recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S., The Conversation turned…

Salmon Rushdie described him as "one of the most important voices of his literary generation" and "an author who must be read". Booker Prize winner Marlon James speaks to Eve Jackson about his trilogy dubbed the "African Game of Thrones". The first book of the epic fantasy series the Dark…

The survival of Mauritania’s non-Arabic cultures, according to opposition groups, would be threatened by a law that they have pledged to continue demonstrating against. The Mauritanian government says that the new law, passed this summer, is a much-needed educational reform.

Removing radio broadcasts in several languages will severely damage Britain’s ability to promote its priorities and values

An initiative of the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation to identify and translate Tamil literary works into English and other Dravidian languages has picked up steam. Several books are set to be released around November

Corporation to end production of radio output in 10 languages, including Chinese, Hindi and Arabic, as it blames licence fee freeze

ICCR and Google are collaborating to improve the Sanskrit translation experience. This will help Google improve artificial intelligence for translating Sanskrit text to various other languages and vice versa. Read further on Dynamite News:

Kurdish leader has said that one of their negotiating counterparts in Damascus questioned whether the registration of Kurdi, the Kurdish language, in the Syrian constitution could one day lead to establishing whistled languages in Syria. The Syrian-Kurdish negotiator said there shouldn’t be an issue with whistled languages if they could…

Teach 'em in schools, put 'em on signs, whatever. There's no reason not to show the first languages of this land the respect they deserve.