President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...

A study of polyglots found the brain's language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in -- and much more weakly to the speaker's native language. A new ...

For most of us, presenting confidently and clearly in our native language is hard enough. But communicating in another language is marked by unique challenges and opportunities for growth. Fortunately ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred ...

Halito, Chim Achukma (Hello, how are you?) Another Native American Heritage month has almost passed, and I hope it means something to everyone. In several days I’ll put away my beautiful, purple ...

OGDEN — While working on her clinical hours at the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico, Kendra Ellison noticed a disturbing trend. More and more elderly patients in the Navajo ...

The city of Cambridge unveiled the first of its new street signs Friday, displaying the street names in both English and the language of the Native Massachusett people. The project to add Indigenous ...