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

For generations, Native American languages across the United States were pushed toward extinction through government policies designed to erase Indigenous cultures. Children were removed from their ...

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.

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 ...

The number of states offering native language assessments increased from 31 in 2020 to 35 in 2025. Alabama, Iowa, Oklahoma, ...

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 ...

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 ...

People who speak more than two languages are more likely to mistakenly use words from the language they're least proficient in, new research has shown. The study, led by Dr. Angela de Bruin, from the ...