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NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost, as communities band together to help save them
With many of Australia's Indigenous languages at risk of being lost forever, leaders from more than 30 Top End communities ...
Indigenous people's health tightly tied to speaking their own languages, review finds
Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and ...
Aspiring Indigenous 'wise women' become UNESCO chairs to promote traditional knowledge
Two Indigenous women — one from Canada and one from India —are partnering to protect Indigenous knowledge and move toward ...
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UNESCO appoints Indigenous co-chairs to protect languages and knowledge amid climate crisis
UNESCO appoints Indigenous co-chairs to protect languages and knowledge amid climate crisis "A single word like 'X̱maay' ...
There’s an app for that: Inside the technological battle to save Indigenous languages
Indigenous entrepreneurs are creating websites, apps and online tools to preserve languages that are on the brink of ...
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Atayal language digital activist Tapas Katu: ‘Using Indigenous languages is completely normal’
Tapas Katu, Atayal language digital activist from Nantou (Courtesy of Tapas Katu. Used with permission.) ...
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More Oregonians speak Indigenous languages, but health care interpreters are lacking - OPB - Oregon Public Broadcasting
Indigenous-language speakers are a growing population in Oregon, raising the demand for credentialed interpreters for health care. And yet more are speaking languages for which interpreters can ...