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How toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are saving an endangered Sámi language Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction.

A new article about how toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are learning an endangered Sámi language years after the end of boarding schools in Finnish only

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A good read and a hot cuppa tea in the fresh air – what’s not to like? 🍵☺️

The recommended read:

The #Balkan #Linguistic Area: Mapping Variation and Contact, by Evangelia Adamou @evangelia.bsky.social and Andrey N. Sobolev.

📗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111389936/html

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Webb says he has a different metric for measuring success.

“Happiness,” he says. “When we bring our children up to feel really good about who they are through their language and through their culture, then all other learning is sorted.”

#LangSky
#linguistics

The Australian school spearheading an Indigenous language revival At Gumbaynggirr Giingana Freedom School – the first Aboriginal bilingual school in New South Wales – success is judged by an unconventional metric: happiness

“Dozens of NSW schools teach Aboriginal languages but this is the state’s only bilingual school.
GGFS is open only to Indigenous students from kindergarten to year 8. They attend at least one language class every day and have weekly lessons on country.”

#LangSky
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"Dr Raukura Roa and Prof Tom Roa (2023) defined te reo trauma as 'the emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual harm felt by Māori individuals due to a lack of proficiency in te reo Māori.'

It is rooted in the colonial history and .. [continuing] socio-cultural and economic disparities."

Study shows the experience of Māori grappling with 'te reo trauma' The new report noted that this can manifest in various ways "including language anxiety and feelings of shame (whakamā) for not being able to speak te reo Māori.

"’The three interviewees all illustrate the profound experiences of trauma associated with the absence of te reo Māori in their upbringing (…)’

all three of the interviewees have pushed through the reo trauma to continue learning to speak”

#LangSky #linguistics

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New book presents legal argument for Indigenous language education rights The new book Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education is more than the author’s vision to return to a time when Indigenous languages flourished in Canada. Loren...

“There's an inequality. That's where I get frustrated and angry. I get sad … we keep losing Elders every day. And it's almost like everything's against us…”
#Indigenous #language #rights #Canada #law #UNDRIP

Cover of Andrew Garrett's "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California", with a picture of the first letter of the word Kroeber being removed from a wall

My book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California (2023) is now open-access to read or download:

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Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social, where you can still buy lovely print copies (mitpress.mit.edu/978026254709...).

Job alert!

3 tenured research positions at CNRS, France with one preferably in philosophy of language

Get in touch with a lab for more information

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Real-time thematic role assignment in Pitjantjatjara: an eye-tracking study Languages differ in how core argument roles are marked and in the cues guiding their real-time comprehension. This study investigated thematic role assignment in Pitjantjatjara – an Australian Pama...

new paper just out! An online sentence comprehension study in Pitjantjatjara, an ergative, free word order language doi.org/10.1080/2327...

At Boobera Lagoon, I dip my toes into learning a long-dormant language I’ve travelled to my grandfather’s tiny home town of Toomelah to discover how words, stories, country and culture intersect

“Our language was not dead – it’d been asleep”
Carl McGrady

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Nyiyaparli leaders are saving their language by taking it to young people where they are – on their phones A smartphone game is part of a push to save critically endangered Nyiyaparli in the Pilbara, while an NT radio station helps keep Yolŋu matha strong

“A smartphone game is part of a push to save critically endangered Nyiyaparli in the Pilbara, while an NT radio station helps keep Yolŋu matha strong” #linguistics

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The labour of love breathing life back into palawa kani – the lost language of Lutruwita Aboriginal children are being born in Tasmania today knowing the sounds of their ancient tongue. They are the first to do so for 150 years

“We weren’t really thinking that we would ever revive a language,” she says. “I think we amaze ourselves sometimes. There we were – not only were we as a people on the brink of extinction – but here we are now, a thriving people with our own language.”🥰

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Why Indigenous Communities Don’t Celebrate Thanksgiving and What We Must Learn

Why Indigenous Communities Don’t Celebrate Thanksgiving and What We Must Learn kgnu.org/why-indigeno...

Maroon bubble on top of a photo of a tropical forest. Text in bubble reads: “Language documentation learning series week 8: language revitalization and funding. Armando Molina Gomez and Violet King, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, 9:00 am Hawaii (UTC-10).” To the right are photos of Violet and Armando. At the bottom are the logos of the Endangered Languages Project and the Language Documentation Training Center.

Friday at 9am Hawaii - join us for the final session of the 2025 Language Documentation Learning Series! We’ll talk about Indigenous language revitalization, and how to find funding for this work.

All are welcome, and this event (like all ELP programs) is free! Register at: bit.ly/langdoc2025

Our paper is now available at Glossa Contact!

Cross-linguistic priming in comprehension facilitates change in adjective-noun order:

Eye-tracking evidence from Romani-Romanian and Romani-Serbian bilinguals

#linguistics

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I'm attending #LSA2026 online this year, AND they've let me put myself in charge of having virtual social opportunities, so if you want to socialize with me and other linguists at LSA (and I hope you do because I wanna hang out with linguists!) that's going to happen online too!

tuned into some of the nunavut election broadcast and it was so cool to see how seamlessly they switched between english and (what i assume was) inuktitut. we should really be hearing more of the indigenous languages in canada.

Rick Harp @mediaindigena.bsky.social tonight at the BFF symposium at UBC-Vancouver:

"Indigenous language revitalization is climate change solution."

A glorious possibility. And we have also to deal with oligarch nihilism for our planet and for all of the Peoples. Begin by disbelieving them.

Wab Kinew is with the University of Winnipeg and University College of the North. He says: “Every day, all of us speak indigenous languages - even if we don’t realize it. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Now we’re taking action to keep those languages alive. Starting in 2026, new indigenous languages degree programs at UWinnipeg and UCN will train the next generation of Ojibwe and Cree teachers. Let’s lift up our shared heritage and build One Manitoba for all of us.”

Manitoba is expanding its degree programs in Ojibwe and Cree. This is an example of the good that can happen when you elect a progressive, indigenous leader to run things.

'We Survived the Night' tells a story of survival and the Indigenous experience NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Julian Brave NoiseCat, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer, about his new book, "We Survived the Night."

“the title of my book, is derived from the traditional way to give the morning greeting in Secwepemctsin - that's my family's language, my Indigenous language.

We say tsecwinucw-k, which doesn't actually translate to good morning. It means you survived the night.”

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The 2025 revitalization showcase from @e-l-p.bsky.social looks like it will be a wonderful celebration of different revitalization projects from around the world. Not the best timing for an Australian audience, but tune in if you're elsewhere.
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Mandana Seyfeddinipur talks about endangered languages

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Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi! ʻŌlelo Resource of the Month: A timeline of significant milestones for Hawaiian language - UH Hilo Stories In the second of a new monthly column, UH Hilo Director of Native Hawaiian Engagement Pele Harman shares a timeline of significant milestones for Hawaiian language.

In honor of Indigenous People's Day, here's a very brief timeline of the revitalization of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.
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After an intensive two-year adult immersion program, the number of fluent Spokane Salish language speakers nearly doubled. Some of those program graduates will be hired on as full-time language teaching staff as the tribe expands its language revitalization efforts.

“We carry forward languages that were nearly lost. We raise our children with teachings that go back generations. We protect sacred lands and sacred stories. We organize, vote, protest, create, lead, teach, and thrive.” #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Rematriation is a short video series that centers the voices of 9 Indigneous women.

It is led by an all women team, directors and producers, Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk) and Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida), cinematographer, Marie Cecile Dietlin, and multiple editors...

#IndigenousPeoplesDay