It remains to be seen how Saskatchewan’s new Accessibility Act will affect classroom teaching and services for deaf students in the province.
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Truly fostering accessible educational opportunities for deaf students can only happen with ongoing political and financial support.
A book written in Inuktitut. A lack of concrete constitutional guarantees, community credibility and long-term funding has rendered the government’s efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages largely ineffective.
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Critics have said the government’s efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages are colonial and do not engage with Indigenous Peoples on an equal footing.
The indigenous languages of Taiwan are struggling in the face of Chinese dominance. The answer to language revitalisation could lie in grassroots efforts rather than government legislation.
The Binung Ma Na Du Cultural Stories and Living Histories on Wakka Wakka Country project
Previous studies of baby talk have focussed on European languages, Mandarin and Japanese. For the first time, research looks at an Australian Indigenous language.
Black Ferns rugby star Ruby Tui after winning the 2022 women’s Rugby World Cup.
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Dion Enari, Auckland University of Technology and Sierra Keung, Auckland University of Technology
More Indigenous sports stars are speaking their mother tongues in TV interviews and elsewhere. The challenge now is to develop truly bilingual commentary teams to keep the ball alive.
Some have claimed the proposed new Indigenous names for Winnipeg streets are too difficult to pronounce. But what does it mean when we say a word is hard to pronounce?
A recurrent theme in the testimonies of Residential School survivors is how their cultural and linguistic identities were adversely affected.
Former Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Shane Gottfriedson, left, speaks as hiwus (Chief) Warren Paull, of the shíshálh Nation, listens during a news conference, in Vancouver, on Jan. 21, 2023.
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This new agreement finally allows First Nations to decide for themselves how the funding will revitalize their language and culture independently of the government.
Language policy in Canada suggests misunderstanding among government officials and the general public about language use, international language rights and their implications.
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Canada’s population is more diverse than ever, with many different languages represented. Government policy must reflect that diversity and offer meaningful support to minority languages.
Meiye Roy signs ‘What’s up?’ to her mother.
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Indigenous language instructors struggle to keep their languages from becoming lost.
Myaamia Heritage Program students get a lesson from Daryl Baldwin, executive director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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Indigenous people’s languages were largely lost as a result of forced assimilation efforts in the U.S. Here’s why one tribal leader says the languages should be brought back.
By some estimates only 5% of the world’s languages are likely to survive online.
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For most Québec residents, there is broad consensus that French should be protected. But many of us believe that multilingualism need not threaten French.
Associate Professor and Reader, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Research Unit for Indigenous Language, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne