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Language · April, 2022

Stories about Language from April, 2022

‘Defending life:’ Indigenous way of life imperative to solving climate crisis

Fighting climate change is not a lost cause for Nahuatl journalist Miryam Vargas

Written by Melissa Vida

27 April 2022

Shagz Chronicles: The Kenyan podcast that wants you to fall in love with the Kikuyu language and culture

Kikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) is a Bantu language spoken mainly in Kenya by about 6.6 million speakers

Written by Njeri Wangari

27 April 2022

Digitizing a language with two scripts: Satdeep Gill on growing Punjabi online

The internet is what we make of it

Written by Rezwan

25 April 2022

‘Ancestral medicine is wisdom, not witchcraft or folklore,’ says Ecuadorian philosopher

“It is essential that we return to ancestral wisdom”

Written by Belen Febres, Rasu Paza Guanolema

Translated by Alicia

21 April 2022

What it’s like to encounter the Frisian language in nearly every space in daily life, even online, in Fryslân in the Netherlands

Mirjam Vellinga promotes digital access to the Frisian language

Written by Rising Voices

19 April 2022

Meet Amrit Sufi, who is helping to bring the endangered Angika language onto digital platforms

Documenting oral languages and culture grows visibility for low-resource languages

Written by Rezwan

10 April 2022

The legacy of Chile's last Yaghan speaker lives on

Cristina Calderón may have been the last Yaghan speaker, but not the last Yaghan

Written by Anna Luisa Daigneault

8 April 2022

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Language · April, 2022

Stories about Language from April, 2022

‘Defending life:’ Indigenous way of life imperative to solving climate crisis

Shagz Chronicles: The Kenyan podcast that wants you to fall in love with the Kikuyu language and culture

Digitizing a language with two scripts: Satdeep Gill on growing Punjabi online

‘Ancestral medicine is wisdom, not witchcraft or folklore,’ says Ecuadorian philosopher

What it’s like to encounter the Frisian language in nearly every space in daily life, even online, in Fryslân in the Netherlands

Meet Amrit Sufi, who is helping to bring the endangered Angika language onto digital platforms

The legacy of Chile's last Yaghan speaker lives on

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