Stevi Frets and Max Pyles joke as they do the dishes at the S’unaq Tribe’s language house in Kodiak on Sept. 15, 2022. (Photo by Claire Stremple/KTOO) Half of the first language speakers of Kodiak ...

The first language a person learns is known as their native language and is usually a major part of their identity, shaping their earliest thoughts and connecting them with their culture and heritage.

Five years ago, in the heart of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, along the Canadian St. Lawrence River across from Montréal, Kanen’tó:kon Hemlock and Ieronhienhá:wi Tatum McComber pondered a question posed ...

Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of years to a single mother tongue. Languages as different as English, Russian, ...