A map of Alaska's indigenous languages -- one that hangs in government buildings, schools, and offices around the state -- has been updated for the first time in almost 30 years by the Alaska ...

Alaska Native Language map. Source: Alaska Geographic Alliance. Click image for a larger view: At the time of contact with Russian explorers in the mid-18th ...

In a growing effort to put Native culture on the map, literally, the Southwest Alaska village of Alakanuk wants to change the spelling of its name. But it won't be any easier to pronounce.

A bill that would symbolically make 20 Alaska Native languages official state languages is heading to the House floor for a vote. ... Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska map by Michael Krauss.

The map, which shows the historic distribution of 20 different Native Alaska languages, was first produced in 1974 by the director of the language center, Michael Krauss. It has been updated since ...

Twenty-three Alaska Native languages have been recognized alongside English as official Alaska state languages for a decade, but until this month there was no measure by which its schools could ...

Most of the state’s 20 officially recognized Native languages are critically endangered, according to the UNESCO Scale of Language Endangerment cited in a 2018 report from the Alaska Native ...

Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the largest of the Alaska Native languages, with about 10,000 speakers in 68 villages across southwest Alaska. Children learn Yup’ik as their first language in 17 of ...

Yup'ik is the most commonly spoken Native language in Alaska, but Nikki Corbett couldn't find any Yup'ik books to teach her kids the language. She wanted to fix that.

Lawmakers added four Alaska Native languages to the state’s official language tally and renamed the council that advocates for their survival and revitalization on Friday. Members of the Senate ...