developed in the 1960s at the Alaska Native Language Center, has 18 letters from the English alphabet. Many students are learning their ancestral language in immersion programs, and names on maps ...

It would be an honor to be recognized.” Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska map by Michael Krauss. (courtesy of the Alaska Native Language Center) While English is the only official ...

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. Corbett grew up in the ...

David Eastman. A bill by a Juneau legislator adding three Alaska Native languages to those officially recognized by the state, and expanding the size and role of an Alaska Native language council ...

Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency paperwork expecting to find instructions on how to file for aid in Alaska Native languages like Yup’ik or Inupiaq instead were reading ...

Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency paperwork expecting to find instructions on how to file for aid in Alaska Native languages like Yup’ik or Inupiaq instead were reading ...

and each must provide language assistance in at least one Alaska Native language. As per section 203 of the Voting Rights Act, which was extended in 1975 for covered jurisdictions, election ...

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 ...

A woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in the north-western US state of Alaska has died at the age of 89. Marie Smith Jones was a champion of indigenous rights and ...

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 ...

Currently, the Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the most spoken of the Native languages, with 10,000 speakers in 68 villages across southwest Alaska using it as their primary form of communication.