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The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion. This was the last major migration of people spreading out across the Pacific Ocean and, ultimately, settling Aotearoa.

Converting classrooms into an all English-speaking environment takes away children’s opportunities to develop crucial skills in their home languages.

English is important as a medium of instruction, but a regional language helps in practising medicine

Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp in his mother tongue Luganda.

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

A VARIANT of Scots has been put at the “global forefront” of the push to preserve endangered languages.

Country’s languages, dharma, culture, arts and history should be passed on to the future generations, says Union Home Minister

If Southeast Asia really needs to have official languages, choosing all the national languages of the ASEAN countries would be a prudent move.

From the fourth year of schooling, the majority of South African schools teach all subjects in English only. The devastating learning consequences of this for children who speak African languages at home have been compellingly captured in the documentary film Sink or Swim. These consequences include lack of conceptual understanding…