Language Documentation News Today

The author captures threads of a dialect by recording words for "Michipicoten" in an open-air meeting with community elders. John-Paul Chalykoff, CC BY-NDLanguage is foundational to Indigenous communities, including my own, and a vital connection to our cultures. It is well documented how residential schools in Canada and boarding schools in the U.S. devastated Indigenous languages and severed cultural connections. While our languages are in decline, efforts to sustain them are ongoing...

Dannielle Farrall received her master's degree in linguistics at the ceremony.

As part of an ongoing series, we’re spotlighting the contributions of University of Rochester faculty to their respective fields.