Indigenous Languages Archives — Planet Word Museum The museum where language comes to life Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:47:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://planetwordmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-PW_Logo_BLUE_circle-2-1-32x32.png Indigenous Languages Archives — Planet Word Museum 32 32 Indigenous Languages Rising: An Urgent Call to Uphold Language Rights https://planetwordmuseum.org/indigenous-languages-rising-an-urgent-call-to-uphold-language-rights/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:42:45 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=10570 Languages are more than just words — they carry heritage, identity, and culture, ensuring they’re passed on to future generations. Yet many Indigenous and non-dominant languages face the threat of…

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]]> From the Andes to the Big Apple, Keeping an Indigenous Language Alive: Q&A with the Quechua Collective https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-andes-to-the-big-apple-keeping-an-indigenous-language-alive-qa-with-the-quechua-collective/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:57:34 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=8182 With up to about 10 million speakers, Quechua (also known as Runasimi, or “people’s language”) is the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas, and it is an official…

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]]> Balinese, Meet Wikipedia: Revitalizing a Local Language Online https://planetwordmuseum.org/balinese-meet-wikipedia-revitalizing-a-local-language-online/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:00:00 +0000 http://planetwordmuseum.org/balinese-meet-wikipedia-revitalizing-a-local-language-online/ Balinese has long been pushed to the linguistic margins. What can revitalize it for the next generation? Collaboration, flexibility, and wiki technology! So says Alissa Stern, who founded the BASAbali…

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