World 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 World 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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]]> Global Tongue Twisters: A Multilingual Journey of Fun and Fumbles https://planetwordmuseum.org/global-tongue-twisters-a-multilingual-journey-of-fun-and-fumbles/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:34:13 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=8531 Tongue twisters, delightfully challenging phrases that twist your tongue and tangle your words, are not only entertaining but also fantastic tools for improving language fluency and practicing clear diction. These…

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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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]]> Planet Word and Climate Change https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-planet-word-and-climate-change/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:55:56 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=6297 Recently, a friend doing research on the effects of climate change on a variety of organizations asked me how climate change had affected Planet Word. At first, I thought there…

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]]> Disputes on the Language Front https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-disputes-on-the-language-front/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:59:36 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=4929 In the lead-up to the U.S. presidential elections of 2020, it seemed like word usage and language were always in the news. What perfect timing for launching a museum of…

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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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