Language & Culture Archives - Terralingua

Apr 30 2025

Yarrabil: Finding Spiritual Connection and Revitalizing Language in First Nations Songs

By Chang Liu From the Field, News and Views

The intense spiritual connection that First Nations songs inspire is helping revitalize First Peoples’ languages in Australia.

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Mar 31 2025

Participatory Video: Indigenous Communities Are Using a Modern Tool to Revitalize Ancestral Ways

By Chang Liu From the Team, News and Views

Participatory video helps restore Indigenous communities’ links to — and pride in — their ancestral languages, traditions, and knowledge.

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Feb 15 2025

International Mother Language Day

By Chang Liu From the Team, News and Views

Our Mother Tongue is a river we can return to again and again.

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Jan 29 2025

From Disconnection to Connection: Can Traditional and Indigenous Worldviews Help Us Find Deeper Meaning?

By Chang Liu From the Team, News and Views

By immersing ourselves in traditional worldviews grounded in connection with the natural world, we can begin to heal ourselves and our planet.

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Nov 27 2024

What Is Linguistic Diversity and How Is It Linked to Nature and Culture?

By Chang Liu From the Team, News and Views

Understanding language and diversity can help bring about a new set of life-affirming values and promote a paradigm shift in how we think and act.

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Apr 22 2024

La huella de Cristino Lázaro Rojas, indígena bruncájc

By Chang Liu From the Field, News and Views

Una reflexión al pasado para un ordenamiento en el futuro.

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Mar 27 2024

FirstVoices Celebrates 20 Years of Indigenous Languages

By Coreen Boucher From the Team, News and Views

For Terralingua, the links between nature, culture, and language are inextricable, yet also vulnerable to the homogenizing effect of globalization and a handful of dominant languages. Diversity in all its…

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Jun 03 2020

A Tribute to George N. Appell, Champion of the World’s Oral Traditions

By Christine Schrum From the Director, News and Views

"Only by knowing how peoples in other times, other places, and other cultures have experienced and interpreted the human condition can we truly understand what it means to be human…

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