"Dr Raukura Roa and Prof Tom Roa (2023) defined te reo trauma as 'the emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual harm felt by Māori individuals due to a lack of proficiency in te reo Māori.' It is rooted in the colonial history and .. [continuing] socio-cultural and economic disparities."

"’The three interviewees all illustrate the profound experiences of trauma associated with the absence of te reo Māori in their upbringing (…)’ all three of the interviewees have pushed through the reo trauma to continue learning to speak” #LangSky #linguistics www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

“There's an inequality. That's where I get frustrated and angry. I get sad … we keep losing Elders every day. And it's almost like everything's against us…” #Indigenous #language #rights #Canada #law #UNDRIP

My book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California (2023) is now open-access to read or download: escholarship.org/uc/item/59w3... Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social, where you can still buy lovely print copies (mitpress.mit.edu/978026254709...).

Job alert! 3 tenured research positions at CNRS, France with one preferably in philosophy of language Get in touch with a lab for more information #linguistics www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF...

new paper just out! An online sentence comprehension study in Pitjantjatjara, an ergative, free word order language doi.org/10.1080/2327...

“Our language was not dead – it’d been asleep” Carl McGrady www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

“A smartphone game is part of a push to save critically endangered Nyiyaparli in the Pilbara, while an NT radio station helps keep Yolŋu matha strong” #linguistics www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

“We weren’t really thinking that we would ever revive a language,” she says. “I think we amaze ourselves sometimes. There we were – not only were we as a people on the brink of extinction – but here we are now, a thriving people with our own language.”🥰 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

Why Indigenous Communities Don’t Celebrate Thanksgiving and What We Must Learn kgnu.org/why-indigeno...

Friday at 9am Hawaii - join us for the final session of the 2025 Language Documentation Learning Series! We’ll talk about Indigenous language revitalization, and how to find funding for this work. All are welcome, and this event (like all ELP programs) is free! Register at: bit.ly/langdoc2025

Our paper is now available at Glossa Contact! Cross-linguistic priming in comprehension facilitates change in adjective-noun order: Eye-tracking evidence from Romani-Romanian and Romani-Serbian bilinguals #linguistics www.glossacontact.org/index.php/gc...

I'm attending #LSA2026 online this year, AND they've let me put myself in charge of having virtual social opportunities, so if you want to socialize with me and other linguists at LSA (and I hope you do because I wanna hang out with linguists!) that's going to happen online too!

tuned into some of the nunavut election broadcast and it was so cool to see how seamlessly they switched between english and (what i assume was) inuktitut. we should really be hearing more of the indigenous languages in canada.

Rick Harp @mediaindigena.bsky.social tonight at the BFF symposium at UBC-Vancouver: "Indigenous language revitalization is climate change solution." A glorious possibility. And we have also to deal with oligarch nihilism for our planet and for all of the Peoples. Begin by disbelieving them.

Manitoba is expanding its degree programs in Ojibwe and Cree. This is an example of the good that can happen when you elect a progressive, indigenous leader to run things.

“the title of my book, is derived from the traditional way to give the morning greeting in Secwepemctsin - that's my family's language, my Indigenous language. We say tsecwinucw-k, which doesn't actually translate to good morning. It means you survived the night.” www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

The 2025 revitalization showcase from @e-l-p.bsky.social looks like it will be a wonderful celebration of different revitalization projects from around the world. Not the best timing for an Australian audience, but tune in if you're elsewhere. endangeredlanguages.com/event/ready-...

Mandana Seyfeddinipur talks about endangered languages www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

In honor of Indigenous People's Day, here's a very brief timeline of the revitalization of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. hilo.hawaii.edu/chancellor/s...

After an intensive two-year adult immersion program, the number of fluent Spokane Salish language speakers nearly doubled. Some of those program graduates will be hired on as full-time language teaching staff as the tribe expands its language revitalization efforts.

“We carry forward languages that were nearly lost. We raise our children with teachings that go back generations. We protect sacred lands and sacred stories. We organize, vote, protest, create, lead, teach, and thrive.” #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Rematriation is a short video series that centers the voices of 9 Indigneous women. It is led by an all women team, directors and producers, Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk) and Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida), cinematographer, Marie Cecile Dietlin, and multiple editors... #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Because I think better in pictures, here is a visualisation of languages according to documentation and endangerment status (I'm calling it glottocloud). glottolog.org/langdoc/status

The Irish subtitles for House of Guinness are a nice touch.

“Indigenous teenager teaches Paakantyi language to teachers at Menindee school” 👏🏼 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

“Aptly, the feuding families at the centre of the drama are divided in this retelling by language, with the Capulets speaking English and the Montagues Cymraeg.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Come be my colleague! UC Berkeley Linguistics has a tenure-track position in language revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022

wild fucking name, would love to see an indigenous linguist get this (grant for grad research)

It's by Josh Nilson, a Métis video game developer and founder of East Side Games and co-founder of Miskwā Games and MétisLife. They're using the popular gaming platform Roblox to teach Michif through a new game called Michif RP. Love that it is Native game developer doing it. #LangSky

📻 Environ 7 000 langues sont parlées dans le monde, mais celui-ci est dominé par une vingtaine de langues ! Qu'en est-il des autres ? Eclairage avec @evangelia.bsky.social, linguiste au LACITO @cnrs.fr sur @rfi.fr 👉 www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

The recently concluded Yoorrook Justice Commission found that the colonization of Victoria, which involved "massacres, disease, sexual violence, child removal, cultural erasure and linguicide," amounted to genocide. This thread provides the report's text on the loss of First Nations' languages.

Buried deep down the #BBC news website under ‘Also in the news’… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Job alert: two PostDocs to work in Paris on the semantic typology of shape, as part of the ERC Synergy project SHAPE www.ntnu.edu/shape/ emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... and emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #linguistics

Our database of the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is now available online! #linguistics abla.cnrs.fr/features/ abla.cnrs.fr/features/

And an excerpt from Endangered Languages that echoes with the experiences of so many speakers of minoritized and Indigenous languages #linguistics

“In prison I began to think in a more systematic way about language,” he told the Guardian in 2006. “Why was I not detained before, when I wrote in English?” He decided from then on to write in Gikuyu, that “the only language I could use was my own”. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

First paper in Glossa Contact exemplifies LVP with a case study from Abui (Timor-Alor-Pantar language family), spoken in east Indonesia. Consider submitting your own research! #linguistics www.glossacontact.org/index.php/gc...

Does anyone know of studies about priming with non-default (marked) word order? #linguistics

Australie: le gamilaraay, une langue aborigène menacée à l'étonnante vitalité #linguistics www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-paci...

Enquête chez les Saparas www.rfi.fr/fr/am%C3%A9r...

Enquête chez les Aïnous www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-paci...

Tomorrow I will be giving my keynote online. So grateful to the organizers for accommodating my needs. Let me tell you, such inclusive conferences are exceptionally rare!

Un article sera publié chaque jour basé sur une enquête autour d’une communauté

Je suis citée dans cet article sur les langues en danger chez RFI C’est la première fois qu’un journaliste qui m’interviewe ose ensuite écrire que la colonisation européenne en est la cause principale ✌🏼 www.rfi.fr/fr/monde/202...

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this! This Mouth is Mine, by Yásnaya Elena A. Gil transl. by Ellen Jones "linguistic diversity is and has been under attack in a larger culture that says bilingual is good when it means Spanish and English, but bad when it means Nahuatl and Spanish." #LangSky

What a great map this is, and what an awesome programme. Just reading the names of the languages makes me want to delve into their materials :) Interactive version on this website: www.eldp.net/en/our+proje... #LangSky 🐦🐦

Linguists! Get your nominating hats on and nominate students, colleagues, etc. for these awards! #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

Now in English the must-read book This Mouth Is Mine by Yásnaya Elena A. Gil charcopress.com/bookstore/th...

To paraphrase my brilliant colleague Amanda Holmes: researchers working with Indigenous communities often focus on the research product and outcome, neglecting the living, ongoing relationships that matter most. The way AI dovetails with broader “just make the product” cultural norms is infuriating