This article summarizes existing work that indicates language maintenance and revitalization efforts result in health-related benefits for Native Americans and other indigenous populations. Although forced loss of ancestral language has been a feature of life in most indigenous communities since the first contact with Europeans, the pace of loss has accelerated in the past 50 years. Among the m...

Over the last century, the pronunciation of the Māori language has changed. An analysis of these changes indicates that the phonology of the dialect of English spoken in New Zealand is having a far-reaching impact on a number of aspects of Māori phonology. Implications of these changes for Māori language revitalization and the revitalization of other languages are discussed and preliminary deve...

Although the main goal of language revitalization is keeping a alive, expression ethnic identity and belonging not exclusively limited to linguistic phenomenon. In case Vilamovians – small group living in town Wilamowice on border Upper Silesia Lesser Poland, has been supported by people wearing Vilamovian folk dress. This was accompanied greater engagement young learning Wymysorys as well othe...

Language revitalization, oral tradition and epistemology are expressions of Native peoples intellectual sovereignty, and thus the foundation for indigenous intellectual property rights. As the people of California move towards language and cultural revitalization the question arises: What constitutes or constructs the definitions of intellectual property and how can appropriation of indigenous ...