News Headline

From the United Nations to the Arctic: Celebrating Indigenous Languages

Source
The Arctic Institute

Publication Date
2019-04-30

Protecting Indigenous languages is important, not only because it allows communities to maintain their traditions and livelihoods, but because languages are intimately tied up with questions of identity, tradition, cultural history, and memory. Perhaps most importantly, they allow knowledge to be passed on from one generation to the next.

Content
https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/united-nations-arctic-celebrating-indigenous-languages/