A declining number of states identify an American Indian or Alaska Native language among the five most common native languages of English-learners, dropping from 10 in 2012-13 to seven in 2013-14.

Blatt also mapped out common Native American languages, Scandinavian languages, Indo-Aryan languages (the dominant language group in the Indian subcontinent), and African languages.

A signed performance of “America the Beautiful” will feature Native American sign language, which thrived for centuries but is fading from memory.

This group of languages is believed to stem from a single common language 4,000 years ago, but isn't related to other languages spoken by Native Americans in what is now the US and southern Canada.

While the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has apologized to the Menominee Tribe and the family of a seventh-grader who was punished for using her native language at school, the girl's mother said ...