The Tlingit language includes 50 letters ... The institute is sending alphabet-card-and-CD packages to 15 Southeast Alaska language teachers. Others can use the online version or request copies.

The Tlingit language is such an elaborate language. It needs to be lived: It is a living language — Vivian Mork Yéilk’ I was afraid. I sat down in the small chair, my knees bent upward. I set ...

The other app, Learning Tlingit, has about 300 entries in three main categories—alphabet, vocabulary, and phrases. “One of the more difficult but super useful phrases for a beginning learner ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Tlingit speakers and educators are fighting to keep that language alive. As those at Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) put it, creating new speakers will be key in ...

Cherish Clarke grew up hearing the Tlingit language spoken, but it was years before she fully grasped how special that was. "I was really grateful that I was, I think, one of the last generation ...

The other app teaches users the basics, including the Tlingit alphabet, vocabulary and phrases within the language. Hotch, who said she’s not a fluent speaker herself, tried to pick entries that ...

Then last year, Clarke asked if Mariella wanted to learn Tlingit with her. "I was like, 'Sure, let's do it,'" Mariella recalled. "It has different rules of grammar and sentence structure, and it also ...