The Tlingit language includes 50 letters, including some sounds that are not found in other languages. A new online tool, plus a note-card-and-audio system, is aimed at helping children learn the ...

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 ...

Tlingit is not considered an easy language to learn, as Mariella has discovered. "It has different rules of grammar and sentence structure, and it also includes a larger alphabet and sounds [than ...

A Juneau-based organization is behind an effort to make learning Tlingit more accessible in hopes of preserving the Alaska Native language. Skip to content. America's Newspaper. 1.

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 to ...