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 ...

A new app, Tlingit Games, brings you into the world of wildlife. Choose “Birds!” and you watch hummingbirds, kingfishers and Stellar’s Jays fly in and out of a wooded scene of other birds. Press any ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has released its first Tlingit apps for students who want to learn their Native language through mobile devices. The programs include an app with more than three ...

A group of people in Juneau spend an hour every Monday practicing Tlingit. They bring dictionaries and flashcards, look at handouts and do language exercises. But this isn’t a class. An informal group ...

A fish doesn’t jump in Tlingit, the native language of indigenous people of Southeast Alaska. It performs a feat no word in English can adequately express. The verb in Tlingit captures the instant ...

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 ...

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