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Our mission is to collaborate with First Nations' communities to preserve and revitalize at-risk indigenous languages, using contemporary educational practices and cutting-edge technology.

On September 30, we honour the children who never returned home, the Survivors of residential schools, their families, a...
09/30/2026

On September 30, we honour the children who never returned home, the Survivors of residential schools, their families, and their communities.

Indigenous languages carry knowledge, identity, history, and connection across generations. Their continuation is a testament to the strength of the people and communities who have kept them alive.

Today is a day to listen, remember, learn, and honour.

Every Child Matters. Every Language Matters.

Technology can help carry language forward when it is built around community needs, community knowledge and community co...
09/22/2026

Technology can help carry language forward when it is built around community needs, community knowledge and community control.

LanguageCloud™ supports language revitalization through digital tools that can help with teaching, learning, access, and everyday use while keeping sovereignty and community ownership at the centre.

As we prepare for the IndigiTech Summit, we’re continuing the conversation about how technology can build healthy living languages within communities.

Language is living. It carries knowledge, connects generations, and belongs in the hands of the communities who speak it...
09/22/2026

Language is living. It carries knowledge, connects generations, and belongs in the hands of the communities who speak it.

LanguageCloud™ believes technology can support that work by helping communities create tools for learning, teaching, sharing, and carrying language forward while keeping community sovereignty and control at the centre.

That’s part of the conversation LanguageCloud is bringing to the IndigiTech Summit in Calgary on September 23.

If you’ll be there, come connect with us and learn more about how technology can support community-led language revitalization.

Language revitalization is often described as a cultural project but we believe it's much deeper than that. Within langu...
05/18/2026

Language revitalization is often described as a cultural project but we believe it's much deeper than that.

Within language lives history, governance, teaching and ways of knowing shaped over thousands of years.

Research continues to show connections between language and wellbeing, including stronger intergenerational connection, community belonging and mental health outcomes.

Language is not something frozen in the past.

It is living, relational, and deeply connected to community wellbeing. 💛

Most LanguageCloud spaces are private, built by and for the communities they serve.Chinook Wawa is different.As a trade ...
05/17/2026

Most LanguageCloud spaces are private, built by and for the communities they serve.

Chinook Wawa is different.

As a trade language shared across the Pacific Northwest for generations, it allows us to open the door for the first time.

The Chinook LanguageCloud is our first and only public platform.

Inside is a living dictionary shaped by speakers, along with stories, cultural materials, and learning tools.

If you’ve ever wondered what language revitalization looks like in practice, or what it could look like for your own community, visit our Chinook case study.

https://chinook.languagecloud.ca

More than 60,000 words have been documented by Indigenous communities across Canada through LanguageCloud.Communities gu...
05/12/2026

More than 60,000 words have been documented by Indigenous communities across Canada through LanguageCloud.

Communities guide how their language resources are stored, shared, accessed and protected.

What sits behind those words are recordings, teachings, stories, and the work of speakers, teachers and Elders continuing to carry language forward.

LanguageCloud helps provide a place where those resources can be organised and remain connected to community.

Earth has always been a teacher.Long before formal systems of education, knowledge lived in the land itself.Not abstract...
04/22/2026

Earth has always been a teacher.

Long before formal systems of education, knowledge lived in the land itself.

Not abstract, not assumed.
Observed, explored and passed down to generations.

That kind of knowledge doesn’t disappear.
But it does require attention.

Earth Day is a reminder of that continuity.

There’s a term in language revitalixation that stays with people the first time they hear it.Silent speakers.People who ...
04/21/2026

There’s a term in language revitalixation that stays with people the first time they hear it.

Silent speakers.

People who grew up hearing their ancestral language, understanding it, carrying it, but not speaking it.

The language is still there.

Revitalization doesn’t only create new speakers. It can also create space for people to begin again, in their own time and in their own way.


Chinook Word of the Day 🗣 Tumtum In English, we separate the heart and the mind. Feelings live in one place. Thoughts in...
04/19/2026

Chinook Word of the Day 🗣 Tumtum

In English, we separate the heart and the mind. Feelings live in one place. Thoughts in another.

Tumtum is the word for heart — and the word for thought, will, opinion, and what you carry inside.

What you feel and what you think are the same thing, held in the same word, spoken in the same breath.

It shows up often in the language:
Kloshe tumtum = good heart. Peace within yourself.
Skookum tumtum = strong heart. Courage.
Iktah maika tumtum? = What do you think? Literally: what is your heart saying?

That last one stops people. Because in English, you ask someone what they think. In Chinook Wawa, you ask what their heart says.

Words like this are why we document. Why we listen. Why this work matters.

Iktah maika tumtum / What is your heart saying today? 👇

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