When Jennifer K.N. Heinmiller inherited the million-word project that would become the “Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English,” its principal author had blown past several deadlines, lost his ...

Henning Garvin is mindful that a day will come when he can no longer turn to his aging dad, a fluent speaker of the Ho-Chunk language — spelled Hoocąk — and ask how to say this or that in their ...

With the help of a new dictionary, a group of descendants of the Kalapuya people are teaching themselves their ancestors’ language, word by word. Esther Stutzman and her granddaughter Aiyanna Brown, ...