Heritage languages mold the existence of the United States of America. According to Dr. Carreira, people speak over 350 languages other than English at home. And more than 67 million people speak a ...

In Louisiana, Louisiana French isn't our only heritage language; Louisiana Creole is another language that is woven into our cultural fabric. In this episode, we talk with two leading experts and ...

Preface -- Nathalie Dajko and Shana Walton -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Connie Eble -- Indigenous languages -- The Chitimacha language: a history -- Daniel W. Hieber -- Kowassaaton Ilhaalos: ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - When the first Europeans arrived in Louisiana, the Houma tribe lived closer to Baton Rouge. “The reason Baton Rouge is called Baton Rouge, that red stick was our red stick.

Mo peur nous va quitté le langage à nos vieux parents mouri. Créole qui donne nous-autres le goût d'une l'histoire qui représent la mosaïque de La Louisiane, li toujours traité comme un langage ...

An estimated 7,000 languages might vanish from the globe by the end of this century.Watch reportWhen New Orleans-born Native American Grayhawk Perkins launched his project 13 Moons, he vowed to save ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) continues its partnership with Télé-Louisiane, bringing viewers eight all-new episodes of La Veillée, a 15-minute weekly look at the happenings, ...

Schools across Louisiana will have 80 teachers from around the world in classrooms this upcoming school year as part of an exchange program that bolsters the state’s K-12 foreign language immersion ...

The first thing you realize when you enter the classroom filled with eager 5th graders is that, though the school is in the heart of New Orleans, no one is speaking English. “Quel est cet objet?” ...

The 5-year-olds in Ann Francois' prekindergarten class were oblivious to the group of men and women who slipped into their room Tuesday as they were naming the days of the week in French. The ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers took another step Tuesday in efforts to chip away at abortion rights, nearing final passage of a bill that would ask voters to rewrite the state ...

Some Louisiana schools could lose their French and Spanish immersion programs following a decision by President Donald Trump to suspend temporary work visas, state educators say. Trump's order ...