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Tiktok is known for its videos featuring cute pets, shopping hauls, recipes, and dance trends. Now instructors are using it in the language classroom to showcase languages as…

Honoring our Indigenous students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community partners.

Learn more about this new Open Educational Resource (OER) for French.

Language revitalization is an important aspect of Native language learners. While fostering language preservation, the linguistics graduate program has new efforts to help out…

The Institute of Linguistics is offering four courses without prerequisites in Fall 2023:

The Institute of Linguistics and the American Indian Studies department are hiring a speaker of Ojibwe / Anishinaabemowin to serve as a Research Professional to serve on a…

Please welcome Mel Hervonen as the new graduate program and curricular coordinator for the administrative hub of the Language Center and the Institute of Linguistics.

Ever wonder about those pronunciation memes on TikTok where every word in a sentence is pronounced the same?

A glimpse into a few of CLA’s course offerings that fulfill the “Race, Power, and Justice in the United States” (RPJ) theme requirement.

LING 1701 and LING 3001 for Undergraduate Students and LING 5001 for Graduate Students. All courses are fully remote.

Raining cats and dogs, the green-eyed monster, as mad as a hatter. Anatoly Liberman, a linguist and professor of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, explains our everyday phrases.

The Language Center and the Institute of Linguistics are pleased to announce that the two units are forming an administrative hub for collaboration and resource sharing in…

Daniel Haataja spent the 1988-89 academic year in Iceland as a Val Björnson exchange student, which he credits with inspiring his interest in languages. He went on to earn his…

"We have to pick up and carry this language on because if it's gone, it's gone forever," said Mskwaankwad Rice, a Linguistics PhD student.

The Colloquium series offers weekly events most Fridays in the afternoons. Subscribe to our mailing list for colloquium announcements and links to the events.

A team of researchers in Linguistics and American Indian Studies have been awarded an NSF/NEH Dynamic Language Infrastructure grant for their project, “Developing Indigenous…

CLA is delighted to announce that Dr. Amanda Dalola will join as Director of the Language Center and Associate Professor in the Institute of Linguistics beginning August 29…

Associate Professor Brendan Kishketon (PhD ‘09, linguistics) has been making waves in Ojibwe language revitalization since his years in graduate school. Learn more about his…

The Institute of Linguistics is thrilled to announce that Assistant Professor Diti Bhadra has been awarded an National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant for her project…

The Institute of Linguistics is offering three courses without prerequisites in Fall 2022: LING 1701 Language and Society, LING 1913 Words at Work, LING 3001 Introduction to…