Endangered Languages

The Cherokee Nation is set to open the historic Durbin Feeling Language Center at a grand opening celebration Tuesday, Nov. 15. at 10 a.m.

First Lady Jill Biden was in Oklahoma Friday, along with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. Both were in Tahlequah to visit the Cherokee Nation Immersion School, where young people are helping to save the endangered Cherokee language.

Linguists generally agree that almost half of the world’s nearly 7,000 languages will be extinct within the next century as dominant languages take over…