Modern and Classical Languages Department

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Tracing ancient Asia-America migration in language

Kets are a living linguistic fossil. Several hundred strong and dwindling, they inhabit swampy, mosquito-infested areas along the Yenisei, a mighty central Siberian river whose bright-blue waters flow into the Arctic Ocean. Thousands of years ago, reindeer pastoralists and horse herders pressed…

2016-05-03
Memories of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 2016-04-26
U.S. linguist works with indigenous women to preserve Paraguay’s Guana language

Linguist Shaw N. Gynan, from Western Washington University, has been working with four indigenous women in northern Paraguay’s Rio Apa community to preserve the endangered Guana language.

2016-04-08
Whatever happened to German America? 2016-02-16
Free French, Spanish classes for faculty and staff 2015-10-05
Alfers publishes research on Holocaust poetry in French journal 2015-09-28
Registration open for free summer language workshops 2015-06-30
Registration open for spring employee language classes 2015-04-03
Garcia presents at Guatemala conference 2015-03-10
Hoffman publishes collection of Spanish female authors 2015-02-13
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