The Iñupiaq Language in “True Detective: Night Country”
The endangered Iñupiaq language and culture steals the show in the acclaimed “True Detective: Night Country” television series.
The endangered Iñupiaq language and culture steals the show in the acclaimed “True Detective: Night Country” television series.
After hundreds of years of colonization and with languages disappearing around the world due to globalization, Keresan has an uphill battle to survive. However, there have been promising movements to preserve Native American languages in recent years.
Yuchi is a fascinating language. It is not known to be related to any other language on the planet, and there was no written alphabet until the 1970s. But, as of 2014, only four first-language Yuchi speakers were still alive.