Mission

Reborn Tongues is an educational organization focussing on teaching people to read, write, speak and think in Native American languages. The Native American languages we have chosen are: Comanche, Cherokee, Inupiaq, Kiowa, Lakota, Ojibway, Mohawk, Navajo, Shoshone and Tlingit. Only three of these languages (Cherokee, Lakota and Navajo) have excellent chances for survival. The remainder are struggling and several are likely to be dead languages within the next decade or two.

Language preservation efforts other than the work by linguists have resulted in in the compilation of word lists and the teaching of words. In many cases, the valuable work of linguists in describing the grammar of these languages has been ignored and even shunned.

For a language to be truly alive a community of speakers must be using the language to express themselves and even thinking in the language. Reborn Tongues has as its mission to teach the grammar of these languages and improve on language resources so that this goal becomes possible. Our goal is to make these materials free or available at low cost to offset expenses of production. We will be offering books, online courses and audio/visual materials.