New Plans for a New Year: The 2026 Look Ahead

Dear Friends and Relatives,

Our 7000 Languages Team are so excited to expand on the great achievements of 2025 with new collaborations, new partnerships, and new language courses in 2026! Read below to learn what we hope to accomplish, and ways that you can support this work!

Students sing in unison at the Tlingit Cultural Language and Literacy program in Juneau Public Schools

Continuing Partnership with National Native American Language Resource Center

We will continue to support language revitalization across the United States as a part of the National Native American Language Resource Center, working in collaboration with the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, the University of Alaska Southeast, and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University in Wisconsin. In close collaboration with local partners from tribal nations, we intend to support the launch of more new language courses in 2026.

2024 Fellow, Tyler Lee-Wynant, presenting his research on Northern Pomo at UH-Manoa in Hawaii for ICLDC 2025

Fellowship Program

We are excited to reaffirm our commitment to community members engaging in language revitalization work. Our fellowship program will support 4 New Fellows in 2026 with exciting new components to the fellowship program that we will share details on soon. As a part of our commitment to our community and our 2025 Fellows, we will be launching our current Fellows’ courses in early 2026! To keep up with course launches, fellowship application announcements, and the work of our community members as they go on to accomplish their goals, make sure you’re subscribed to our mailing list.

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Our fellows are supported throughout their fellowship with a stipend for the work they accomplish. This support allows community members to dedicate the necessary time to creating language content for this program that can later be used by the community in their language learning goals. If you or someone you know is interested in supporting a fellow for an endangered language around the world, connect with us today!

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Jennifer Weston (far left), 7000 Languages Executive Director, meets with Doyon partners in Alaska, August 2025

Community Partnerships

This year, we supported endangered language communities across the US, the Caribbean, and Africa through our various programs and partnerships. We are grateful for the opportunity to work in lock step with such diverse communities doing important work. In 2026, we will continue to expand on this work with new partnerships planned with our partners in Alaska as well as the expanded launch of our new collaboration with a major tech company to support community based language efforts! If you are interested in learning more, getting support for your language, or want to support this work, contact us today!

As members of our community, we are grateful for you and your support now and throughout the years. We look forward to more collaborations, more language courses, and a more linguistically diverse future alongside you! Please consider a tax deductible contribution to 7000 Languages as a part of your end of year giving to support this work!

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