Recap: 2025 and all it brought us

In a year of tumultuous change, we are proud to have supported brave, community-led efforts for language revitalization across the continent and beyond. As institutional support has become sparse across the entire nonprofit sector, it has become even more important to come together and reaffirm our relationships as community members — responsible for the wellbeing of our relatives, just as they are for us. Over the course of this year, our staff have traveled thousands of miles to meet communities where they are, supporting their goals and aspirations for a brighter future for their languages and learners.

7000 Languages Staff meet with Doyon Foundation teacher partners in Hawaii, March 2025

Community Partnerships

This year, we deepened our work with the National Native American Language Resource Center, through in-person meetings with home institutions and partner communities, to develop courses for endangered languages across the United States. So far, we are honored to have collaborated on the following courses, launched in April:

Potawatomi 

Quinault 

Taino for English speakers 

In-Progress:

Ahtna

Chochenyo

Eastern Shoshone

Nisenan

Nakona

Taino for Spanish speakers

Quapaw

We are excited to launch new courses in the coming months that, as always, have been created and guided by community as equal partners with us and the National Native American Language Resource Center.

Renewed Doyon Partnership!

We continue to expand our community partnership with longtime collaborator, Doyon Foundation. 7000 Languages is pleased to continue supporting Doyon’s grant-supported efforts to expand language access for their Dinak’i and other community language programs, as well as new Molly of Denali-related programming on the horizon to be announced in 2026!

7000 Languages is proud to continue to nurture our partnerships with the following organizations working in these endangered languages:

Chickaloon Village Traditional Council – Ahtna Language

Comanche Academy – Comanche Language Teacher Training and Certification

Comanche Nation – Comanche Language Teacher Training and Certification

Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee – Comanche Language course development and Code Talkers short film actor dialog-coaching support

Doyon Foundation – Benhti Kenaga’ (Lower Tanana), Deg Xinag, Denaakk’e (Koyukon), Tanacross, Dinak’i (Upper Kuskokwim), Gwich’in, Han, Holikachuk, Inupiaq, Upper Tanana (Nee’aanèegn’)

Muwekma Ohlone Preservation Foundation - Chochenyo

Sealaska Heritage Institute - Tlingit

Tyler Lee-Wynant presents research done during his fellowship with 7000 Languages at the International Conference for Language Documentation and Conservation 2025 in Hawaii

Fellowship Program 

Early this year, we officially launched the public courses for the 2024 Fellowship Cohort. Our 8 fellows created amazing courses to support the specific needs of their communities, informed by their community insights and community-based collaboration. You can learn more about the 2024 fellows and their language courses via our Fellowship Showcase. We were excited to continue the showcasing of these fellows and their courses, by supporting presentations  at the International Conference for Language Documentation and Conservation at UH-Manoa in Oahu, Hawaii as well as the National Indian Education Association Conference in Palm Springs, CA

Looking Forward

We are also excited to continue the journey with our 2025-2026 Reclaim and Sustain Fellows. These 10 fellows are creating courses, aligned with their community goals, to support language revitalization and launch their expanding careers in the language revitalization field. Out of thousands of applicants, this new cohort will join a growing community of practitioners enacting change on the ground for endangered language communities around the world. Our fellowship program continues to attract amazing language keepers from supportive communities, and we look forward to expanding these opportunities in 2026, with this and upcoming cohorts!

7000 Languages is proud to stand hand in hand with so many communities that have taken great leaps towards reclaiming language and culture, for themselves and the generations yet to come. We will continue to serve these communities and welcome more partnerships with tribes, mission-aligned foundations and organizations, and individuals working to support language revitalization and reclamation.

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