Recap: 2025 and all it brought us
- 7000 Languages Team
- Nov 28, 2025
- 3 min read
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.
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
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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This is such an inspiring year-end reflection. The emphasis on community-led course development really stands out — language revitalization only works when it’s guided by the people who live and carry the language. It’s powerful to see such a wide range of nations represented, from Potawatomi and Quinault to Ahtna, Chochenyo, and Tlingit. That kind of partnership-based model feels both respectful and sustainable. I was reading a cultural preservation feature on https://englandderbyshire.co.uk/ recently about how digital tools are being used to support endangered languages globally, and your work fits beautifully into that broader movement. The Fellowship Program in particular sounds like a meaningful investment in long-term change — building not just courses, but practitioners. In a year of funding uncertainty…
I enjoyed reading about the fellowship program and the people involved in creating language-learning resources. Programs like that seem to provide a practical way for community members to share knowledge while developing new skills at the same time stonkrider
The part about staff traveling thousands of miles to work directly with language communities really stood out to me. I think face-to-face collaboration can make a huge difference when building trust and supporting long-term projects the false sun game
I was especially encouraged by the mention of supporting community-led language revitalization efforts despite the challenges facing the nonprofit sector. It’s inspiring to see organizations continue investing in cultural preservation when resources are becoming harder to find. task bar hero wiki