PALMAS, Brazil – Guaricema Pataxo's indigenous roots are the cornerstone of her identity. The 53-year-old great-grandmother lives on her Pataxo people's reservation and makes a living by hawking their ...

Exchange programs have been around for decades, but a new innovative language project is taking it to a more digital level. The Speaking Exchange project is linking up Brazilian students who need help ...

The Brazilian language is one of the few countries in the world where Portuguese is the dominant language. Meanwhile, Spanish is spoken all over the worldwide, but both remain similar. Across the ...

For smartphone users deep in the Amazon, sending a text message in the Nheengatu language just got easier - giving their endangered native tongue a better chance of survival in the digital age.

PALMAS, Brazil (AP) — Guaricema Pataxo’s indigenous roots are the cornerstone of her identity. The 53-year-old great-grandmother lives on her Pataxo people’s reservation and makes a living by hawking ...

Those in Brazil whose first language is Portuguese have likely never stopped to think about their linguistic rights. They exist indeed, and have been set out in the Universal Declaration of Linguistic ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva defended the fund's actions in changing language on Brazil's climate risks as part of an economic ...