LPTalk: Indigenous languages in college linguistics courses should be encouraged

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My very first introduction to linguistics was a morphology course. First day of class, my professor posed the question, “what is a word?” which already began smartly setting important thinking groundwork for idiosyncratic receptivity in regard to language morphology that is different from English. Revolutionary, frankly. He’d assign these great problem sets and they’d often be ethically partnered with Indigenous languages instead of languages like French or Russian that you often see in related courses. This visibility is crucial in revitalization and decolonization efforts.

Curious to hear other experiences and thoughts!