From Narragansett to Yoruba, students strengthen their knowledge of international Indigenous languages.
Brown University
On a chilly November afternoon, a handful of undergraduate students at Brown University gathered in a cozy, casual lounge to dig into the particulars of the Hawaiian language.
Why, one student asked, does the Hawaiian equivalent of “get in the car” sound more like “get on the car”?
“In Hawaiian, it’s more like ‘getting onto a car’ because it came from the way Hawaiians would t...