UNGA president urges recovering, preserving indigenous languages

Kwakwaka dancers from the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada perform during the launch ceremony of the International Year of Indigenous Languages at the UN headquarters in New York, Feb. 1, 2019. UN General Assembly (UNGA) president on Friday urged the international community to better "recover" and "preserve" indigenous languages. The International Year of Indigenous Languages is a UN observance in 2019 that aims to raise awareness of the consequences of the endangerment of indigenous languages across the world, and to establish a link between language, development, peace, and reconciliation.