Ticci Man Project - Nonprofit 

Northern Arizona University

Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth--many of them not yet recorded--may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain.

This National Geographic Society Project identified five language "hot spots" around the world where Native Indigenous languages are most rapidly being lost, two of which are in the United States of America. The Native American Languages Act of 1990 makes it U.S. Government policy to promote, protect, and preserve the Indigenous languages of the U.S.A.              See full article

Native Language Preservation 

There are an estimated 500,000 Native language speakers left in the US. Over the last several decades, hundreds of Native languages have went extinct and the trend is continuing. 

Some of the richest languages to ever grace the planet have been and are Native American languages. 

A key part of TMP's efforts goes toward keeping many Native American languages from going extinct. TMP seeks to partner with Native language educators toward lending them key supports needed to ensure their success, as well as help develop new outlets that assist in Native language preservation and rejuvenation. 

Much of the proceeds from the Ticci Man Project help to fund such efforts.

Additional Links

Native Languages

Sovereign Nations Preservation Project

Living Tongues: Institute For Endangered Languages

National Geographic: Disappearing Languages

Teaching Indigenous Languages

Indigenous Language News

Learn more about the nonprofit cultural aspects at www.KonTicci.Org 

*Terminology

We use the term Native People (NP) in the purely anthropological sense to denote "aboriginal people of the world,  which includes a wide variety of self-descriptive nomenclatures, including Canada's First Nations People, Native Americans, and many others of the American continents and Pacific Island groups and places of the world. When more specific descriptions are used, they will include current country of origin or commonly known tribal names (i.e. Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, Dine, etc.).

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