Fifteen Hmong Educators earned their Minnesota K-12 World Languages & Cultures teaching license with an emphasis on Hmong language and culture from Concordia College in Moorhead. CATHY WURZER: You ...

Salom Abdulle is worried her 13-year-old daughter won’t speak Somali, potentially straining her family relationships. “I don’t have any problem understanding my daughter, but my parents do,” she said.

The Somali language has its own cultural insights, which are only spoken by elders, and once they are no longer here, those insights will be lost, Muhidin said. For example, elders might use the ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: This is a Somali lullaby from an elder in Minnesota that Marian Hassan recorded for a new project she's working on. She spent her career ...