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This season, the homepage highlight map focuses on languages, language revitalization programs, and language champions across Asia. In May 2025, the Ayta Magbukun community in Bataan Province, Philippines, held their first-ever youth language camp. Dr. Hammine studies Indigenous language revitalization and education - both in her own Yaeyaman language community in Japan, and in Sámi communities in Finland. Dr. Maung Nyeu shares how Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, are reclaiming their languages through education. This village sign language is used by about 400 people, both Deaf and hearing, and is unrelated to any other sign language on earth. Learn how the Torwali community are keeping their language, music, and literary traditions alive. In this online event, three master storytellers from across India - Bhuri Bai (Bhil), Venkat Shyam (Gond), and Indira Mukherjee - explored the relationships between storytelling, art, Indigenous languages and cultures