This happens when an official language is used more often and children stop learning the local language of their parents.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

He saw it as a way to keep children involved in the language and culture of their tribe.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

He says that in nineteen eighty-six fewer than fifty children in Hawaii could speak their native language fluently.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

It contains science-fiction violence and also language that may be inappropriate for children under the age of thirteen.

VOA: special.2011.06.20

Helen Arzola teaches the youngest children. "A child before eight is a language learning machine.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

And she says children from Spanish-speaking families benefit from learning in their own language.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Pig Latin is not the only coded language that children use.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The children sing traditional Cherokee songs in the Cherokee language.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

And older children and children who live in homes where their primary language is not English, and also children who complete all their homework, are less likely to be bullies."

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Now,just two do. That's because - while Spanish is still the language in many homes - the children of immigrants from Cuba and other Latin nations speak English in school and on the street, wear American clothes and prefer upbeat Anglo rock music to their parents' dreamy, old Spanish ballads.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19