School of Languages & Cultures

The School of Languages & Cultures is the only public-service training institution that delivers administrative training in the Anishinaabe language.

The school develops and delivers proficiency certification in Government Anishinaabe — the administrative register of the Anishinaabe language used in the institutions of the Polity. Certification is structured across five levels, from foundational literacy to functionally native professional fluency. Each level is examined in four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

The school also maintains the corpus of administrative Anishinaabe terminology — the working vocabulary of the bilingual civil service.

A civil service that cannot conduct its business in the official language of the population it serves is not a civil service of that population. The School of Languages & Cultures exists to ensure that the administrative language of the Polity is Anishinaabe, and that the civil servants of the Polity can use it.

Five levels of Government Anishinaabe Proficiency Certification (GAPC), from foundational literacy to functionally native professional fluency. Each level is examined in four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Further detail on each level is published in the course catalogue.

The corpus of administrative Anishinaabe terminology is maintained by the school as an institutional resource. It is the authoritative reference for terminology used in civil-service documents, training materials, and examinations. The corpus is updated continuously; additions are reviewed before admission.