“…In the course of thirty years, the nest idea has circled the world. The approach originated in the 1980s in New Zealand (as kōhanga reo) in an effort to revitalize the Maori language, then "traveled" to places like Hawaii as Aha Pūnana Leo, to Inari (Finland) as kielâpiervâl, to Karelia (Russia) as kielipezä, to Taiwan as yuyanchao, and to Võrumaa (Estonia) as keelepesä as part of globally inspired, locally-organized efforts to renew Indigenous and autochthonous languages (Ford, 1996;Golovachev, 2007;Huang, 2007;King, 2001;Pasanen, 2009Pasanen, , 2010Pasanen, , 2015Pasanen, , 2018. In each site, the same core purpose of the nest approach--to revitalize the nondominant language-can be found, but national possibilities and local priorities differently shape the nest's form.…”