The US island that speaks Elizabethan English
'Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American'
#society #US #language #EndangeredLanguages #linguistics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english
The Conversation: How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes. “Before the iPod came along, people recorded their favourite tunes straight from the radio. Some of us made home recordings with our sibling and grandparents – precious childhood snippets. And a few of us even have recordings from that time we travelled to a village in Vanuatu, some 40 years […]
Princeton University: Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that. . “Happy Buzaaba’s research as a data engineer is centered on introducing more African languages into LLMs. There are over 7,000 languages in the world today, he said, and around 2,000 of these are spoken on the African continent. Yet not more than […]
The Face / Interface conference at Stanford University is just going to start! Go grab a free online ticket to watch it!
#faceinterface #stanford #typedesign #inclusivity #endangeredlanguages
If you've been waiting to support the @Endangeredalphabets calligraphy book project, this is the time! More fountain pen rewards have been added!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/endangeredatlas/endangered-alphabets-calligraphy
#writingSystems #indigenousLanguages #endangeredLanguages #handwriting #calligraphy #fountainPens @penfount
Happy Shimakutuba Day ! To celebrate, I created the page on English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimakutuba_Day
Please add to it ;)
#okinawa #linguistic #endangeredlanguages #languages
Un interessantissimo canale youtube sulle lingue minoritarie e a rischio di estinzione.
#linguistics #languages
#minorityLanguages #endangeredLanguages
Finally! Been on the waiting list for this book for eva’… #endangeredlanguages
The Aramaic original New Testament theory is the belief that the Christian New Testament was originally written in Aramaic. #MostDiscussed #Iran #AncientNearEast #Assyria #Bible #Syria #AlternativeViews #Judaism #Iraq #Christianity #Palestine #EndangeredLanguages #Lebanon https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/353480
If you feel the same way, you're encouraged to make more posts and stories about the issue to show the University of Aberdeen just how much this decision is frowned upon. Use the hashtag #saveuoalanguages in your posts to get the word out about this.
I'll be travelling tomorrow and wish I could do more right now. But together we can make it known just how unpopular this decision is.
Ei voi toivo pettää! Alle Jahre wieder! The International Winter School of #Finno-Ugric studies will take place in Uppsala from 5 to 10 February 2024. More information at https://remodus.univie.ac.at/teaching-events/winter-school-2024/ .
#Uralic languages
#linguistics
#EndangeredLanguages
#LanguageRevitalization
#OldFinnish
#LanguageContact
Free and #OpenAccess:
Nicolas Tournadre and Hiroyuki Suzuki. 2023. The Tibetic Languages: an introduction to the family of languages derived from Old Tibetan.
From the description:
"This #book is an introduction to the family of #languages derived from Old #Tibetan. These languages are spoken on the Tibetan plateau, in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The Tibetic-speaking area is nowadays located in six countries: #China, #Pakistan, #India, #Nepal, #Bhutan, and #Myanmar. Some of the smallest languages are seriously endangered, and likely to disappear soon."
From the table of contents, it covers so much across the 1100+ pages; #sociolinguistics, #culture, #history, #religion, #script and #calligraphy, ##epigraphy, alongside everything #linguistics, #etymology, #grammar, #lexicon and effects of contact languages. #language #EndangeredLanguages #Tibet
https://lacito.cnrs.fr/en/tibetic-languages/
I get why this is the sort of story #scicomm publications want to run with, but it's really not a meaningful question in #linguistics, and trying to make it more answerable by basing #language age on #languages with #writing is not the greatest message as it implies that many of those unwritten #endangeredlanguages they mention have less value.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-the-worlds-oldest-language/
Lingua Libre user? Do you record words? Reuse the recordings? Are you learning languages? Wishing to share yours?
Wikimédia France is drafting a strategic plan for #LinguaLibre, its free, libre collaborative linguistic media library.
What do you think Lingua Libre should be?
Please answer this short form: https://framaforms.org/enquete-identite-lingua-libre-en-1688401247 (5 min).
A nice piece by Jordyn Haime about efforts to revive Pingpu languages in Taiwan, including work on Makatao and Siraya.
After several meetings on DH #infrastructure (e.g. how to organise shared access to GPU-clusters?), supervising two #PhD candidates (on #distantviewing #Newsreels and on interdisciplinary #digitalScholarlyEditions, preparing for a presentation on #srmanticweb and #regesta if #medieval #charters (#diplomaticsrulez), teaching #Persona methods to a DH course on the example of #endangeredlanguages #digitalarchives and conversion of book #indices into #factoid #prosopography I finally conclude my #dayofdh2023 #dayofdh with bottle of beer ...
‘We’re losing our identity’: the young Egyptians fighting to save the ancient Nubian tongue
They lost the last of their ancestral lands to the Aswan Dam in the 1960s, and now their language is dying too. But a new generation is harnessing the internet to help keep Nubian alive
#endangeredlanguages
#BedrohteSprache
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/12/were-losing-our-identity-the-young-egyptians-fighting-to-save-the-ancient-nubian-tongue?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #BedrohteTiere
Very interesting: machine translation among 14 Finno-Ugric languages, including several endangered #Indigenous languages alongside the ones with more speakers like Hungarian or Finnish. Developed in Estonia!
Press release here:
Carver Tim Brookes' venerable Endangered Alphabets project is currently fundraising to finish their Red List survey of writing systems. Please help financially if you can and boost at will!
#fundraising #WritingSystems #EndangeredLanguages
https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/2023/02/22/finishing-the-red-list/
Yet Another Owl 
