#endangeredlanguages — Public Fediverse posts

What happens when we lose a language?

"In Canada, research showed that among groups where more than half could maintain a conversation in their native language, youth suicide rates were low to absent, whereas they were six times higher in groups where that wasn’t the case. A language alone does not save a community from poor mental health, of course, but it may be an indicator of the cultural resilience that does."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/10/what-happens-when-we-lose-a-language

#endangeredlanguages

And while this is genuinely humbling, rest assured that it will only make me more annoying. Your students can be fluent in a year. No more excuses!!
#language #education #languagerevitalization #endangeredlanguages #Indigenouslanguages #actfl https://social.vivaldi.net/@multilingualfutures/116540116886203630

Sahan Journal: ‘Language carries many things’: How Minnesotans are preserving six rare languages . “Every four years, the U.S. Census Bureau releases state-specific language data, which highlights languages spoken at home. Last year, Sahan Journal reported on how this linguistic diversity reflects a changing state. But beyond numbers, the data also reflect Minnesotans’ efforts to preserve […]

Sahan Journal: ‘Language carries many things’: How Minnesotans are preserving six rare languages . “Every four years, the U.S. Census Bureau releases state-specific language data, which highlights languages spoken at home. Last year, Sahan Journal reported on how this linguistic diversity reflects a changing state. But beyond numbers, the data also reflect Minnesotans’ efforts to preserve […]

Sahan Journal: ‘Language carries many things’: How Minnesotans are preserving six rare languages . “Every four years, the U.S. Census Bureau releases state-specific language data, which highlights languages spoken at home. Last year, Sahan Journal reported on how this linguistic diversity reflects a changing state. But beyond numbers, the data also reflect Minnesotans’ efforts to preserve […]

Sahan Journal: ‘Language carries many things’: How Minnesotans are preserving six rare languages . “Every four years, the U.S. Census Bureau releases state-specific language data, which highlights languages spoken at home. Last year, Sahan Journal reported on how this linguistic diversity reflects a changing state. But beyond numbers, the data also reflect Minnesotans’ efforts to preserve […]

Sahan Journal: ‘Language carries many things’: How Minnesotans are preserving six rare languages . “Every four years, the U.S. Census Bureau releases state-specific language data, which highlights languages spoken at home. Last year, Sahan Journal reported on how this linguistic diversity reflects a changing state. But beyond numbers, the data also reflect Minnesotans’ efforts to preserve […]

I know they put your thesis online and I am a big advocate for making research publicly available, but it's still shocking and blush-inducing every time that someone reads or cites your weird little passion manifesto from a former lifetime. 🥰 #education #research #endangeredlanguages #languagerevitalization #highered

I know they put your thesis online and I am a big advocate for making research publicly available, but it's still shocking and blush-inducing every time that someone reads or cites your weird little passion manifesto from a former lifetime. 🥰 #education #research #endangeredlanguages #languagerevitalization #highered

I know they put your thesis online and I am a big advocate for making research publicly available, but it's still shocking and blush-inducing every time that someone reads or cites your weird little passion manifesto from a former lifetime. 🥰 #education #research #endangeredlanguages #languagerevitalization #highered

I know they put your thesis online and I am a big advocate for making research publicly available, but it's still shocking and blush-inducing every time that someone reads or cites your weird little passion manifesto from a former lifetime. 🥰 #education #research #endangeredlanguages #languagerevitalization #highered

I know they put your thesis online and I am a big advocate for making research publicly available, but it's still shocking and blush-inducing every time that someone reads or cites your weird little passion manifesto from a former lifetime. 🥰 #education #research #endangeredlanguages #languagerevitalization #highered

An interesting, relatively short discussion about using AI chatbots as tools for revitalizing endangered languages. The upshot is that, if it's going to be done at all, it needs to be done very, very carefully and only by or in close collaboration with the community that actually uses a given language. But there are an awful lot of details to work through, and this discussion is really tip-of-the-iceberg level. (Personally, I'm deeply skeptical of the value of "AI" tools for projects like these, and I'm not really convinced that the payoff is likely to be worth the effort. That's without even mentioning the ecological cost of "AI". Still, the discussion is interesting even if just in terms of the ethics involved and the particular complications of working with endangered languages.)

https://endangeredlanguages.com/story/ask-elp-ethical-ai

#EndangeredLanguages #AI #IndigenousLanguage

I actually don't think we need help learning to love, to be loving. I think we need permission from others to divest from fear. And being surrounded by people who have come to refuse fear is incredibly freeing. I want for all of us to release superficiality and material obsessions at a much younger age, so that we can be in our worth and our power, and invest in the world the elders know we need to build.
#education #linguistics #endangeredlanguages #spirituality #languagerevitalization https://social.vivaldi.net/@multilingualfutures/116358615539201259

University of Alberta: U of A linguist collaborates with community to preserve endangered language. “The structure of Sáliba, an Indigenous language spoken in Colombia, is still not well understood. But a number of audio recordings that include narratives, songs and procedural texts — along with handwritten annotations — made by Colombian linguist Jon Landaburu in the late 1960s could help […]

#Sondage / #Survey
Set up by colleagues in the USA gathering information on viability/endangerment of... not languages, but ***minority-language documentation & language work***. Recent events of withdrawal of government support serve as an opportunity to think more broadly about long-term resilience.

It comes in 2 versions:
* The short version: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/bXfPtM2-9XI9wwi3ZuYd8tOrAmPa9GKKclMfLiZKiJk/

* The longer version: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/7IpVLIHucfDK1d2yo84cL29mx09o85ICq9IpZFzZ4fc/

Please answer & help circulate
#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredArchives

Upcoming Indigenous language courses. I may sign up for Anishinaabemowin. It's been a few years since I last studied it. https://outdoorlearning.com/events/category/indigenous-language-learning/ #Indigenous #Language #EndangeredLanguages #linguistics

DY365: Race against time: Digital effort saves Khamyang Language; spoken by just one surviving person . “AASU and the Nanda Talukdar Foundation have taken a significant step in preserving Assam’s linguistic heritage by digitally archiving three endangered languages: Khamyang, Tai Phake, and Singpho.”

DY365: Race against time: Digital effort saves Khamyang Language; spoken by just one surviving person . “AASU and the Nanda Talukdar Foundation have taken a significant step in preserving Assam’s linguistic heritage by digitally archiving three endangered languages: Khamyang, Tai Phake, and Singpho.”

DY365: Race against time: Digital effort saves Khamyang Language; spoken by just one surviving person . “AASU and the Nanda Talukdar Foundation have taken a significant step in preserving Assam’s linguistic heritage by digitally archiving three endangered languages: Khamyang, Tai Phake, and Singpho.”

DY365: Race against time: Digital effort saves Khamyang Language; spoken by just one surviving person . “AASU and the Nanda Talukdar Foundation have taken a significant step in preserving Assam’s linguistic heritage by digitally archiving three endangered languages: Khamyang, Tai Phake, and Singpho.”

DY365: Race against time: Digital effort saves Khamyang Language; spoken by just one surviving person . “AASU and the Nanda Talukdar Foundation have taken a significant step in preserving Assam’s linguistic heritage by digitally archiving three endangered languages: Khamyang, Tai Phake, and Singpho.”

In a world where AI speaks every major language,
some voices are still missing.

QashqAI-Voice-Core is about protecting endangered languages and human dignity — not replacing them.

AI should listen before it speaks.

#EthicalAI #EndangeredLanguages #QashqAI

World Endangered Writing Day
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Friday, January 23rd
10:00am to 6:00pm UTC+0/GMT
https://endangeredwriting.com
@Endangeredalphabets
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With Pippa Steele, Peter Constantine, Mohamed Pujeh, Sign and Symbol Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Adam Yeo, Ariq Syauqi, Roland Huse, Iris Auda, Kambai Akau, Tim Brookes, Yanru Xu and Amalia Gnanadesikan.
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#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredAlphabets #WritingSystems #Linguistics #Symposium #MinotiryScripts

World Endangered Writing Day
—
Friday, January 23rd
10:00am to 6:00pm UTC+0/GMT
https://endangeredwriting.com
@Endangeredalphabets
—
With Pippa Steele, Peter Constantine, Mohamed Pujeh, Sign and Symbol Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Adam Yeo, Ariq Syauqi, Roland Huse, Iris Auda, Kambai Akau, Tim Brookes, Yanru Xu and Amalia Gnanadesikan.
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#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredAlphabets #WritingSystems #Linguistics #Symposium #MinotiryScripts

World Endangered Writing Day
—
Friday, January 23rd
10:00am to 6:00pm UTC+0/GMT
https://endangeredwriting.com
@Endangeredalphabets
—
With Pippa Steele, Peter Constantine, Mohamed Pujeh, Sign and Symbol Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Adam Yeo, Ariq Syauqi, Roland Huse, Iris Auda, Kambai Akau, Tim Brookes, Yanru Xu and Amalia Gnanadesikan.
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#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredAlphabets #WritingSystems #Linguistics #Symposium #MinotiryScripts

World Endangered Writing Day
—
Friday, January 23rd
10:00am to 6:00pm UTC+0/GMT
https://endangeredwriting.com
@Endangeredalphabets
—
With Pippa Steele, Peter Constantine, Mohamed Pujeh, Sign and Symbol Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Adam Yeo, Ariq Syauqi, Roland Huse, Iris Auda, Kambai Akau, Tim Brookes, Yanru Xu and Amalia Gnanadesikan.
—
#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredAlphabets #WritingSystems #Linguistics #Symposium #MinotiryScripts

World Endangered Writing Day
—
Friday, January 23rd
10:00am to 6:00pm UTC+0/GMT
https://endangeredwriting.com
@Endangeredalphabets
—
With Pippa Steele, Peter Constantine, Mohamed Pujeh, Sign and Symbol Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Adam Yeo, Ariq Syauqi, Roland Huse, Iris Auda, Kambai Akau, Tim Brookes, Yanru Xu and Amalia Gnanadesikan.
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#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredAlphabets #WritingSystems #Linguistics #Symposium #MinotiryScripts

CBC: Yukon First Nation uses holograms to preserve the knowledge of elders. “In collaboration with Carleton University and the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages, the First Nation [of Na-Cho Nyӓk Dun] is using virtual reality games and a holographic display as teaching tools. They’re also building a digital archive of community objects and constructing a digital language model […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/05/cbc-yukon-first-nation-uses-holograms-to-preserve-the-knowledge-of-elders/

The Endangered Languages Project (@ELP) has just announced they've got a new website. Among other things, it's got a useful map showing what languages are/were spoken where and what resources are available for people who speak or want to learn them.

They do a lot of good work in a field that's chronically overlooked and always underfunded, so go check them out, find any resources that might be of interest, and consider throwing them a few bucks, if you can.

https://endangeredlanguages.com/

#endangeredlanguages #ELP

Around half of the world's 7,000 languages are expected to be extinct by the end of this century. Five Books spoke to author Samantha Ellis about why this matters, and got five book recommendations from her on the subject. "With language go stories. Yes, you can translate those stories and tell them in a different language, but there is often something vibrant lost. With a language goes a sort of vibe, a style, a mode of speaking. So I do think it quite devastating that so many languages will be lost," she says.

https://flip.it/JT3glM

#Language #Linguistics #EndangeredLanguages #Books @bookstodon

Al-Monitor: Copts, Nubians, and Berbers fight to keep Egypt’s endangered languages alive. “With a population of over 118 million, Egypt is home to distinct minorities with their own traditions, beliefs and languages that have enriched Egypt’s cultural identity for millennia. Some of these languages are on the brink of extinction, however, and some of their speakers are refusing to let […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/al-monitor-copts-nubians-and-berbers-fight-to-keep-egypts-endangered-languages-alive/

Google Blog: Explore the world around you in 30 endangered languages with Google AI. “First launched in 2021, Woolaroo is an AI experiment from Google Arts & Culture that lets you snap a photo and learn the words for your surroundings in 30 endangered languages…. This year, we’re including 10 new languages from Africa, plus new languages from Brazil, Mexico, Turkey and Scotland. Our […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/15/google-blog-explore-the-world-around-you-in-30-endangered-languages-with-google-ai/

Last Chance! Our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is today! Join us for either meeting. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Last Chance! Our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is today! Join us for either meeting. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Last Chance! Our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is today! Join us for either meeting. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Last Chance! Our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is today! Join us for either meeting. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Last Chance! Our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is today! Join us for either meeting. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Hidden scripts, hidden stories. In the mountains of southern China, Yao and Puyuan women once recorded their songs, emotions, and ceremonies using unique writing systems - the Babao and Poya Songbook Scripts. Passed through generations by hand, these beautiful forms of literacy now teeter on the edge of extinction. Come join our upcoming meeting on July 6th - links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #China #women #womensstories

Hidden scripts, hidden stories. In the mountains of southern China, Yao and Puyuan women once recorded their songs, emotions, and ceremonies using unique writing systems - the Babao and Poya Songbook Scripts. Passed through generations by hand, these beautiful forms of literacy now teeter on the edge of extinction. Come join our upcoming meeting on July 6th - links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #China #women #womensstories

Hidden scripts, hidden stories. In the mountains of southern China, Yao and Puyuan women once recorded their songs, emotions, and ceremonies using unique writing systems - the Babao and Poya Songbook Scripts. Passed through generations by hand, these beautiful forms of literacy now teeter on the edge of extinction. Come join our upcoming meeting on July 6th - links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #China #women #womensstories

Just a reminder - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is coming up soon! Join us on July 6th for an engaging discussion and the latest updates. Link in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Just a reminder - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is coming up soon! Join us on July 6th for an engaging discussion and the latest updates. Link in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Just a reminder - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is coming up soon! Join us on July 6th for an engaging discussion and the latest updates. Link in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Just a reminder - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is coming up soon! Join us on July 6th for an engaging discussion and the latest updates. Link in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Just a reminder - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is coming up soon! Join us on July 6th for an engaging discussion and the latest updates. Link in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Don’t forget - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is just around the corner! Join us on July 6th for great discussion and updates. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Don’t forget - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is just around the corner! Join us on July 6th for great discussion and updates. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Don’t forget - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is just around the corner! Join us on July 6th for great discussion and updates. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community

Don’t forget - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is just around the corner! Join us on July 6th for great discussion and updates. Links in bio.

#scripts #scriptkeepersnetwork #endangeredscripts #endangeredlanguages #endangeredalphabets #languages #culture #preservation #documentation #indigenous #indigenouslanguages #indigenousscripts #network #meeting #community