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Documenting the Fragile Knowledge Domains of the Birhor People in India We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a two-year grant by the Zegar Foundation to document the fragile knowledge domains of the Birhor tribal people. The Birhor are a Munda-speaking, forest-dependent…
Micronesia Language Revitalization Workshop by K. David Harrison and Gregory D. S. Anderson A Language Revitalization workshop was held over 4 days in July 2013 in Kolonia, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) hosted by the Island Research…
Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival One World, Many Voices Of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken in the world today—many of them unrecorded—up to half may disappear in this century. As languages vanish, communities lose a wealth of knowledge about history,…2013
2012
- Enduring Voices Media Skills Workshop in Chile, Jan 7-11, 2013
- “Festival of Words” and Dictionary Workshop in Colombia
- Endangered Languages Fair at the New York Public Library
- Siletz Talking Dictionary featured in New York Times article
- “Vanishing Voices” in National Geographic Magazine, July 2012
- Launching New Site on Endangered Languages With Google!
- Live-blog from Fieldwork in Kalmykia!
- Thank you, volunteers!
- The Endangered Languages of South America: Grassroots Language Activism & New Media for the 21st Century
- UPDATE! Campaign for Language Technology Kits
- Indiegogo Campaign: Language Technology Kits!
- “International Mother Language Day” Events at University of West Georgia
- Talking Dictionaries – Hot News in the Press!
- “International Mother Language Day” Events at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- “Endangered Languages: Global and Local Perspectives” event at California State University, Northridge