Living Tongues was featured on The Weather Channel!

Languages are being lost due to a wide array of factors, including colonization, globalization, cultural assimilation, migration and urbanization. Climate change, deforestation, rising sea levels and environmental contamination are drivers of displacement and migration, which in turn causes language shift towards dominant languages.

Thanks to The Weather Channel for featuring our work on Living Dictionaries on the Pattrn show. Living Tongues Program Director Anna Luisa Daigneault was interviewed by Stephanie Abrams and Jordan Steele. She outlined the connections between climate change and endangered languages, and gave an example of a weather word from the Apatani language (spoken in India).