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Two-thirds through the decade: Living Dictionaries keeps growing We are two-thirds of the way through the 2020s, and Living Dictionaries has never grown faster: 580 dictionaries, more than 600,000 entries, 6,612 user accounts and over 5,000 visitors a month.
The Werikyana-Tiriyó-Portuguese-English Living Dictionary is now online! We have an important milestone to share with the world! The Werikyana-Tiriyó-Portuguese-English Living Dictionary is now available for public browsing. It has over 3,000 entries with accompanying audio recordings and…
Three Reasons to Support Living Tongues Institute on Giving Tuesday Giving Tuesday is this week on December 3, 2024! 😀 Here are three reasons to support Living Tongues Institute. We document endangered languages worldwide. In particular, we focus on vulnerable languages with very…
Thank you to our 2024 interns! We’ve had some incredible interns working with Living Tongues Institute in 2024, on phonetic analysis projects, organizing linguistic data for Living Dictionaries as well as analyzing conative animal calls (human…
Living Tongues teams up with Shure for “No Voice Left Behind” campaign We’ve been using Shure microphones in our language documentation projects for many years because they always work reliably, even in rugged conditions. In particular, we use Shure head-mounted mics for phonetic…
International Mother Language Day Events: 2024 Today (Feb 21) is International Mother Language Day! It is a great day to reflect on the importance of linguistic diversity and the profound impact language rights have on our lives and communities. We are celebrating…2024
2023
- Living Dictionaries: A Look at the Numbers in 2023
- New article about Living Dictionaries in “Dictionaries Journal (Special Issue: Indigenous Lexicography)”
- A Full List of Our Conferences and Publications in 2023
- The Brezhoneg Living Dictionary is now available!
- ✍️ RSVP for the Living Tongues Online Gala on Dec 9, 2023
- Presentations at SEALS 2023 in Thailand
- Summer Internships in Phonetics (2023)
- Congrats to the team who built the Nukuoro Living Dictionary!
- Living Tongues was featured on The Weather Channel!
- The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights
- Welcome to Living Tongues, Dr. Pamir Gogoi!
2022
- Living Dictionaries: Tutorials and New Features
- Living Tongues Welcomes a New Coordinator for Documentation in Africa
- Living Dictionaries Workshop at Upcoming Conference on October 4th
- Living Tongues partners with 7000 Languages to create companion dictionaries for online courses
- Living Tongues welcomes Dr. Nathan Badenoch
- Living Tongues will host ICAAL 10
- The Birhor project is featured in Mint Lounge cover story
- Living Tongues Receives “2022 Best of Salem” Award!
- Presentation at LISPRUL 2022
- The Living Dictionaries platform now includes an Assamese interface
2021
- Looking Back On Conferences In 2021
- A Survey of the Ethnobotanical Knowledge of the Birhoɽ People of India
- Presentation at the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)
- VIDEO: Jewish Languages, From One Generation to the Next
- Collaboration with the Skarure Woccon to develop the first-ever Woccon Living Dictionary
- Gala Celebrating the Documentation of Endangered Jewish Languages
- Upcoming Zoom Webinars for Living Dictionaries
- New Publication on Electronic Lexicography
- Living Tongues Institute is the recipient of grants from the NEH and NSF
- Welcome, summer interns of 2021!
- Living Dictionaries: A Tutorial for the Languages of Africa (WOCAL 10)
- The Team Building the Tutelo-Saponi Monacan Living Dictionary Receives A Grant from Native Voices Endowment
- Remembering Johnny Hill Jr, Speaker of Chemehuevi
- Living Dictionaries featured at Colloquium on Indigenous Knowledge Systems
2020
- Birhor Project Update: Abun Ari Re
- VIDEO TUTORIAL: How to Create a Living Dictionary
- NEW VIDEO: The House of the Lurni Spirit
- Living Dictionaries: Upcoming Webinars in English, French and Spanish
- Giving Tuesday: Help us bring voices to the future
- Living Dictionaries: New Features Launched!
- Happy Indigenous People’s Day!
- Living Tongues at TEDx Greensboro (Sept 10)
- Stories of Endangered Language Activism (A Virtual Reading on Sept 16)
- Roundit: A new way to support Living Tongues
- Living Tongues Statement on Black Lives Matter
- The Linguists is now streaming
- Team Spotlight: Dr. Bikram Jora
- Learn Languages Online: A Guide To Studying Indigenous, Under-Resourced and Minority Languages
- New publication: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Team Spotlight: Dr. Luke Horo
- How We are Staying Resilient during the Coronavirus Pandemic
- The Language Sustainability Toolkit is out now!
2019
- 2019: The Year in Review
- Looking back on 2019: An update on Documenting the Fragile Knowledge Domains of the Birhor People
- Mapudungun poetry by María Ines Huenuñir Antihuala featured in “Poems from the Edge of Extinction”
- How to Support Endangered Languages on #GivingTuesday
- Birhor Project Update!
- The 8th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics
- Dr. Luke Horo to present at The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019)
- Speak Volumes: Meet-and-Greet in Seattle on Aug 8th
- Only 5 days left in our fundraising campaign!
- Presentation at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24)
- 16 days left in our fundraising campaign
- National Science Foundation Grant for Sora Language Documentation (India)
- Welcome to the team, Morgan Mann!
- Remembering Dora Manchado, the last speaker of Tehuelche
2018
- Looking back on 2018: Thank you to all of our supporterS!
- Documenting the Fragile Knowledge Domains of the Birhor People in India
- Welcome to Living Tongues, Dr. Luke Horo!
- Updated Privacy Policy
- Thank you to our volunteers!
- On Feb 21st, the #MemeML challenge was a success!
- Volunteer Opportunity | Feb-March 2018
2017
- 2017 End-of-year Summary
- The Gutob dictionary and language materials are now online
- The Gta’ Dictionary is now up!
- Greg Anderson will speak at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Today is #GivingTuesday 2017!
- Volunteer Opportunity | Nov. 2017
- The Chulym (Ös dili) archive has been updated
- Welcome to Living Tongues, Mark Donohue!
- Academic Conferences | May 2017
- An update on the Nigeria campaign!
- Dictionaries for Endangered Languages in Nigeria
- Dr. Greg Anderson interview: Global Journalist
2016
2015
2014
- Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson publishes new article in Solutions Journal
- The Society for Science & the Public interviews K. David Harrison
- “The Linguists” and Dr. K. David Harrison at Loudoun Campus
- Le 10 cose principali da sapere sulle lingue in pericolo
- International conference in Wilamowice, Poland, June 11-13
- Top 10 Things You Need To Know About Endangered Languages
- ‘One World, Many Voices’ Photo Gallery Celebrates International Mother Language Day #IMLD14
- Our language tragedy: A report from Pakistan
- Tweet in Your Mother Language on February 21
- Koro Aka rap by Songe Nimasow & Khandu Degio (Amos Lee Remix)
- “When Languages Die” translated into Arabic
- Lecture Series w/ K. David Harrison at The Explorers Club (NYC)
2013
- How to Help Living Tongues
- Living Tongues featured in Al Jazeera article on India’s endangered languages
- Article on First Nations languages in the McGill Tribune
- Indigenous Languages Panel @ Canadian Festival of Spoken Word
- n’debaajaamowin – my story
- Indigenous Languages: Heritage and Spirit at #CFSW 2013
- Micronesia Language Revitalization Workshop
- One World, Many Voices: Guest Blog from Carla Hurd, Microsoft Local Language Program
- Song from the Mountains: Voices of the Koro Aka at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Photos from “One World, Many Voices” #2013Folklife
- Day 1 in Pictures. #2013Folklife
- More pics from Day 2. #2013Folklife
- Day 1: Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Endangered Languages Story Map
- Press Release: Smithsonian Folklife Festival Program to Raise Awareness of Global Language Loss
- Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Learn and Preserve Tuvan
- K. David Harrison at the University of Montana
- Harrison’s “The Last Speakers” published in Japanese
- Thank you to all of our donors!
- 12 hours left!
- 36 hours left!
- Dictionaries of Latin America
2012
- Microsoft Adds the Cherokee Language to Windows 8
- Enduring Voices Media Skills Workshop in Chile, Jan 7-11, 2013
- “Festival of Words” and Dictionary Workshop in Colombia
- Mapudungun poetry by María Inés Huenuñir Antihuala
- Endangered Languages Fair at the New York Public Library
- Dr. Gregory Anderson publishes “Auxiliary verb constructions in the languages of Africa”
- Siletz Talking Dictionary featured in New York Times article
- From Nepal, with Love
- “Vanishing Voices” in National Geographic Magazine, July 2012
- Stolen Tongues
- BODY OF WORDS: Announcing our Guest Blog Series on Language Loss
- Launching New Site on Endangered Languages With Google!
- Live-blog from Fieldwork in Kalmykia!
- Dr. Gregory Anderson helps record the Xyzyl Language in Siberia
- Thank you, volunteers!
- The Endangered Languages of South America: Grassroots Language Activism & New Media for the 21st Century
- 38 hours left!
- Mark Franco on language revitalization among the Winnimem Wintu
- Hishuk Ish Tsawalk: Everything is One
- 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
- Mother Tongues Day: Show Your Love for Languages!
- “Endangered Languages: Global and Local Perspectives” event at California State University, Northridge