Newsletter, Winter 2011: season’s greetings and our end-of-year appeal
Season’s greetings!
Over the course of 2011, we have worked with hundreds of people dedicated to endangered language documentation. From the remote corners of Arunachal Pradesh in India to the southern tip of the Andes in Chile, we have been collaborating with incredibly perseverant individuals who are fighting to conserve their languages in their communities.
At the Living Tongues Institute, we are a small and dynamic team with a low overhead. We coordinate big long-term projects on a modest budget. Our goal in 2012 is to expand our collaborative research with language activists around the world.
Our end of year appeal invites you to adopt one of the languages of your choice. In choosing a language to support, you are helping linguists and indigenous language activists document, conserve and maintain a language. You are also helping future generations gain access to printed materials or online resources and tools produced in their own language. Please consider making a donation of $50, $100, $200 or whatever you can to sustain endangered language activism around the world.
Here are some of the languages you can choose from:
- Yokoim (East Sepik, Papua New Guinea)
- Koro Aka
- Chulym
- Matukar (Madang Province, Papua New Guinea)
Other languages you can adopt are also listed here.
We thank you for your support and wish you all the best in this holiday season!
From everyone at the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
Left to right: Dr. Ganesh Murmu, Greg Anderson, Anthony Degio and Katia Yame (Koro Aka speakers) and K. David Harrison in India.
Left to right: Anna Luisa Daigneault and Maria Ines Huenunir Antihuala (Mapudungun speaker) in Santiago de Chile.
Left to right: Jeremy Fahringer, Kirang Norbu Maspu and Katiram Maspu (Bugun speakers), and Greg Anderson recording a conversation in the Bugun language about hunting local game. Rama Bao village, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India.