Newsletter: It’s #GivingTuesday, and you can help us launch more Talking Dictionaries!
It’s Giving Tuesday!
It’s #GivingTuesday! For today only, Facebook and PayPal are matching donations to non-profits. At Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, we are focused on the long-term goal of documenting and preserving the world’s threatened languages. With your support, we can create more Talking Dictionaries that will help communities conserve and share their knowledge for future generations. Thanks for your support!
News
UNESCO has declared that 2019 will be the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL). Stay tuned for our upcoming programming on that topic! Read more here.
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 people, a Munda-speaking, forest-dependent semi-nomadic tribal community with fewer than 20,000 members concentrated in the eastern central Indian state of Jharkhand and adjacent northern parts of the state of Odisha. Only a few thousand fluent speakers of the Birhor language remain at present as their way of life and their language are both under threat. Read more here on our website.
Updates and events
We would like to wish a warm welcome to our newest associate, Dr. Luke Horo! We are pleased to have him on our team in the role of Institute Fellow and Post-doctoral Researcher for the South Asia region. Horo will help take the lead on phonetic analysis on upcoming projects. Read more here.
Opino Gomango recently gave talks about Sora noun incorporation at the 39th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal (November 26–27, 2018, Kathmandu) and at the 40th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India.
The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino recently organized an international conference on the topic of “Sustaining Languages, Sustaining the World.” It was held October 10th–12th 2018 at the National Museum of the Philippines. Dr. Greg Anderson gave a talk entitled “The Threat to Linguistic Diversity in Asia: Survey and Current State of Language Endangerment.”
In September 2018, Dr. Mark Donohue taught a week-long course at the summer school “Areal Linguistics and Languages of Russia” organized by Russia’s National Research University (Higher School of Economics), on how work on the languages of the Pacific allows us to better understand human occupation of this region, and also how this work can reveal techniques for cross-linguistic comparison more generally. Read more here.
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