Newsletter: Living Tongues in the news, plus September events
Living Tongues was featured in Slate Magazine!
This month, Slate featured our work in this wonderful article, alongside the work of other language activist groups around the world. Quote from the article:
One project that has seen particular growth during the pandemic has been talking dictionaries, open-source lexicons that feature audio entries. Since the outbreak began, [Living Tongues program director] Anna Luisa Daigneault has been holding regular webinars with collaborators around the world on how speakers can work on dictionaries from home. “It creates visibility for the languages on the internet,” she says of the project, “and it empowers the community to really take charge of their own documentation.”
Roundit: all donations matched
With your support, we can help languages survive for generations to come. We’re happy to offer you a new and exciting way to donate to Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. With Roundit, you can now round up your credit or debit card purchases and donate that extra change to Living Tongues.
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TEDxGreensboro
A few days ago, Living Tongues Program Director Anna Luisa Daigneault gave a talk at TEDxGreensboro, an event bringing together speakers under the theme RISK. She shared why languages are at risk of disappearing, what we can do to celebrate linguistic diversity on Earth, and how we can support endangered language revitalization in our current generation. The talk will be premiered via Zoom on September 10th at 12:30 pm EST! (More about the talk)
Our 2020 summer interns
The 2020 Living Tongues Summer Intern Cohort ended this week! We’d like to thank all the dedicated interns who joined us over the past six weeks to work on annotating Sora language data, assigning semantic domains in online dictionaries and other digital research tasks! What a wonderful group of people from all over the world, all dedicated to protecting linguistic diversity. The next internship opportunity will be announced in early 2021.
Stories of endangered language activism
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages is partnering with PEN America to host a virtual reading event. This event will highlight the urgency of safeguarding America’s endangered Native American languages. Indigenous language activists will read personal stories from their experiences documenting and revitalizing endangered languages. Writers participating in this event will be announced soon!
When: Sep 16, 2020, 7:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)