Newsletter: Upcoming bilingual workshops for Living Dictionaries!
Upcoming webinars
Living Dictionaries are collaborative multimedia web tools that can help languages survive for generations to come. Ideal for maintaining indigenous as well as diaspora languages, Living Dictionaries are never out-of-print, infinitely expandable resources. They go well beyond a static print dictionary, combining language data with digital audio recordings of speakers and other multimedia.
We have two upcoming free Zoom webinars coming up! Info below.
Living Dictionaries
Want to build a Living Dictionary? We are offering two bilingual workshops in English and Spanish!
- Apr 21, 2022 at 11:00 am EST (UTC – 4:00)
- May 19, 2022 at 11:00 am EST (UTC – 4:00)
Register and learn how to build an online dictionary with multimedia.
Diccionarios Vivos
¿Quieres construir un Diccionario Vivo? Te ofrecemos dos talleres bilingües en inglés y español.
- 21 de abril 2022 a las 11:00 am EST (UTC – 4:00)
- 19 de mayo 2022 a las 11:00 am EST (UTC – 4:00)
Inscríbete y aprende a construir un diccionario en línea con multimedia.
News
We are proud to be featured in the April 2022 cover story by Mint Lounge, a popular publication throughout India. This in-depth article discusses the grassroots work being done to preserve endangered languages in India. Living Tongues linguist Dr. Bikram Jora shared many details about our team’s work documenting the Birhor language.
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages has been selected as the winner for the “2022 Best of Salem Awards in the category of Community Service & Non-Profit Organizations.” We feel honored to be recognized by the community in this way!
The Salem Award Program’s purpose is to support and offer public recognition of the contributions of businesses and organizations in and around Salem, Oregon, which is where we are headquartered.
Videos
We are pleased to announce that Living Tongues Director Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson and Living Tongues Senior Researcher in Phonetics Dr. Luke Horo presented their work at the “Linguistic Issues in Speech Processing Research of Under-Resourced Languages” conference (LISPRUL 2022) on March 2–3, 2022.
The title of their presentation was “Under-resourced Languages and Documentation in India: The Living Tongues Approach.” See the video for the full presentation.
In this video, Living Tongues Program Director Anna Luisa Daigneault provides a 20-minute overview of Living Dictionaries, a mobile-friendly web platform where citizen-linguists can build online dictionaries on any device. Living Dictionaries are multimedia tools for language documentation and language revitalization or maintenance.
Thanks for watching!