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✍️ RSVP for the Living Tongues Online Gala on Dec 9, 2023

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Join the researchers of Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages for our 2nd Annual Online Gala, where we present some of our highlights and innovations from 2023!

When: Saturday, Dec 9, 2023
Time: 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Where: Zoom online meeting

Register in advance for this meeting

2023 was a huge year for us. During this event, our researchers from around the world will share news about our language documentation projects, updates regarding the Living Dictionaries online platform, as well as our new research findings, publications and awards.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Want to support our work? Please visit: https://livingtongues.org/how-to-help/support/

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Gala Celebrating the Documentation of Endangered Jewish Languages

The Jewish Language Project, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and Wikitongues are teaming up to bring you this unique online event on Sunday, October 17th, 2021, celebrating ongoing efforts to document and safeguard Jewish languages around the world.

Gala Celebrating the Documentation of Endangered Jewish Languages
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In 2,000 years, there have been at least thirty Jewish languages, each reflecting unique histories of migration and resilience. However, Jewish linguistic diversity was nearly destroyed by migrations and violence in the 20th century, as ancient communities across Europe, Africa, and Asia were displaced. Today, with the exception of Yiddish, Ladino, and revitalized Hebrew, long-standing Jewish languages are under-documented, under-resourced, and spoken by aging populations, with few public resources to keep these languages alive. In other words, Jewish linguistic diversity—and all the history it represents—is critically endangered, with little time to safeguard it for the next generation. If not now, when?

This gala event on October 17th will show how current grassroots efforts are making a huge difference in protecting Jewish languages for future generations. The gala will include a panel of speakers of endangered Jewish languages, a presentation of oral history videos compiled by Wikitongues, a showcase of Living Dictionaries for endangered Jewish languages, as well as a brief introduction to Jewish languages by Professor Sarah Bunin Benor.

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Giving Tuesday: Help us bring voices to the future

It’s Giving Tuesday! Our mission is to ensure language survival for generations to come. We support speakers who are saving their languages from extinction through activism, education, and technology. With your help, we can protect language diversity world-wide. Bring voices to the future by donating today:  https://bit.ly/living-tongues

Every dollar you donate goes directly towards:

  • Funding our research teams to plan and conduct linguistic fieldwork (through remote collaboration with speakers during the time of COVID-19)
  • Teaching online training workshops for speakers and language activists around the world
  • Supplying collaborators with Language Technology Kits to make professional audio and video recordings
  • Creating, maintaining and sharing our Living Dictionaries with the world
  • Transcribing, archiving and analyzing linguistic data for scientific publications
  • Preparing data for use in local language revitalization programs
  • Mentoring local language consultants to become research assistants, colleagues, and ambassadors for their languages.

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Giving Tuesday at Living Tongues
Gutob community member in Gangare ugom (Kangapada) village, Lamtaput, Machkund, Koraput District, India, 2017. Gutob is an endangered Munda language that was documented by Living Tongues Institute between 2014-2017 with support from the National Science Foundation. Photo by Opino Gomango.


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Dictionaries for Endangered Languages in Nigeria

Help us publish the first-ever dictionaries for Olùkùmi and Owé 

Nigeria is home to hundreds of languages, many of which are endangered. This project supports two local minority languages, Olùkùmi and Owé (a dialect of Yorùbá). This is first-ever attempt to put the words, definitions and usages of these two languages into print. Contribute to the fundraising campaign. 

These dictionaries are bilingual with English, and each contain 2000 words and phrases. They will become tools for language preservation, promotion and revitalization initiatives, and will serve local speakers, language enthusiasts as well as researchers.

This publication project is led by Nigerian linguist Dr. Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo, who holds a PhD in Linguistics, and has been documenting the grammar of Olùkùmi and Owé since 2011. Dr. Arokoyo is a Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. She has collaborated with Dr. Greg Anderson and Dr. K. David Harrison at Living Tongues Institute on the Olùkùmi Talking Dictionary.