Category Archives: Endangered Language Activism

Talking Dictionaries – Hot News in the Press!

K. David Harrison’s presentation at the AAAS last Friday in Vancouver publicly unveiled our 8 talking dictionaries projects. We have received a lot of amazing press coverage over the last few days! And more to come this week. Here are some useful links for you:

Here are some of the recent international articles where the Talking Dictionaries, the Enduring Voices Project and the Living Tongues Institute are mentioned.

And more articles and related links are listed on our Living Tongues Facebook Page.

Thanks for reading!

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“International Mother Language Day” Events at University of West Georgia

At the University of West Georgia in Carrolton, one hour west of Atlanta, in collaboration with local UWG student group BABEL (Building Awareness for the Benefit of Endangered Languages), the events are being held on International Mother Language Day, 2012:
  • February 21 @ 5pm – 6:45pm: Endangered Languages Workshop with Anna Luisa Daigneault in Anthropology Lecture Hall, University of West Georgia. Facebook Event
  • February 21 @ 7pm – 9pm: Free Film Screening of acclaimed film “The Linguists” at University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street Dr., TLC Building, Lecture Hall C.  Facebook Event
– See you there! Happy Mother Languages Day!

“Endangered Languages: Global and Local Perspectives” event at California State University, Northridge

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Los Angeles, California

Dr. K. David Harrison and Dr. Gregory Anderson presented at CSUN university on January 31st, 2012, in the Oviatt Presentation Room.

Many thanks to the CSUN Linguistics / TESL program for organizing this great event. Greg and David were pleased to meet the staff and students at CSUN, and engage in meaningful discussions with them.

An article was published about the event here: http://sundial.csun.edu/2012/02/linguists-discuss-the-steady-extinction-of-world-languages/