The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages has identified roughly twenty Language Hotspots. They are areas of the world that are urgently in need of action and should be the areas of highest priority in planning future research projects and channeling funding streams. The above map is a working model, with the map changing as … Continue reading Language Hotspots
One World, Many Voices Of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken in the world today—many of them unrecorded—up to half may disappear in this century. As languages vanish, communities lose a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human mind. The One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage program … Continue reading Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
BODY OF WORDS summer guest blog series, post 1. by Allison Taylor-Adams One isn’t born with feelings of shame and a lack of self-confidence about one’s language. Where do they come from?[i] All languages change. Every language spoken today is the daughter of some now silent ancestor, related but different. Languages morph, split, and combine; … Continue reading Stolen Tongues
This presentation was given at the United Nations Symposium on Language on May 1st, 2012. After giving a brief introduction to Language Hotspots (a model conceived and developed by Dr. Gregory DS Anderson and Dr. K. David Harrison), Anna Luisa Daigneault speaks about several indigenous language activists in Paraguay, Chile and Peru who are using … Continue reading The Endangered Languages of South America: Grassroots Language Activism & New Media for the 21st Century
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