hey lingblr/langblr! did you know Wikitongues is taking applications (due Jan 23rd) for a language revitalization cohort starting in April 2022? it's a really cool opportunity from a nonprofit that's been doing awesome language documentation work for the last couple years. if you're interested or know someone who might be, here's the link to apply:
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Native Miyako speaker Hiroyuki Nakama working with Clarissa Forbes in the 2016 CoLang Miyako practicum, July 7, 2016. Photo by Yoko Kugo. Our languages are falling asleep. What can we do to wake them up? CoLang, or the Institute for Collaborative Language Research, brings together language activists, learners,
Kevin Martens Wong wrote for Unravel Magazine about his experience attending CoLang 2016.
Our languages are falling asleep. What can we do to wake them up?
CoLang, or the Institute for Collaborative Language Research, brings together language activists, learners, linguists, speakers, students, teachers, elders, wiki bloggers, archivists, and publishers every two years to talk about how we can work together to learn about, document, and protect the many languages of our world. Of particular concern for the Institute are the world’s many endangered languages, many of whom are down to their last living speakers, and the Institute always plays host to a large number of representatives from these endangered language communities, who courageously come forward to share their stories with collaborators and friends.
I came to CoLang for my work on my heritage language Kristang, and the Institute was an amazing and tremendously fulfilling experience. It was a rare opportunity to work alongside friends, mentors, and pioneers in the fields of language documentation and conservation, and alongside other people working to save and reawaken their languages. I learned an enormous amount about how to do these things, and acquired a wealth of knowledge about a whole number of other cultures, peoples, and perspectives I seldom, if ever, get to even read about back home in Singapore.
CoLang 2018 is at the University of Florida and registration is open until April 1.
The institute is designed to provide an opportunity for community language activists and linguists to receive training in community-based language documentation and revitalization.
Tony Robles interviews two poets, Vanessa Lee Miller in Great Britain, and Yvette R. Murray in Charleston, SC. And… some spoken word recordings by Vanessa Lee-Miller, Katherine Dunn, Reg E. Gaines, Q.R. Hand jr., Yvette R. Murray, Avotcja and Lord Buckley
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Tony Robles interviews two poets, Vanessa Lee Miller in Great Britain, and Yvette R. Murray in Charleston, SC. And… some spoken word recordings by Vanessa Lee-Miller, Katherine Dunn, Reg E. Gaines, Q.R. Hand jr., Yvette R. Murray, Avotcja and Lord…
In Passaic, New Jersey, Jose Juarez, 46, owns a tiny botanica—a store that sells amulets, herbs and other alternative medicine, and where he also gives tarot card readings and offers spiritual guidance. Juarez speaks Totonac, an ancient language from Puebla, Mexico that is in danger of disappearing. As an activist and educator, Juarez has been fighting to keep his culture, and mother tongue, alive.
Emon Hassan, Narratively's Director of Video & Multimedia, is a New York-based filmmaker and photographer. He is the founder of the music website Guitarkadiaand a regular contributor to The New York Times.
