Children's book aims to save dying Alaskan language
Children's book aims to save dying Alaskan languageThe Guardian Reports on the Tlingit children's book Aanka Xóodzi ka Aasgutu Xóodzi Shkalneegi.The book was originally written in English by Ernestine...
View ArticleGeometry skills are innate, Amazon tribe study suggests
Geometry skills are innate, Amazon tribe study suggestsThe BBC Reports on the study Flexible intuitions of Euclidean geometry in an Amazonian indigene groupThe study investigates perceptions of...
View ArticleDon't listen to us, go and do chores
A dance for the windsAustralian Geographic reports on a new work by dancer/choreographer Elma Kris. What is interesting for this blog is that she mentions the nature of language use in her childhood...
View ArticleAmondawa Time
Several sources report on Professor Chris Sinha's paper, When Time is not Space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture., which...
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Guardian: on the Kayapó people and the Belo Monte dam.
In The Brazilian tribe that played by our rules, and lost, Jacqueline Windh, writes for The Guardian on the effects of the proposed Belo Monte Dam on the Kayapó People.The dam is planned to flood the...
View ArticleThe Existential Problems of minority cultures.
The Australian: Speaking one's mother tongue is vitalNoel Pearson writes in The Australian on the existential problems of Indigenous Australians, and by extension, other minority cultures ("Where are...
View ArticleLanguage Activist recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours
Channel Nine: Language lover listed in Queen's honoursArrernte elder, Veronica Mary Dobson has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the indigenous community as a linguist,...
View ArticleBreath of Life Project
In: UTA helps Native Americans learn to save own languages, The Arlington Star Telegram Reports on the Breath of Life Program.The program is "a joint effort by experts from the University of Texas at...
View ArticleAl-Jazeera on Libyan Berbers
Al-Jazeera English reports on Amazigh speakers in Libya.Although the language appears not to be endangered (Ethnologue reports the language to have at least 2,540,000 speakers in Algeria, and it isn't...
View ArticleFastCompany reports on LiveAndTell
LiveAndTell, A Crowdsourced Quest To Save Native American LanguagesFastCompany reports on the LiveAndTell Project. Originally set up "as an efficient, easy-to-use way to pass the Lakota Sioux language...
View ArticleABC Reports on Indigenous translation of National Anthem
In Kutju Australia, our land is girt by red dust, ABC reports on a new translation of the Australian National Anthem into Loritja Pintupi.The translation was undertaken by "politician Alison Anderson...
View ArticleCrikey Reposts a Paradisec post.
In Deeply depressing news from the North – the slow death of bilingualism in remote Northern Territory schools, Bob Gosford reports on a post by Jane Simpson on the Endangered Langauges and Cultures...
View ArticleThe Economist on the Berber Spring
In Springtime for them too?, The Economist reports on the "Berber renaissance taking place across north Africa", alongside the Arab Spring.The article notes that "Moroccan Berber" has recently been...
View ArticleThe Age: New chapter for ancient songbook
In New chapter for ancient songbook, Andrew Bock writes about The Song Peoples Sessions, a project to produce both archival material, and commercial releases of traditional and contemporary indigenous...
View ArticleThe Age on Children's books
In Silly Stories with a serious message, Elisabeth Tarica reports on The Naked boy and the Crocodile, a book edited by children's author Andy Griffiths but comprised of "13 stories written and...
View ArticleBerenstain Bears in Lakota
A new children's cartoon series, featuring the Berenstain Bears is to be aired in Lakota , called "Matho Waunsila Thiwahe" or "Compassionate Bear Family". I first saw this article in the Dickinson...
View ArticleAll words in Ninde start with N
In An Idiot Abroad, Series 2 Episode 1, "Desert Island", the protagonist spends a night alone on a small island in Vanuatu, after meeting with the residents of a nearby island for some instruction and...
View ArticleELA on Today Programme
This morning's Today Programme, on BBC Radio 4, included an item on the Endangered Language Alliance. The report stated that they are mostly working with the New York members of various diasporas, and...
View ArticleLast of the Manchus
In The last of the Manchus: Et tu Manchu,The Economist reports on the decline of the Manchu language from "National Language of a vast empire" to near extinction in just a century, putting a human face...
View ArticleBBC and Independent report on Andaman dictionary
In First Andaman dictionary a 'linguistic treasure trove', Alastair Lawson reports on Prof. Anvita Abbi's forthcoming Multilingual Dictionary of Great Andamanese, containing content from Bo, Khora,...
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