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A great new resource for language revitalization and promotion! 🤩

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"Ch'ol is not simply a means of communication, it is the vehicle of a rich cultural tradition and ancestral knowledge" says José Raúl, who is creating workshop and videos for Mayan youth.

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Coming up tomorrow at 10am Pacific! We’re excited to share these stories of language champions around the world. These are deeply personal reflections on people’s relationships to their communities and languages, and the work they do to reclaim and revitalize them. bit.ly/LanguageAndL...

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The ADLI25 Summit will be a space to facilitate peer learning and exchange between Indigenous language digital activists, who are working to promote, preserve and revitalize Indigenous languages of Mexico in digital spaces

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“For me, language represents life, its connects me to my roots, my past, my culture, my family, my ancestors and my community,” explains Yamily Abigail Hu Yama.

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Please join us for the next #PROLang seminar with Carlos Yebra López to hear more about his book 'Ladino on the Internet', the first critical and systematic account written in English on the online revitalisation of Ladino. 🗓️ 25 February at 6pm 📍 Online ➡️ buff.ly/3Et3g3Q

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How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes theconversation.com/how-were-rec...

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ELP Language Revitalization Mentor, Yulha (and Norbu 🐶), is also looking stylish in the winter ELP shirt - a great way to show your support for Indigenous communities and languages! You can get your own at: bit.ly/ELP-shop

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New blog post: ELP intern Maison Ole Nkurrunah visits the Ogiek Cultural Centre in Narok County, Kenya, where language revitalization is tied with culture, community, and the struggle for land rights. Read it here: endangeredlanguages.com/blog/

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What a lovely and moving account of how #Irish is not confined to rural & Gaeltacht areas, and how it matters in an urban space like Dublin. #langsky #minoritizedlanguages

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“Speaking Irish in Dublin brings meaning and purpose to my life.” In a new essay for the Smithsonian’s Folklife Magazine, join ELP Mentor Alexandra Philbin on a train ride into Dublin, as she reflects on history, family, and the revival of the Irish language.

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✍️ 'Success of the Gaelic language, and its relevance to Scotland’s distinct identity, culture, and history, is a deeply personal aim' // Kate Forbes Read more... www.thenational.scot/politics/248...

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This International Mother Language Day, February 21, ELP invites you to a free screening of digital stories that explore the links between language, life, memory, and community. ⁠ Register at: bit.ly/LanguageAndL... ⁠

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“Even as a young girl, Eagleman-James could see how speaking Dakota transformed her grandfather into someone happier and more whole. ‘Our whole identity’ starts with language, she explained.”

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Come work with us, @risingvoices.bsky.social , and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage on the 2025 Language Lodge! Applications due January 24:

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📢 Final Call for Applications for HIGA! 2025, the 5th Summit of Young Speakers of Minoritized Languages, from July 14–18 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country! 🌍 Connect with youth worldwide, train in language revitalization, and share your story. Deadline to apply: January 10, 2025

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Congrats to the four speakers of Mayan Languages of Guatemala selected to our Catalyst Program for Indigenous Language Digital Activism. Learn more about the Program here: rising.globalvoices.org/catalyst/

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We love to see people all over the world rocking their ELP t-shirts, designed by Quechua children’s illustrator Nicaela León Coico! 🤩 If you’d like to support language revitalization and look cool doing it, you can get your own at bit.ly/ELP-shop

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"Happy New Year" from the brush of Tamir Purev. Tamir's Mongolian calligraphy will be in a special display of calligraphers working to revive their traditional scripts, on World Endangered Writing Day--23rd January 2025. Info and free registration at endangeredwriting.world.

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To celebrate the end of 2024, listen to the story that gave Points North national recognition! Kenny Pheasant first became a teacher of Anishinaabemowin at 14. Now, it’s his life mission to get more people speaking the Great Lakes’ original and endangered language.

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Happy new year from the ELP team, in our languages! 🎊🎉 We hope 2025 will be a year of peace, health, justice, and thriving communities and languages, all around the world.

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Do you know a language activist doing amazing work to protect and promote their language? Nominate them for the 2025 Linguapax Award:

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Internships: Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation, Text/Corpus Linguistics: An 8-week paid internship in Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum, Philadelphia, PA: Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Summer Undergraduate…

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An #article I co-authored w/ @markturin.bsky.social, N̓a̓ṇ̓gáinúx̌v & @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social is live on @theconversation.com! "Ensuring accurate character #encoding that is predictable on all operating systems is a cornerstone of #language justice" theconversation.com/why-is-it-so... #langsky

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We’re hiring! ELP is seeking a Language Revitalization Mentor to support communities in North America and beyond. Read the full position description and apply by January 24 at: bit.ly/ELPMentor2024

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“We have our own way of producing knowledge, science and wisdom. We have our own languages and our own forms of justice, a different cosmovision of nature. We have a lot to offer." english.elpais.com/education/20... #langsky

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New speakers - people learning and reclaiming a language - are key to any language revitalization movement. 🌱 Understanding what motivates people to reclaim and learn their languages is an important part of revitalization work. A new book explores these issues in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic):

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“Around half the world’s languages will no longer be in use by the end of this century… I argue that only a global mass movement has the capacity to change the course of this crisis, [and] a rights-based approach, centred on language rights, is our best bet for organising such a movement.”

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Good news from the US: the current presidential administration has released a 10-Year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization. It calls for a $16.7 billion investment in language revitalization programs across the United States during the UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages.

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Dr. Genner Llanes-Ortiz raises the issue of data sovereignty in the context of AI. While he admires the systems Tochi describes, he is concerned that language data is being scraped and ingested, not always with the consent of indigenous people whose data is being used. #GVsummit2024

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It’s #GivingTuesday, and a lot of worthy organizations are asking for your support. We’d like to humbly request that you consider supporting #IndigenousLanguages and #LanguageRevitalization by donating to ELP today. bit.ly/donate-ELP We’d love to share some words from the folks we work with:

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I've never clicked faster on a Cyber Monday deal. Take 💳 my 💳 money 💳 ! 🤩

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The first-ever ELP t-shirts are here - a Cyber Monday purchase you can actually feel good about! All proceeds go directly to support ELP’s free programs in Indigenous language revitalization. bit.ly/ELP-shop

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ELP and the Concejo de Los Pueblos Originarios invite you to stand in solidarity with Indigenous migrant communities ✊ Join us on Dec. 2 at 1pm Pacific, for “Building Community Networks of Dignity and Solidarity: Indigenous Languages and Cultural Identities are a Human Right” bit.ly/ELP-Concejo

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Applications close on Monday at 11:59pm Pacific - be sure to apply by then! bit.ly/rtr2025

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Did you know that fewer than 20 people could hold conversations about daily topics in the Lingít language? That there are six remaining master-level birth speakers? That you can take Lingít classes for free at UAS and through Haa Tóoch Lichéesh and Tlingit & Haida? You can watch online, too.

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Marlene Sánchez works with children to strengthen the Ch’ol language through theater. In the future, she would like to have a cultural center to document and represent the stories and knowledge of her community.

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Thanks to the generosity of fluent speakers past and present, you can hear Hoocąk 24/7 at WAZI Nąįnąwą 🌲 (Radio WAZI) bit.ly/WAZI - Hoocąk hįįt’ekjawino!

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ELP and the Concejo de Los Pueblos Originarios invite you to stand in solidarity with Indigenous migrant communities ✊ Join us on Dec. 2 at 1pm Pacific, for “Building Community Networks of Dignity and Solidarity: Indigenous Languages and Cultural Identities are a Human Right” bit.ly/ELP-Concejo

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