Al-Monitor: Copts, Nubians, and Berbers fight to keep Egypt’s endangered languages alive. “With a population of over 118 million, Egypt is home to distinct minorities with their own traditions, beliefs and languages that have enriched Egypt’s cultural identity for millennia. Some of these languages are on the brink of extinction, however, and some of their speakers are refusing to let […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/al-monitor-copts-nubians-and-berbers-fight-to-keep-egypts-endangered-languages-alive/

Google Blog: Explore the world around you in 30 endangered languages with Google AI. “First launched in 2021, Woolaroo is an AI experiment from Google Arts & Culture that lets you snap a photo and learn the words for your surroundings in 30 endangered languages…. This year, we’re including 10 new languages from Africa, plus new languages from Brazil, Mexico, Turkey and Scotland. Our […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/15/google-blog-explore-the-world-around-you-in-30-endangered-languages-with-google-ai/

Last Chance! Our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is today! Join us for either meeting. Links in bio.

Just a reminder - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is coming up soon! Join us on July 6th for an engaging discussion and the latest updates. Link in bio.

Don’t forget - our next Script Keepers Network Zoom meeting is just around the corner! Join us on July 6th for great discussion and updates. Links in bio.

Meet Tim Brookes: linguist, writer and founder of the Script Keepers Network. His work reminds us that every script tells a story - and some are at risk of being lost forever. So come join our next meeting on July 6th - link in bio.

A glimpse into Batak manuscripts from North Sumatra! Protecting threatened practices like this is why we do what we do. Join our July 6th meeting - link in bio.

Come join us on July 6th for our upcoming meetings for an engaging discussion of endangered and emerging scripts - particularly looking into our ongoing SKN projects. Everyone is welcome - every background and experience can bring something to the table.

Who knows what this script is? Photographed here is a bamboo/wood carving of an endangered script, and here at the Script Keepers Network, we have many different ongoing projects that we would love people to join. If you’re interested, there are two upcoming SKN meetings - on July 6th 9-10 am EST, and 4-5 pm EST. This is just one of the many things you could be a part of! Links in bio.

Full list of Europe’s 52 ‘severely endangered’ languages – one has just 20 speakers | World | News https://www.byteseu.com/1082468/ #EndangeredLanguages #Europe #Europe'sSeverelyEndangeredLanguages #LanguagePreservation #LanguagesInEurope #LeastSpokenLanguagesInEurope #RareLanguagesInEurope #RarestLanguagesInEurope #UNESCO

Dartmouth College: Language Preservation Efforts Get an AI Boost. “… computer science graduate student Ivory Yang, Guarini, who remembers learning a few words of Nüshu from her grandmother as a child, is exploring how artificial intelligence models offer new ways to preserve and help revitalize the rare script. Yang and her collaborators… built an AI-driven framework called NüshuRescue […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/dartmouth-college-language-preservation-efforts-get-an-ai-boost/

#Portraits capture the #FacesOfAmerica's endangered #languages https://zorz.it/CKjyI | #JessicaStewart #diversity #BAVanSise #photojournalist #EndangeredLanguages #DiverseCultures #CulturalHeritage #ArtisticImages #AmericanHistory

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English

'Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American'

#society #US #language #EndangeredLanguages #linguistics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english

The Conversation: How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes. “Before the iPod came along, people recorded their favourite tunes straight from the radio. Some of us made home recordings with our sibling and grandparents – precious childhood snippets. And a few of us even have recordings from that time we travelled to a village in Vanuatu, some 40 years […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/the-conversation-how-were-recovering-priceless-audio-and-lost-languages-from-old-decaying-tapes/

Princeton University: Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that. . “Happy Buzaaba’s research as a data engineer is centered on introducing more African languages into LLMs. There are over 7,000 languages in the world today, he said, and around 2,000 of these are spoken on the African continent. Yet not more than […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/11/princeton-university-millions-on-the-african-continent-cant-fully-benefit-from-the-ai-revolution-this-princeton-course-aims-to-change-that/

Happy Shimakutuba Day ! To celebrate, I created the page on English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimakutuba_Day
Please add to it ;)
#okinawa #linguistic #endangeredlanguages #languages

Finally! Been on the waiting list for this book for eva’… #endangeredlanguages

The Aramaic original New Testament theory is the belief that the Christian New Testament was originally written in Aramaic. #MostDiscussed #Iran #AncientNearEast #Assyria #Bible #Syria #AlternativeViews #Judaism #Iraq #Christianity #Palestine #EndangeredLanguages #Lebanon https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/353480

Free and #OpenAccess:
Nicolas Tournadre and Hiroyuki Suzuki. 2023. The Tibetic Languages: an introduction to the family of languages derived from Old Tibetan.
From the description:
"This #book is an introduction to the family of #languages derived from Old #Tibetan. These languages are spoken on the Tibetan plateau, in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The Tibetic-speaking area is nowadays located in six countries: #China, #Pakistan, #India, #Nepal, #Bhutan, and #Myanmar. Some of the smallest languages are seriously endangered, and likely to disappear soon."
From the table of contents, it covers so much across the 1100+ pages; #sociolinguistics, #culture, #history, #religion, #script and #calligraphy, ##epigraphy, alongside everything #linguistics, #etymology, #grammar, #lexicon and effects of contact languages. #language #EndangeredLanguages #Tibet
https://lacito.cnrs.fr/en/tibetic-languages/

I get why this is the sort of story #scicomm publications want to run with, but it's really not a meaningful question in #linguistics, and trying to make it more answerable by basing #language age on #languages with #writing is not the greatest message as it implies that many of those unwritten #endangeredlanguages they mention have less value.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-the-worlds-oldest-language/