Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
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Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
In December of 2022, British contemporary artist Es Devlin installed a public sculpture in concert with the Endangered Language Alliance, “Your Voices,” outside of New York’s Lincoln Center. The work responds to anthropologist Wade Davis’s observation: “Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Indigenous languages around the world are more than communication systems; they carry cultural identity, ecological knowledge, and unique ways of relating to the world (Lijphart, 1979; Kimmerer, 2014). Many encode perspectives on nature that have developed through generations of lived experience and continue to shape how communities interact with
... See moreas we lose languages, that loss is reflected in plant and animal extinctions. As we create an increasingly homogenous human culture, we are rapidly losing the broad diversity of knowledge necessary to our tending of the land upon which we are dependent, as well as the ability to commune with and protect the other beings who call it home.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Of course forces of colonization want me to think my time is something to sell . But I think when we can start to see these languages that have been systematically killed off as doors to a different way of seeing the world (versus just a group of vocabulary words), we can start to understand why they might want to silence a differing perspective.