On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many Languages
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On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many 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
Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose languages
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The six least spoken languages in the world - including one with just 1 speaker | World | News | Express.co.uk
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The Happiness Dictionary: Words from Around the World to Help Us Lead a Richer Life
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as 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
