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
Every race and language has their affirmative “uh-huhs,” their quizzical “hmms,” and their verbal tics, but the Scandinavians seem to have turned them into a key mode of communication.
Michael Booth • The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
A species is “possibly extinct” when, on “the balance of evidence,” it seems likely to have vanished but its disappearance has not yet been confirmed. Among the hundreds of animals that are currently listed as “possibly extinct” are: the gloomy tube-nosed bat, Miss Waldron’s red colobus, Emma’s giant rat, and the New Caledonian nightjar. Several sp
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
at least they are able to communicate with other members of their species.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
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
Like rejoicing, the world’s unspoken languages are rushing into my head.
Indra Sinha • Animal's People
The animacy of the world is something we already know, but the language of animacy teeters on extinction—not just for Native peoples, but for everyone.