The Rising Ocean Will Extinguish More Than Land. It Will Kill Entire 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
Mentre la drammatica devastazione di un uragano che cancella interi villaggi può trasformarne gli abitanti in rifugiati da un giorno all’altro, l’impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sulla vita della gente è di solito molto più graduale: un altro cattivo raccolto o un’altra stagione di caldo insopportabile, che diventa la goccia che fa traboccare il v
... See moreGaia Vince • Il secolo nomade: Come sopravvivere al disastro climatico (Italian Edition)
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
... See moreMary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
The loss of ancestral language not only means the extinction of cultural heritage, it is directly linked to our worldwide ecological collapse.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Language replacement always is accompanied by revised self–perceptions, a restructuring of the cultural classifications within which the self is defined and reproduced. Negative evaluations associated with the dying language lead to a descending series of reclassifications by succeeding generations, until no one wants to speak like Grandpa any more
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