Last year, American author Ross Perlin won the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for his book "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues"
Ross Perlin wins the £25k British Academy Prize for his book on endangered languages
It's now the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4:
Linguist Ross Perlin is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history - contemporary New York.BBC Sounds - Language City by Ross Perlin - Available Episodes
Prof Perlin set up the ELA in NY:
Founded in 2010, the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) is a non-profit dedicated to documenting Indigenous, minority, and endangered languages, supporting linguistic diversity in New York City and beyond.Home - Endangered Language Alliance
Here's the project:
New York has long been a city of immigrants, but linguists now consider it a laboratory for studying and preserving languages in rapid decline elsewhere in the world.
N.Y./Region: City of Endangered Languages | The New York Times - YouTube
And there are indeed some very interesting projects coming out of this:
Revitalizing endangered Indigenous languages that have little or no digital presence is challenging with artificial intelligence—but not impossible.Some endangered language speakers get creative with AI preservation efforts — WHYY
On any given Sunday in New York City, an evangelical church of Guatemalan immigrants in Brooklyn worships in the indigenous Mayan language K’iche’; a South Indian Orthodox church in Queens chants liturgies in Syriac, the first-century descendant of Aramaic; and a Mennonite church in the Bronx conducts services in Garifuna, a rare language developed from the marriages of West African slaves and Indigenous Caribbean people.How NYC Churches Guard Endangered Languages - Christianity Today
The linguist’s celebration of the polyglot city inspires a series of shows at Manhattan’s Little Island..
.
.
No comments:
Post a Comment