If you’ve been following this blog or reading the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets, you’ll be well aware of the Adinkra symbols of Ghana. Nearby, though, there is another and much less well-known set of symbols. Darius Adjong has been researching them for a guest column for the Endangered Alphabets. He writes: Like the Adinkra symbols […]
Attention, last-minute shoppers! This is the last weekend when gifts are (pretty much) guaranteed to arrive before Christmas, so now’s the time to seize those one-of-a-kind items for those hard-to-please people. Check out the unique Endangered Alphabets merchandise, guaranteed to fascinate anyone interested in language and writing, at https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/endangered-alphabets-merchandise/. Your friends and family will be […]
2021 has been a bizarrely contradictory one for the Endangered Alphabets. On the one hand, it has been our most ambitious and successful year of our 11-year life. Highlights include: * the creation of Ulus: Legends of the Nomads, an entirely original tabletop game designed to promote traditional Mongolian culture, language, and calligraphy that is […]
The Sancha Lipi—that is, Sancha scripts—are a family of related scripts from northern India. They were brought to my attention by the ever-vigilant Biswajit Mandal. An elementary teacher from Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, he is also a linguist, font creator, and linguistic content supplier for Omniglot and the Endangered Alphabets. He was one […]
As a former Brit, I’m still not used to this Black Friday madness, but I’m all in favor of helping you with your holiday shopping, so here goes: as of this moment, you can get 20% off EVERYTHING in the Endangered Alphabets store at https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/endangered-alphabets-merchandise/ by using the discount code thanks21 at checkout. That includes our […]
At this very moment, someone is working to create a new, unique script for their culture and their language. We know of more than 125 scripts that were created by individuals on behalf of their people, most of which have struggled to gain acceptance and wide and prolonged usage, and for that reason they are […]
We’re used to reading the sad news that the last speaker of a language has died, and with them we lose not only that language’s vocabulary but its subtler infrastructure: its syntax, its tones, its use of tenses and sequences that may never have been recorded, or documented. The world of scripts is just as […]
Here’s the news several of you have already asked about: I think we met our Red List launch goal. Or rather you met our goal. (All I did was send out the annoying emails.) I can’t be entirely sure, as some of you chose to send checks rather than go through electronic transfers, and they […]
Just a quick note to say that it’s the last day of our Red List fundraising effort, and with less than $1000 to go, we’re like one of those arcade games where the slightest nudge will send the coin over the edge…. https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/how-to-support-us/
Our goal is to raise $11,500 by the end of the month, and we have roughly $2,500 to go. By now, you probably already know of my plan to create the Red List of Endangered and Emerging Alphabets, which will be the first-ever catalogue of all the world’s scripts, assessing the health (or vulnerability) of […]
