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 […]
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 […]
ONLY FIVE DAYS LEFT to help us reach our goal of $11,500 to fund the launch of our project to create a Red List of Endangered and Emerging Alphabets. We are more than halfway there, but now the race is on. Please check out the video and back this groundbreaking work at https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/how-to-support-us/. Meanwhile, let […]
