Today, August 9, is Indigenous Peoples Day. The Endangered Alphabets Project works to support indigenous peoples all round the world, but I must confess that for the first few years of the project I knew nothing about the indigenous peoples living right here around me. (I was going to write “In my own back yard,” […]
The latest Carving of the Week video: Beria! An indigenously-created script for the Zaghawa language of Chad and Sudan, its symbols were originally based on the ownership marks branded on camels and other livestock. More information on the script at endangeredalphabets.net/alphabets/beria.
Our latest Carving of the Week is Coptic! Video is up on our YouTube channel here: More information and links can be found in the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets at https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/alphabets/coptic/. As always, send us more links, more information, more photos if you have ’em. Good work by Kate Heppner, our resident videographer; special thanks […]
Here we go with our second Carving of the Week! Each time we add a script to the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets we launch it with a short video of me carving text in that script and giving a brief introduction to it. This week: Syriac, and the video is HERE. The full Syriac profile […]
