I was honoured to receive an award from Translators Without Borders for spreading the word about the ghastly situation facing the Rohingya. The photo is of the phrase “Mother tongue” I carved in Hanifi Rohingya and sent to their HQ for display. Hats off to TWB for the work they do for people facing the […]
Hey, everyone. Work on the free online Atlas of Endangered Alphabets is proceeding briskly with research into the scripts themselves (at current count, 120!), images of the scripts in use, links to fonts/apps/keyboard software/organizations working to preserve the scripts, and so on as we promised during our recent successful Kickstarter campaign. HERE’S THE NEXT STAGE. […]
After a year in the designing, re-designing, testing, re-redesigning, and so on, Glagolitic Abbey is finally ready for production. Surely the first board game ever created with the aim of reviving interest in an endangered alphabet, the game is something like a cross between Clue (Cluedo, if you’re British) and Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of […]
Here’s the press release, in suitably official press release language: Half the world’s languages are in imminent danger of extinction—but Chittenden County word game lovers have the chance to help stop that decline. On Wednesday, December 13, area residents of the Champlain Valley region are invited to join the non-profit Endangered Alphabets Project at the […]
