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 […]
Here, thanks to a ridiculous amount of time on Photoshop (yes, I have been told it would have been easier in Illustrator, Indesign, or even Word), is what must surely be the first Word Search puzzle ever composed in Marma, one of the endangered indigenous languages of Bangladesh. The words, mostly for animals and fruit […]
No fewer than two opportunities to see the Endangered Alphabets (and me) this week if you’re in Vermont, upstate New York or Quebec. On Thursday evening at 6 p.m., the Alphabets are part of a double-exhibition at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. One part features artwork from 19th-century expeditions led by Norwich grads; the Alphabets […]
