The newest member of the far-flung EndangeredAlphabets family is a young man in Bangladesh who may well hold the world record for the number of scripts he can write, and write with accuracy and grace. That number is… Wait for it…. 342. It says a great deal about the way we, especially those in […]
In another blog post, I have written about four people who were killed for having created writing systems for their people. We know of others, though, who have been persecuted for their work and, though not actually assassinated, died as a result of that persecution. One is Sultan Ibrahim Njoya; another is Sheikh Bakri Sapalo. […]
Not exactly an endangered alphabet, but certainly a confused letter. Or two. A guest blog by Hans de Wolf. Do you know that there is a well-educated civilized country in north-western part Europe, with a very high literacy rate, of which the language is spoken by about 23 million people – but were there is […]
This will be my next carving…. …because it expresses so perfectly what the Endangered Alphabets is all about. Sent to me by the Australian linguist Stephen Morey, who does groundbreaking work with minority cultures in northeast India, it is part of a song, sung by the Tai Phake people, a tiny community of about 250 […]
