Donated: $7290 Still needed: $2710 Time left: 4 hours……. What’s the Endangered Alphabets up to? We’re going back to the big-picture thinking that no other organization in the world is doing: we’re in the middle of our Red List campaign to track down every script currently in use in the world and assess just […]
This column aims to celebrate and draw attention to people doing original calligraphy and type design in their traditional minority script. In most cases, this act of revitalization is taking place in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia or Africa, as these are the regions with the greatest number of minority scripts. Today, though, we’re celebrating […]
In my past life as a film reviewer, people sent me movies all the time for review; thirty years later, it was a surprise and a pleasure to be sent The Volunteer Archivists by Subhashish Panigrahi, the film’s cameraperson, sound recordist, director and producer and a longtime advocate for open-source media about cultural and linguistic […]
Switching between languages? Hard enough. How about switching between scripts? Even after working on the Endangered Alphabets for 12 years, I’m still just starting to understand how Eurocentric and provincial my own thinking, like that of most of us in the West, has been, and continues to be. Despite all my work in scores of […]
