The Endangered Alphabets Project has a vigorous and active presence on social media, using multiple channels for research, community building, and outreach.
Many of the minority communities we support, especially those that have been scattered, try to maintain a sense of identity by communicating through Facebook or WhatsApp groups, and we are constantly looking to find and contact them through these channels.
Meanwhile, a great many linguists and scholars discuss their work and discoveries on Twitter, which is also an invaluable avenue for the Alphabets, and professionals in the translation and localization industries are active on LinkedIn. We have steadily built our community of followers in both venues.
Conversely, we use all these channels on almost a daily basis to ask the global community research questions and to put out contact requests. As a result, the Endangered Alphabets Project has developed a highly respected identity worldwide, and people contact us all the time through social media to ask advice and to be connected to others who may be able to assist them in their revitalization work.
Our series of posts from Morocco on the revival of the Amazigh family of languages and the Tifinagh script was our most popular social media series. It introduced thousands of followers to the history, culture and language of the Amazigh people, and in turn introduced us to valuable Amazigh contacts all over the world.
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endangeredalphas/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tim.brookes.92/ and https://www.facebook.com/Endangered-Alphabets-166589506713085/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/endangered-alphabets-project
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/EndangeredAlpha
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EndangeredAlphabetsVideo
