Tag: endangered alphabets
An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: A New Book From Tim Brookes
The new book is a global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, the stories and cultures they carry with them, and the people who are trying to save them.
Writing Beyond Writing
The book is at once an historical overview of scripts, a memoir about carving endangered scripts, a manifesto that takes aim at the dominance of the Latin script, and — perhaps most vitally — a clarion call to save the scripts used by marginalized peoples around the world.
The Ambassadors
Brookes uses two examples of health crises while traveling to illustrate the need for high-quality translation services in hospitals around the world. While encouraging developers to make hospital-specific apps, Brookes also argues that only real language professionals can provide the initiative and compassion that is so valuable when a person’s health is on the line.
“Its Proper Shape” — Writing-Evolution Mythologies
Last column I looked at a number of writing-creation myths, and I suggested they be viewed not as superstitions. Instead, I see them as a sign many cultures had a much clearer sense of the remarkable value and meaning of writing than we do — so much so that they include the birth of writing in their narratives of who they are, and how they came to be.
Endangered Writing Systems
In 1964, one of the most important acts in the history of environmental conservation took place: the International Union for Conservation of Nature published the Red List of Threatened Species.
Weekly Shorts | April 9, 2021
Former TrustPoint CEO joins XRTF advisory board
The former CEO of TrustPoint Translations, Claes H. Holm, has been revealed as the latest member of XTRF’s...
Conversations with Character(s)
Of the world’s approximately 7,000 languages, around 4,000 are written. Though many of us, certainly those of us from secure linguistic communities, take the...
The “Thank You All” Endangered Alphabets project launches
Each of the ten carvings will be commissioned to a calligrapher or type designer. The exhibition will act as a showcase for their art and it will show the world that their script is vital, alive, a means of self-expression and a thing of beauty, expressive of their culture and their people.
Kicking off the Year of Indigenous Languages with Endangered Alphabets
The United Nations has declared 2019 to be the Year of Indigenous Languages. More than 90% of the indigenous languages of both the United States and Australia are extinct or endangered.