Tag: endangered alphabets
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.
