Deep in #Papua New Guinea, the speakers of #Tayap have stopped using their native tongue. In 'A Death in the Rainforest', an anthropologist recounts his journey over three decades to find out why.
#BritishColumbia’s legislature, described as the province’s symbol of #colonialism, now has a series of #IndigenousLanguage#signs with seven messages about ancestors, warriors, settlers and children permanently bolted to the building’s stone sidewalk perimeter.
Messages written in the #Lekwungen#Indigenous language and English were #unveiled Wednesday at an outdoor ceremony at the 125-year-old building..
Happy Indigenous People's Day! Fitting that today we approved the proof to produce this historical marker to honor Ḵaax̱gal.aat #ElizabethPeratrovich a Tlingit civil rights hero who was born in my town and credited with helping to pass the US's first major civil rights legislation, #Alaska 's Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945. The text is written by L'xeis Diane Benson and translated to Tlingit by X'unei Lance Twitchell. We'll be putting it up once it gets shipped here!
Most importantly, he wants to see them learn the #LifeSkills they need to be independent, which will allow them to be successful in further education and beyond, he said. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6963195
Learn X̱aad Kíl (the language of Haida people) Dag júus Rob Yates, a Haida language scholar and cultural coordinator, is Alaskan Haida and lives and works in his ancestral village of K’áaws Tláay.
Sept 12 - Oct 26, 2023
Class Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00pm - 1:00pm AKDT
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The X̱aad Kíl MOOC is free and open to all skill levels. Families are especially welcome!
Here’s the latest outrage from me in my small self-constructed #linguistic / #lexicographic hell. I have spent three years making dictionaries for SANLU, an independent company that stepped in to help produce #indigenouslanguage#dictionaries because the state completely failed to do so (despite constitutional imperatives). Now this is happening - see attached pics.
Four [#native#languages spoken by #tribes in #Sarawak are now #extinct according to the national literary & cultural agency Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Sarawak director, Abang Haliman Abang Julai, said that according to #researchers the #Seru , #Pegu , #Bliun & #Lelak languages were now no longer in use.]