The Ostana Prize starts today and here is the programme in English! 3 days of celebrating brilliant minds & big ideas at the festival of language diversity, 3 days “en convivéncia” with the 8 awarded autors. 🔥"The fire still glows beneath the embers" will be our motto this year

Interesting news on Google's expansion of translation support: blog.google/products/trans…

An interview with Abduweli Ayup Abduweli Ayup, recent winner of the first Language Rights Defenders Award: coalitionforlanguagerights.org/post/interview…

MCIS’s microgrants celebrate and support vital #languageadvocacy work across Canada by funding projects that preserve #Indigenous languages, assist newcomers, and improve #healthcare communication. hubs.ly/Q02F8XFJ0 #language #nolanguageleftbehind #LAD24 #SocialPurposeMCIS

This column by David Rennie 任大伟 in the The Economist looks at language and education in a place where I've conducted extensive research (the Tibetan town of Rebgong). It gets the overall picture right, but misleads by omitting important details - short 🧵 economist.com/china/2024/06/…

A lovely post on the revival of traditional Nepalese writing: aljazeera.com/features/2024/…

New episode! Talking with Katie Martin katie about the work and ideas of Noam Chomsky and celebrating Uyghur language with Abduweli Ayup, recipient of Global Coalition for Language Rights 2024 Language Rights Defenders Award. Incredible stuff. In your listening app now. becauselanguage.com/101-talkin-cho…

We're hiring! Applications for ELP internships during the 2024-2025 academic year are now open. ⁠ Learn more about the positions, and apply by August 8: bit.ly/ELPinterns2024 ⁠ #IndigenousLanguages #LanguageRevitalization #EndangeredLanguages

A call for better support and awareness for Sami languages in Finland: coe.int/en/web/europea…

Language rights issues surfacing in negotiations over Ukraine: euractiv.com/section/europe…

N|uu, The World's Most Endangered Language, Has Just One Fluent Speaker Left iflscience.com/nuu-the-worlds… Mercator Network Global Coalition for Language Rights Terralingua & Langscape Magazine International Decade of Indigenous Languages #indigenouslanguages

An important piece on the suppression of languages and identities in Asia by Dr Gerald Roche : internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…

An insightful news story highlighting the lack of support for indigenous languages in Australia - and the cultural value for the author in learning their ancestral language, Kooma, which is critically endangered.

The Council of Europe has called for challenges of minorities in Bosnia to be addressed, including lack of support for minority languages: n1info.ba/english/news/c…

A very interesting report on the ELEN-Catesco conference, with discussion of language rights and access to education in minoritised languages: elen.ngo/2024/06/22/ele…

Lack of access to speech and language therapy is itself an issue of language rights, affecting the next generation: tes.com/magazine/news/…

We at 7000 Languages are excited to invite you to join us for our upcoming Fellowship Showcase. Join us on August 22nd to celebrate our Fellows and all their hard work. Register for free and support more fellows via the link in bio!

Save the Date: Our next Networking Event is approaching! 📆 Focusing on media in minority languages, the event will provide insights from different people active in film, print and online media in their language communities and open up spaces for exchange! eventbrite.at/e/media-inside…

Today is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples - a good time to remember that the rights to use indigenous languages and writing systems are enshrined in the 2007 UN declaration. viewsproject.wordpress.com/endangered-wri…

An interesting article showing how language can be eroded even in unexpected ways: theconversation.com/bilingualism-u…