Jabal al-Lughat

People tend to enter their first linguistics classes with a vague but strongly felt idea, instilled by English teachers or by society at lar...

Aljazeera English is doing an interesting series on language endangerment and revitalisation: * Language on the brink , talking with the las...

I recently found a forum for the town of Igli, about 150 km north of Tabelbala as the crow flies. Igli's traditional language is a Berb...

Not everyone welcomes language revitalisation efforts. Apart from anything else, it often implies that a major decision taken by you or you...

Came across a great new site, the Oneida Language Revitalisation Program , consisting mainly of an extensive audio phrasebook of Oneida , th...

Dissertation all over, submitted, etc. - just enrolling for PhD... On a different note, I just found a spot-on cartoon about Tamazight (Berb...

The Economist reports on a Peruvian Congresswoman trying to raise the social status of Quechua by only speaking Quechua to Congress, forcin...

Interesting story on Tasmanian today... The last speaker of a Tasmanian language died in 1905 ( Wikipedia ), and little material survives, ...