35.328, FYI: World Endangered Writing Day

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-328. Mon Jan 29 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.328, FYI: World Endangered Writing Day

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Date: 26-Jan-2024
From: Tim Brookes [tim at endangeredalphabets.com]
Subject: World Endangered Writing Day


All of the the talks and discussion sessions that comprised World
Endangered Writing Day (on January 23rd) have been recorded and are
available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYG37Sb2buKjaMtjzt
HjDc5pSS1a1jorr. They include talks on the latest research in khipu,
redefinitions of writing from the viewpoint of grapholinguistics,
language and script study and support in the pluralistic state of
Sikkim (India), the relationship between cultural identity and
typeface design, Unicode and the digitization of neographies,
instructional design for teaching the Dongba script of Lijiang, China,
via MOOC, the lessons to be learned about script endangerment from
lost scripts of the ancient world, and a case study in mother-tongue
and mother-script education and revival among indigenous communities
in Bangladesh. Discussion also included the tension between the
development of ChatGPT and writing as a manual art.

Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable




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