[lg policy] Why I’m on a Mission to Save Endangered Languages

[Harold Schiffman]

Why I’m on a Mission to Save Endangered Languages
<http://glossynews.com/society/human-interest/201609020544/why-im-on-a-mission-to-save-endangered-languages/>

Posted on 02 September 2016. Tags: Buryat
<http://glossynews.com/tag/buryat/>, dying languages
<http://glossynews.com/tag/dying-languages/>, language and globalisation
<http://glossynews.com/tag/language-and-globalisation/>, language extinction
<http://glossynews.com/tag/language-extinction/>, languages
<http://glossynews.com/tag/languages/>, linguistic diversity
<http://glossynews.com/tag/linguistic-diversity/>, Mongolia
<http://glossynews.com/tag/mongolia/>, tribalingual
<http://glossynews.com/tag/tribalingual/>
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When I learned that Buryat, the northern-Siberian language of my
grandparents, was in danger of dying out, I knew then and there that I had
to do something. But from a remote part of the Mongolian steppes, I felt
powerless to act. I was lucky enough to come to the UK to study modern
languages and subsequently focus on language policy and revitalisation
during my master’s degrees.

5 years on, I am now founder and CEO of a newly-formed Cambridge-based
EdTech startup, Tribalingual, which is pledged to rescue endangered
languages from the brink of extinction. Read the full story
<http://glossynews.com/society/human-interest/201609020544/why-im-on-a-mission-to-save-endangered-languages/#more-54949>
http://glossynews.com/tag/language-extinction/


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