36.247, FYI: World Endangered Writing Day II

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-247. Sat Jan 18 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.247, FYI: World Endangered Writing Day II

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Date: 17-Jan-2025
From: Tim Brookes [tim at endangeredalphabets.com]
Subject: World Endangered Writing Day II


World Endangered Writing Day II
January 23rd 2025
A day of talks, discussions, activities, awards and games in support
of the world’s minority and indigenous scripts and their communities.
The world has 300 writing systems, but 90% of them are threatened—not
used for official purposes, not taught in schools, ignored or actively
suppressed.
This crisis is almost universally ignored. There are no degree
programs in writing systems or script loss, no government agencies
dedicated to addressing the issue, no funding available for research
or revival.
First launched on January 23rd 2024, World Endangered Writing Day is
starting to change all that.
The inaugural event introduced community members from all over the
world working to save their cultures by saving their scripts, scholars
studying rare writing systems and typographers designing fonts for
minority languages.
The second edition of World Endangered Writing Day, on January 23rd,
2025, will:
• premiere a documentary about a remarkable script from the
Philippines used by Mangyans to carve their own unique form of poetry
into bamboo;
• showcase a new syllabary from South Africa based on the artwork
traditionally used to paint logograms on houses;
• present a gallery of calligraphers who are reviving their scripts
through art;
• discuss the development of fonts for the world’s least-used
languages;
• explore the emerging world of Wikipedia sites created by minority
communities—in their own languages and scripts;
• learn about the revival of the Amazigh people of North Africa;
• analyze forms of writing from all over the world that expand our
understanding of what writing is, and what it can do.
Once again the Endangered Alphabets project will be presenting
certificate awards in several categories to people who are doing
outstanding work to revive their scripts and cultures, and giving away
books in or about minority scripts.
And on the lighter side, the website at endangeredwriting.world will
offer a quiz and an online game, both with prizes.
The live events begin at 8:00 EST. Join people across the globe to
celebrate and support efforts in preserving writing systems as part of
humanity's intangible cultural heritage.
Registration
Register free for the livestream activities at
https://www.endangeredwriting.world/events
For more information, contact admin at endangeredalphabets.com.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Writing Systems




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