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Evangelia Adamou 🦋
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Linguist, Senior Researcher at CNRS, Paris — New books📙ENDANGERED LANGUAGES, MIT press https://bit.ly/3WdDmra
📘 UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE CONTACT, Routledge
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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · Aug 7
My book ENDANGERED LANGUAGES is published today by the @mitpress.bsky.social Essential Knowledge Series

#books #audiobooks #linguistics #languages #anthropology

mitpress.mit.edu/978026254870...
Endangered Languages
A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.58% of the world's languages—or, a...
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tuned into some of the nunavut election broadcast and it was so cool to see how seamlessly they switched between english and (what i assume was) inuktitut. we should really be hearing more of the indigenous languages in canada.
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Rick Harp @mediaindigena.bsky.social tonight at the BFF symposium at UBC-Vancouver:

"Indigenous language revitalization is climate change solution."

A glorious possibility. And we have also to deal with oligarch nihilism for our planet and for all of the Peoples. Begin by disbelieving them.
Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes - UBCevents
How have Indigenous narratives helped Indigenous peoples cope with and confront climate change? What does it mean to see and story climate change not so much as a problem, but […]
events.ubc.ca
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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fernandaedi.bsky.social
Manitoba is expanding its degree programs in Ojibwe and Cree. This is an example of the good that can happen when you elect a progressive, indigenous leader to run things.
Wab Kinew is with the University of Winnipeg and University College of the North. He says: “Every day, all of us speak indigenous languages - even if we don’t realize it. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Now we’re taking action to keep those languages alive. Starting in 2026, new indigenous languages degree programs at UWinnipeg and UCN will train the next generation of Ojibwe and Cree teachers. Let’s lift up our shared heritage and build One Manitoba for all of us.”
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
evangelia.bsky.social
“the title of my book, is derived from the traditional way to give the morning greeting in Secwepemctsin - that's my family's language, my Indigenous language.

We say tsecwinucw-k, which doesn't actually translate to good morning. It means you survived the night.”

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
'We Survived the Night' tells a story of survival and the Indigenous experience
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Julian Brave NoiseCat, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer, about his new book, "We Survived the Night."
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October 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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The 2025 revitalization showcase from @e-l-p.bsky.social looks like it will be a wonderful celebration of different revitalization projects from around the world. Not the best timing for an Australian audience, but tune in if you're elsewhere.
endangeredlanguages.com/event/ready-...
Ready to Revitalize: 2025 Project Showcase | Endangered Languages Project
endangeredlanguages.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
evangelia.bsky.social
Mandana Seyfeddinipur talks about endangered languages

www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
BBC Audio | Start the Week | Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes
Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin, with Adam Rutherford
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October 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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In honor of Indigenous People's Day, here's a very brief timeline of the revitalization of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.
hilo.hawaii.edu/chancellor/s...
Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi! ʻŌlelo Resource of the Month: A timeline of significant milestones for Hawaiian language - UH Hilo Stories
In the second of a new monthly column, UH Hilo Director of Native Hawaiian Engagement Pele Harman shares a timeline of significant milestones for Hawaiian language.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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koahnic.bsky.social
After an intensive two-year adult immersion program, the number of fluent Spokane Salish language speakers nearly doubled. Some of those program graduates will be hired on as full-time language teaching staff as the tribe expands its language revitalization efforts.
October 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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“We carry forward languages that were nearly lost. We raise our children with teachings that go back generations. We protect sacred lands and sacred stories. We organize, vote, protest, create, lead, teach, and thrive.” #IndigenousPeoplesDay
October 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Rematriation is a short video series that centers the voices of 9 Indigneous women.

It is led by an all women team, directors and producers, Katsitsionni Fox (Mohawk) and Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida), cinematographer, Marie Cecile Dietlin, and multiple editors...

#IndigenousPeoplesDay
October 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Because I think better in pictures, here is a visualisation of languages according to documentation and endangerment status (I'm calling it glottocloud).

glottolog.org/langdoc/status
Graphic distribution of languages represented as dots in a two-dimensional space. X: AES (endangerment level, ranging from "extinct" to "not endangered" Y: MED (documentation level, ranging from "wordlist or less" to "long grammar"
October 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The Irish subtitles for House of Guinness are a nice touch.
A screenshot from House of Guinness with a subtitle that reads “Bhí cruinniú again ansin le Coiste na mBan.”
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
evangelia.bsky.social
“Indigenous teenager teaches Paakantyi language to teachers at Menindee school” 👏🏼

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Teenage student becomes Indigenous language teacher at outback NSW school
Jaz Fusi has been passionate about learning Paakantyi language for most of her life. Now, she teaches it to her local school's teachers and is eager to see other kids do the same.
www.abc.net.au
October 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
evangelia.bsky.social
“Aptly, the feuding families at the centre of the drama are divided in this retelling by language, with the Capulets speaking English and the Montagues Cymraeg.”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘The language adds a whole new level’: Welsh-English version of Romeo and Juliet heads for the Globe
Bilingual production by Theatr Cymru is expected to be first time Welsh will be heard at South Bank venue
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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andrewgarrett.bsky.social
Come be my colleague! UC Berkeley Linguistics has a tenure-track position in language revitalization.

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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kirbyconrod.bsky.social
wild fucking name, would love to see an indigenous linguist get this (grant for grad research)
August 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
It's by Josh Nilson, a Métis video game developer and founder of East Side Games and co-founder of Miskwā Games and MétisLife.

They're using the popular gaming platform Roblox to teach Michif through a new game called Michif RP.

Love that it is Native game developer doing it.

#LangSky
July 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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📻 Environ 7 000 langues sont parlées dans le monde, mais celui-ci est dominé par une vingtaine de langues ! Qu'en est-il des autres ? Eclairage avec @evangelia.bsky.social, linguiste au LACITO @cnrs.fr sur @rfi.fr 👉 www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
De vive(s) voix - Quelles initiatives pour préserver les langues en danger ?
Environ 7 000 langues sont parlées dans le monde, mais celui-ci est dominé par une vingtaine de langues ! Qu'en est-il des autres ? En cette décennie des langues autochtones décidée par l'UNESCO, RFI…
www.rfi.fr
July 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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geraldroche.bsky.social
The recently concluded Yoorrook Justice Commission found that the colonization of Victoria, which involved "massacres, disease, sexual violence, child removal, cultural erasure and linguicide," amounted to genocide. This thread provides the report's text on the loss of First Nations' languages.
July 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Buried deep down the #BBC news website under ‘Also in the news’… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians
It is the country's first formal
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July 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
evangelia.bsky.social
Job alert: two PostDocs to work in Paris on the semantic typology of
shape, as part of the ERC Synergy project SHAPE www.ntnu.edu/shape/

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

and

emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

#linguistics
SHAPE: The system of shape representations in cognition, development and across languages - NTNU
www.ntnu.edu
June 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
evangelia.bsky.social
Our database of the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is now available online!

#linguistics

abla.cnrs.fr/features/ abla.cnrs.fr/features/
ABLA
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June 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
evangelia.bsky.social
And an excerpt from Endangered Languages that echoes with the experiences of so many speakers of minoritized and Indigenous languages

#linguistics
Even when populations were spared such extreme, violent policies of cultural and language assimilation, the devaluation of Indigenous and minoritized languages was institutionalized in day schools. Stories abound across minoritized and Indigenous language communities worldwide about how pupils were punished and disparaged when they used their community and home languages at school and beyond. Ngügi recounts his experience: One of the most humiliating experiences was to be caught speaking Gikuyu in the vicinity of the school. The culprit was given corporal punishment-three to five strokes of the cane on bare buttocks—or was made to carry a metal plate around the neck with inscriptions such as I AM STUPID or, I AM A DONKEY. Sometimes the culprits were fined money they could hardly afford. And how did the teachers catch the culprits? A button was initially given to one pupil who was supposed to hand it over to whoever was caught speaking his mother tongue. Whoever had the button at the end of the day would sing who had given it to him and the ensuing process would bring out all the culprits of the day.?9
May 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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“In prison I began to think in a more systematic way about language,” he told the Guardian in 2006. “Why was I not detained before, when I wrote in English?” He decided from then on to write in Gikuyu, that “the only language I could use was my own”.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
evangelia.bsky.social
First paper in Glossa Contact exemplifies LVP with a case study from Abui (Timor-Alor-Pantar language family), spoken in east Indonesia.

Consider submitting your own research!

#linguistics

www.glossacontact.org/index.php/gc...
Late Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific | Glossa Contact
www.glossacontact.org
May 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM