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Anthropologist • Linguist • Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim) & Bella Bella • University of British Columbia • Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies & Anthropology • sometimes with BBC Radio 4 and/or the UN https://markturin.arts.ubc.ca .. more

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Mark Turin @markturin.bsky.social · Mar 17
'Trump’s English language order upends America’s long multilingual history', co-authored with Ross Perlin theconversation.com/trumps-engli...
Trump’s English language order upends America’s long multilingual history
Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language until now. But Americans will not stop using languages other than English because of an executive order.
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · Dec 18
Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?
Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?
A recent update to the Unicode Standard means that Haíɫzaqvḷa can finally be fully written and read on all digital platforms.
theconversation.com

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Mark Turin @markturin.bsky.social · Dec 12
hi there, can you add me in? Many thanks

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Kevin King @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social · Nov 29
To @lianghai.dev Debbie Anderson and the @unicode.org, Aidan Pine, @markturin.bsky.social, @bchasemadethis.bsky.social, Leo Vicenti, and Cris Hernández of our Typotheque Indigenous North American Research project! www.typotheque.com/research/nor...
Typotheque: Typotheque Indigenous North American Type
Typotheque Indigenous North American Type: A Collaborative Research Project to Overcome Digital Language Support Barriers for Indigenous North American Typography
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