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Sharing knowledge and building international networks to support language revitalization and documentation.

https://endangeredlanguages.com
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hello, Bluesky! We’re happy to be here! We’d like to introduce ourselves:

The Endangered Languages Project (ELP) is an organization supporting revitalization, reclamation, documentation, and advocacy of Indigenous, minoritized, and endangered languages all over the world.

How do we do that? 🧵
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The good folks at @e-l-p.bsky.social are taking applications for their "Ready to Revitalize" training program until Dec 1. It's a great chance to learn more about language revitalization and meet other revitalizers from all around the world.

www.surveyhero.com/c/rtr2026
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November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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The recording of the 2025 Ready to Revitalize showcase is now available on YouTube, spotlighting community language revitalization programs in Canada, Kenya, the US, Indonesia, France, South Africa, Nepal, Ukraine, Cameroon, Mexico, and Aotearoa: youtu.be/Yb6zKkeMQCA?...
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The recording of the Sept. 19 launch event is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/TcTTXKBIhA0
October 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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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.
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Ready to Revitalize: 2025 Project Showcase | Endangered Languages Project
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October 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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‪And if youʻd like a (much) deeper dive, hereʻs a conversation with Dr. Larry Kimura and Haʻalilio Solomon (at the University of Hawaiʻi, who I have recently been working with), sponsored by
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Dr. Larry Kimura: A History of the Hawaiian Language Revitalization Movement | Endangered Languages Project
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October 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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In honor of Indigenous People's Day, here's a very brief timeline of the revitalization of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.
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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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There are many highs and lows in linguistic research: from tones going up and down to emotional highs and lows like a wedding and a war

In this episode we get enthusiastic about fieldwork in Babanki with Dr. Pius Akumbu
108: Highs and lows of tone in Babanki - Interview with Pius Akumbu
Linguistic research has its highs and lows: from staging a traditional wedding to learn about ceremonial words to having your efforts to found a village school disrupted by civil war. Linguistic resea
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September 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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For the seventh and final share-a-thon challenge, we’re inviting you to share something from the new ELP site on social media, and tag #ELPLaunch!
Colorful flyer with text: “CHALLENGE 7: SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORKS September 17 For the seventh and final Share-a-thon challenge, we're inviting everyone to share something from the ELP website on your social media pages. Whether it's the page for your language, a revitalization program, a resource, a story, or another link from the ELP site - just add #ELPLaunch to the post to be entered to win! We'll randomly select one person who tags #ELPLaunch in the next 24 hours to win an ELP t-shirt!”
September 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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For the fifth share-a-thon challenge, we’re inviting you to share about your language revitalization programs! endangeredlanguages.com/add-revitali...
Teal and beige flyer with text: “CHALLENGE 5: CONTRIBUTE A REVITALIZATION PROGRAM September 15 For the fifth Share-a-thon challenge, we're inviting everyone to contribute a revitalization program to our directory. This is as simple as submitting information about a program you're involved with! endangeredlanguages.com/add-revitalization-program We'll randomly select one person who submits a new program in the next 24 hours to win!”
September 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The fourth share-a-thon challenge: add a language-related event happening anywhere in the world (or online)! endangeredlanguages.com/add-event
Maroon and green flyer with text: “CHALLENGE 4: CONTRIBUTE AN EVENT September 14 For the fourth Share-a-thon challenge, we're inviting everyone to contribute a language-related event to our calendar. This is as quick as submitting information through the online form below. endangeredlanguages.com/add-event We'll randomly select one person who submits a new event in the next 24 hours to win!”
September 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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For the third Share-a-thon challenge, we’re inviting you to contribute information about a language! endangeredlanguages.com/submit-langu...
Colorful blue and orange flyer with text: “Challenge 3: contribute language info, September 13. For the third Share-a-thon challenge, we're inviting everyone to contribute language information. This is as easy as submitting a new source of information about an endangered language. endangeredlanguages.com/submit-language-information We'll randomly select one person who submits a new source in the next 24 hours to win!” At the top is a screenshot of ELP’s language map, and at the bottom is a picture of a green ELP t-shirt.
September 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Today’s Share-a-thon challenge: contribute a resource to the collaborative resource library! endangeredlanguages.com/share-resource
Colorful yellow and maroon flyer with text: “For the second Share-a-thon challenge, we're inviting everyone to contribute a resource to our collaborative library. This is as simple as submitting a link to a video, website, document or any other resources related to language revitalization or Indigenous and endangered languages. Share a resource at: endangeredlanguages.com/share-resource We'll randomly select one person who submits a new resource in the next 24 hours to win an ELP t-shirt!”
September 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The United Nations General Assembly declared 2022-32 the International Decade of Indigenous Languages and invited Indigenous peoples to initiate ideas. 💫

Here are 10 goals 📝 proposed by FPCC: fpcc.ca/stories/the-decade-of-indigenous-languages

#IDIL #DecadeofIndigenousLanguages
September 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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For the first Share-a-thon challenge, we’re inviting everyone to create a profile on the new ELP site! endangeredlanguages.com/user/register
Colorful flyer with text: “Challenge 1: Create a profile, September 11. For the first Share-a-thon challenge, we're inviting everyone to make an account on the new ELP site! It's as simple as going to: endangeredlanguages.com/user/register We'll randomly select one new account made in the next 24 hours to win!” At bottom is an image of a green ELP t-shirt.
September 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Join us for a week of celebration at ELP! 🎉

From Sept. 11-18, we're hosting a share-a-thon. Each day, we'll post a challenge for ways you can get involved and contribute - and you could win an ELP t-shirt!

On Sept. 19, join us for an online launch celebration! Register at bit.ly/ELP-launch
Colorful flyer with text: "Participate in the share-a-thon! We invite everyone to get involved with the new ELP platform. For the next 7 days leading up to our launch event, we’re posting daily challenges for you to engage with the new website. Win an ELP t-shirt - one raffle winner daily!" At the top is a screenshot of the revitalization map from the new ELP website. At the bottom is an image of a green ELP t-shirt with an abstract design of two people, filled with leaves and flowers, speaking in front of trees and mountains. Colorful flyer with text: "Join us to celebrate - free online launch event! Join the Endangered Languages Project (ELP) as we celebrate the launch of our new website: a global space to connect, learn, collaborate, and share around language revitalization. Register here: http://bit.ly/ELP-launch" At the top is a screenshot of the homepage map from the new ELP website. At the bottom is an illustration of a wolf, a laptop, and a leaf.
September 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Announcing the new ELP! 🎉⁠ A redesigned online space to:

🌱 Strengthen language revitalization worldwide⁠
🗣️ Share knowledge and stories⁠
💡 Find learning resources, guidance, and ideas for your language work⁠
🌏️ Connect across borders and boundaries⁠
💬 All in 9 languages!⁠

endangeredlanguages.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🌱 Something exciting is coming...

If you were at the WAVES conference, you already got a sneak peek.

Keep your eyes on endangeredlanguages.com, starting September 9. 👀
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August 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Are you looking for a language revitalization mentor? Our friends at ELP offer a FREE program that connects you with an expert that has knowledge and experience revitalizing their own language.

📅 Schedule a meeting with a mentor experienced language revitalizer at: endangeredlanguages.com/mentors
e-l-p.bsky.social Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · May 9
Did you know that ELP offers a FREE Language Revitalization Mentors program?

Anyone who’s working to revitalize their language, wanting to get started, or curious about language revitalization, can talk one-on-one with experienced language revitalizers and scholars.

endangeredlanguages.com/mentors
Green flyer with text: How can ELP's Language Revitalization Mentors support you? Guidance and advice from experienced language revitalizers Connections to people and programs around the world Help finding useful resources Encouragement from people who understand the work Empathetic listeners to talk through your challenges
August 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Job alert at UC Berkeley!
pbaquedano-lopez.bsky.social Patricia Baquedano-López @pbaquedano-lopez.bsky.social · Aug 20
Please help circulate widely!
Assistant Professor (T-T) UC Berkeley, Language Revitalization. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
Seeking candidates with research specialization in language revitalization and a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and related fields @soclinganth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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August 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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What is it like to reclaim your language from a centuries-old book?

In the sixth installment of “A Stream of Voices”, Antônio Jorge Madeira Batista Silva explores his lifelong relationship with a dictionary of his language, Krenak, written in 1909.

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Text: "Every morning, I would pour myself a cup of coffee and sit by the balcony, letting Tepó (the sun) shine on the pages that flipped through my fingers. I would land my right index at a word and, for the rest of the day, try to use it as many times as I could. I learned to treat the little yellow book as a relative, forming a bond of kin with the text, my ancestors, and Bruno." Next to the text is a black and white photo of a Krenak woman with three children, including the author’s grandmother.
August 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Please watch this video from Sudanese linguist Esraa Alrasheed, in which she relates her experience of war & displacement, and describes the profound psychological impacts they have, and how this impacts language maintenance and revitalization. Via @e-l-p.bsky.social
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Voice of an Eagle
YouTube video by Endangered Languages Project
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August 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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In 2024, our friends at #ELP hosted a digital storytelling workshop called “We Are Our Languages.”

10 language champions from 9 countries created powerful short films about reclaiming, documenting and revitalizing their languages.

Baobao Chimi shares the story of his community in Eastern Tibet.
e-l-p.bsky.social Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · Apr 2
"Someone may one day look back and find strength in the fragments we leave behind."

In this powerful video, Baobao Chimi (Minyag, Eastern Tibet) shares the story of his struggles to keep his language alive amidst the crises and pressures changing his village, and where hope can still be found.
From Sheep to Words: The Vanishing Voice of Minyag
YouTube video by Endangered Languages Project
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July 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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"I often imagined my mother and father mending the wounds of their own hearts with the thread of our language."

In this moving story, Mandeep Dhillon reflects on the choice to raise her son in Punjabi and Mè'phàà, and how language carries memory, meaning, and family across distance and time.
Thread of Five Waters
YouTube video by Endangered Languages Project
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July 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🌍 Call for Stories — Langscape Vol. 15

Theme: “Unity in Biocultural Diversity: A Different World is Possible”

We’re seeking creative contributions that explore how unity in diversity can shape a better future. Written, visual, or auditory — your story matters.

🔗 bit.ly/CfSLS15
July 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Recurso recientemente traducido: "Campamentos Culturales para el Aprendiza de Lenguas Indígenas: Manual de Inmersión Lingüística y Cultural" de @fpcc.ca !

Incluye ejemplos, historias e imágenes de comunidades indígenas de Latinoamérica.

Descarga el manual en: bit.ly/ELP-Campamen...
Green and white flyer with a cute illustration of a boy in Quechua clothes sitting in the grass looking at a document. Text reads "Recurso recientemente traducido/Newly translated resource: Campamentos Culturales para el Aprendiza de Lenguas Indígenas: Manual de Inmersión Lingüística y Cultural/Culture Camps for Language Learning: An Immersion Handbook". Below are the logos of the First Peoples' Cultural Council and Endangered Languages Project.
July 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM