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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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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 8h

“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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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 1d

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

www.bbc.com

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Lisa Davidson @lisabdavidson.bsky.social · 2d

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.

hilo.hawaii.edu

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Koahnic Broadcast Corporation #Indigenous #Native Voices @koahnic.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

“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

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 5d

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"

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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 19d

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.”

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 14d

“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

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 19d

“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

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Andrew Garrett @andrewgarrett.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · Aug 18

wild fucking name, would love to see an indigenous linguist get this (grant for grad research)

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Aug 18

FYI: Lewis and Clark Fund for Native American Research

The Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archaeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields. Grants will be available to doctoral students. Postdoc

dlvr.it

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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CNRS Ile-de-France Villejuif @cnrs-idf-villejuif.bsky.social · Jul 24

📻 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

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · Jul 5

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.

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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

www.bbc.co.uk

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · Jun 20

Oh, lovely. You should get in touch with Frank Seifart who leads the project for the French side

Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our database of the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is now available online!

#linguistics

abla.cnrs.fr/features/ abla.cnrs.fr/features/

ABLA

abla.cnrs.fr

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · May 29

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

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · May 29

“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

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · May 27

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

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks so much! I will check them out

Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · May 23

Does anyone know of studies about priming with non-default (marked) word order?

#linguistics

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