Evangelia Adamou 🦋
@evangelia.bsky.social
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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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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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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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“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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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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kilinguistics.bsky.social
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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jogil.bsky.social
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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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
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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.
evangelia.bsky.social
Oh, lovely. You should get in touch with Frank Seifart who leads the project for the French side
evangelia.bsky.social
Our database of the Atlas of the Balkan Linguistic Area is now available online!

#linguistics

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ABLA
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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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“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
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
evangelia.bsky.social
Thanks so much! I will check them out
evangelia.bsky.social
Does anyone know of studies about priming with non-default (marked) word order?

#linguistics
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Australie: le gamilaraay, une langue aborigène menacée à l'étonnante vitalité

#linguistics

www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-paci...