Happy Holidays, beloved supporters! As we quickly approach our goal of uploading 100 videos from the summer workshop in Timor, I’d like to share one musical segment we recorded with Mama Nona and Pak Paul in the Rikou language (captions forthcoming). More to follow!
As we approach the end of 2012, ELA would like to express our utmost gratitude to our collaborators and supporters without whom our work would not be possible. If you are fortunate enough to be able to make an end of the year contribution, please consider supporting our Garifuna summer program, our Meso-American New York…
ELA on NPR today:
Over the last few months we have been working together with Intercultural Productions to produce Meso-American New York, a 3-part series on indigenous Mexicans in New York and the languages they speak. We have currently finished filming one third (see trailer below) and are raising money for completion. Please consider helping us with a tax-deductible donation for this project…
ELA will be presenting our work with indigenous Mexican communities in New York at… Thanks to the Institute of Mexican Studies for putting on a successful event. Below, Daniel demonstrates just how different Mexican languages are from each other with a basic vocabulary list in Amuzgo, Totonac, Nahuatl and Mixtec.
Endangered Language Fair The Endangered Language Alliance, the Ethnic Services Round Table of the New York Library Association and the New York Public Library join forces to raise awareness about minority languages in danger. Attendees will learn why endangered languages matter and what efforts are being made to preserve them, besides hearing about several languages…
Please come see us at the Endangered Language Fair at the Berger Forum in the New York Public Library on 5th avenue between 42nd and 43rd st. We will be featuring videos, lectures and musical performances from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM. ELA director Daniel Kaufman will be giving the opening talk at 10:30 and…
ELA is happy to announce our participation in a freshly launched initiative focused on endangered languages and backed by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity. The site will offer information on and recordings and other primary data in endangered languages, as well as ideas on how to help maintain these languages. It will also allow experts and laypeople a larger…
Next month, our friends, James Lovell and Eleanor Bullock will be conducting a Garifuna language and culture workshop for children on the ancestral homeland of the Garinagu, St. Vincent. The first workshop, last summer, was very well received and the children of St. Vincent are now eagerly awaiting their return. James, Eleanor and Trish St.…
It has been a hectic few weeks. The revitalization symposium was a success, featuring really great speakers in addition to some very powerful performances by the Māori contingent. ELA was a proud “little sibling” among the other sponsors, CUNY, AUT and the Smithsonian Museum for the American Indian. We are very much looking forward to…
ELA is proud to cohost: Language Revitalization in the 21st Century , May 31 – June 1. If you are unable to register, we hope that you will at least be able to join us for the free Thursday evening + Friday programs at the Museum of American Indian. See you there!
Please join us on Feb. 11, 2012, 6:00 -7:30PM @ the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston, NYC) for an evening of music, dance, poetry, food and drink in support of endangered languages at home and abroad! We will be presenting some of our recent work and updating everyone on what’s to come.