ELA’s network — linguists, community leaders, language activists, speakers, students, and ordinary New Yorkers — has been working all year to bring resources and attention to the languages and cultures that need them. Here are just a few of the highlights: In January, we continued our tradition of hosting language classes in less commonly taught languages, with Lenape and Quechua classes…
On December 3, #GivingTuesday, Facebook may match any donations we get on their platform. Those donations go right into our work documenting and support endangered languages in New York and around the world — and doubling them really matters. Please donate and spread the word. To say thanks, we’re sending donors our beautiful new language maps. Anyone who gives…
ELA Co-Directors Ross Perlin and Daniel Kaufman spoke last week on “Language Access, Health, and Indigenous Communities in New York City” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancel Center’s Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service. It was a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between linguist work and public health, specifically addressing NYC’s substantial and growing Indigenous…
Donate $50 to ELA in support of ELA’s work with speakers of languages in New York and around the world — and we’ll mail you our brand-new, full-scale (24 x 36), all-color language map of New York City, featuring 637 languages at 983 different sites, is ready! If you donate $65, we’ll add in EITHER…
We’re excited to announce two upcoming Himalayan-themed events in NYC. On the evening of Thursday October 24, a rare screening of Trembling Mountain, a film about the Nepal earthquake of 2015, including Q&A with the filmmaker, ELA’s friend Kesang Tseten, at the Maysles Theater in Harlem. Suggested donation. The next day Friday October 25 at Columbia, join us…
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 @ 7 PM (Soho, NYC) HOW TO REVIVE A FADING LANGUAGE Join ELA and the great public radio station WNYC, with Micropolis host Arun Venugopal, for a night of performances, audience participation and plenty of hearty conversation — previewed here. You’ll learn phrases and hear music and stories in languages that New Yorkers are keeping alive and well in…
Join us on Memorial Day (May 27, doors open at 1 pm) for this free community event celebrating the songs and singers of the Himalayan diaspora in New York, open to everyone! If you’re on Facebook, let us know if you’re coming here. Email info@elalliance.org for more info.
Our full-scale (24 x 36), all-color language map of New York City, featuring 631 languages at 970 different sites, is ready! We’re now offering the First Edition of this unique map to anyone who donates $50 in support of ELA’s work with speakers of languages in New York and around the world. (If you’ve already…
Save the date: on Sunday February 24, from 2 pm, join ELA at University Settlement on Manhattan’s Lower East Side for a no-holds-barred language marathon, featuring speakers of languages from around the world! Donations are appreciated, but everyone is welcome. We’ll also have a special sale going, with ELA’s Queens language maps and unique t-shirts both going for…
Celebrate International Mother Language Day, the Year of Indigenous Languages, and Black History Month by going to hear our long-time collaborator and friend James Lovell —with a team of percussionists and dancers — discuss and perform Garifuna music at the National Museum of the American Indian in downtown NYC. More details below: Native Sounds Downtown! Garifuna…