Resources

This section contains resources that can be used in preparation for the event. Feel free to use them as well as to research on your own!

If you know of other resources, please let us know so we can add them to our list.

Video and Audio Materials

1. Online Indigenous Film Festival (Multilingual Play list)

2. Video/ audio: Rare audio of indigenous languages saved a century later

3. Indigenous Australian languages are dying; sleeping languages; new language is arising; wellbeing and identity - article with good videos

4. Dimas speaking Osing

5. Chingis speaking Tatar

6. A Catalog of Every Language in the World

7. Global News Canada: Indigenous Languages: articles and videos:

8. Indigenous Languages: Websites and videos

9. Stream 80 Indigenous Films from Latin America & the Caribbean for Free on YouTube:

10. Tongva, the first Los Angeles' Language

11. To Wake Up the Nakota Language

12. Ke Kula ʻo ʻEhunuikaimalino

13. All my Relations Podcast

14. 2019 International Conference on Indigenous Languages

15. Seven Poems by Felipe H. Lopez ( audio in Zapotec)

16. Liaza chaa / I'm going home by Felipe H. Lopez (audio in Zapotec)

17. Zapotec series (12 episodes)

18. Native American Languages and Technology

19. PEN Zambia: running indigenous language workshops in schools

20. Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian.

Articles for Students and Instructors

1. Articles on Indigenous Languages

(good for students’ presentations)

2. Articles on Aboriginal Languages

3. Endangered languages in Russia

4. The 8 Most Critically Endangered Languages in Russia

5. Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous Languages of Russia And Beyond

6. Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research

7. Indigenous Languages Articles & Chapters

8. Global News Canada: Indigenous Languages: articles and videos:

9. Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian languages

10. In Japan’s Okinawa, saving indigenous languages is about more than words

11. On Saving China’s Dying Languages

12. Society for Linguistic Anthropology

13. The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before

14. Saving vanishing words: Why Queens is the ‘Noah’s Ark of languages’

15. ‘Flow’ Carries Indigenous Voices to World

16. The quiet loss of knowledge threatens indigenous communities

17. The Fight to Save Indonesia’s Threatened Indigenous Languages

18. Games designers collaborate to preserve culture and language of the Yugambeh people

19. Tweeting in Zapotec: Social Media as a Tool for Language Activists

20. Why write in a language that (almost) no one can read? Twitter and the development of written literature

21. Nine ways to support the rights of indigenous people

Articles and Blogs for Instructors

1. First Nations take to designing their own apps to preserve their languages and cultures

2. NAIDOC Week: Indigenous languages aren't dead, just sleeping — and this is why they matter

3. Warum man unbedingt Jiddisch lernen sollte

4. How to Resurrect a Lost Language

5. National Breath of Life to launch one-of-a-kind software to enable linguistic analysis for language revitalization

6. Tracking the spread of early hunter-gatherers through language

7. THE SWISS LANGUAGE THAT FEW KNOW

8. "Nei, dasch zvüu, tu me connais!"

9. Rare audio of indigenous languages saved a century later

10. See One Woman's Amazing Project to Save a Vanishing Native American Language

11. One Canberra man's mission to keep his native Benin language alive

12. Call me by my name: Peru promotes use of indigenous names in public records

13. Hawaiian Language Revival Used as Model for Other Indigenous Languages

14. The race to save a dying language

15. Rare audio of indigenous languages saved a century later

16. Dreams from Endangered Cultures

17. The Alphabet That Will Save a People From Disappearing

18. In New Zealand, a Translated ‘Moana’ Bolsters an Indigenous Language

19. How the Internet Changed the Meaning of ‘Mamihlapinatapai’

20. These are the linguistic superheroes saving entire languages

21. Challenging language:' Edmonton academic studies versions of 1st Inuit novel

22. Femmes autochtones : entre émancipation et réparation

23. The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages

24. 318 Words for Snow: How to Preserve the Indigenous Languages of the Arctic

25. In Syria's Maalula, fear for survival of language of Christ

26. Etched in bone: On the repatriation of indigenous languages

27. Rebuilding the Tutelo-Saponi language for tribe's next generation

28. UBC PhD candidate explores how social media can revive Indigenous languages

29. The Language the French Forbade

30. The Quest is on to save a dying Zoroastrian Language

31. Two Sanskrit-Speaking Villages To Be Set Up Near Central Institutes Dedicated To The Language: HRD Minister

32. Mayan language could disappear in 30 years, researcher warns

33. The world's Indigenous speakers gather in Victoria to revitalize languages

34. Saving a dying language: stories of some hopeful rescuers

35. Meet the Man Saving His Language From Extinction

36. North America’s nearly forgotten language

37. Indigenous Peoples Are Decolonizing Virtual Worlds

38. Stiamo scomparendo - Viaggio nell'Italia della minoranza

39. Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand

40. The lost language of the Canary Islands

41. Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research

42. Al is Coming Closer to Deciphering Lost Languages

43. Peruvian Court Rules in Language of the Incas

44. U of A researchers land three prestigious $2.5-million social sciences and humanities research grants

45. Learning to Write My Native Language: The Newari Ranjana Script of Nepal

46. Turkish researcher publishes dictionary of endangered Greek language used in Trabzon

47. The restoration of an 18th century manuscript of liturgical choir songs written in the Abenaki language will be an important resource for language revitalization efforts for Odanak, Que., according to those working to save the endangered language.

Websites

1. International Year of Indigenous Languages
2. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
3. The Center for World Indigenous Studies
4. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
5. Whose Knowledge?: A global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities
6. Minority Rights Group International
7. Survival International
8. Cultural Survival
9. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
10. The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
11. First Languages Australia
12. Giellagas Institute for Saami Studies
13. The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)
14. Native Languages of the Americas
15. Forest Peoples Programme
16. Mokuola Honua,: Global Center for Indigenous Language Excellence
17. Wikitongues
18. The O Foundation (OFDN)
19. 2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages
20. Rising Voices
21. Linguistic Society of America
22. Dizhsa Nabani – Lengua Viva – Living Language
23. Tlacochahuaya Zapotec - online talking dictionary (2019 version)
24. Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec online talking dictionary (2017 version)
25. San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec online talking dictionary (2019 version)
26. San Bartolomé Quialana Zapotec online talking dictionary (2016 version)
27. TICHA A DIGITAL TEXT EXPLORER FOR COLONIAL ZAPOTEC
28. COLONIAL VALLEY ZAPOTEC TO ENGLISH VOCABULARY

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