Language Revitalization Puns

I’m very passionate about the protection of endangered and minority languages, and tbh languages and linguistics in general. I’ve never been much of the volunteering type, but I feel like this type of thing is something I’d like to give my time to. I’m not quite sure how to go about finding opportunities or if there’s much even out there. Also, given that I don’t speak any small/endangered languages or have any professional linguistics experience, I’m not sure how I could be helpful.

Let me explain my background: I am a 24 year old native English speaker who is semi-proficient in Esperanto (somewhere between B1 and B2 I think). I also took 4 years of Spanish in high school plus a semester in college, but I’ve forgotten a lot of it. I am a cybersecurity major, though since I recently switched to cybersecurity from physics I haven’t taken core classes yet so I don’t think I have any useful related skills, aside from some limited knowledge of Python, self taught as a teenager.

I consider myself fairly tech savvy and a good communicator.

I live in Southern California in Ventura County, near the border with Los Angeles County.

I’d be willing to do pretty much any kind of tasks that I could be useful for, as long as it’s for an organization whose mission I care about. I’m mainly looking for something involving language revitalization, but I’m open to suggestions for similar causes, anything linguistics related really.

So basically what I’m asking is, do you have any suggestions for organizations I could volunteer for, ways of going about finding opportunities, alternative causes that you think I might be interested in, or any info or insights you think might be of use to me?

Thanks!

is there a way to easily hypertext words that allow you to link to a wiki-wide search of that term? something like [[search:word]]? Even if it's fairly complicated it's still something I really need to do

Why is the Welsh language revitalization successful while the Irish language is struggling with their revitalization?

As the title says, I'm looking for some good resources/spaces where this is the overarching subject matter. Appreciate in advance anything people have to offer :)

Hello everyone!

I am a volunteer working with the Jewish Languages Documentation and Revitalization Project at Wikitongues. We are working to collect eight hours of oral histories in every Jewish diaspora language (see list below). If you are interested (or know someone who is), please let me know or email us at hello@wikitongues.org. Thank you!

Jewish Languages:

Yiddish (Standardized, Eastern, Western, Palestinian)
Israeli Sign Language
Judeo-Arabic (Iraqi, Moroccan, Tripolitanian/Libyan, Tunisian, Yemeni, Aleppine/Syrian, Egyptian)
Judeo-Aramaic
Yevanic (Judeo-Greek)
Judeo-Persian
Bukhari (Judeo-Tajik)
Juhuri (Judeo-Tat)
Judeo-Shirazi
Judeo-Median/Judeo-Hamedani
Lotera'i
Judezmo (Ladino)
Haketía (Ladino)
Judeo-Italian (Roman, Venetian, Livornese, Emilia-Romagnan, Piedmontese, Florentine, Corfiot)
Judeo-Malayalam
Karaim
Krymchak
Judeo-Berber
Ghardaia Sign Language (Jewish Algerian Sign Language)
Qwara (Judeo-Qimant)
Kayla (Judeo-Qimant)
Judeo-Amharic
Judeo-Georgian
Jewish Latin American Spanish
Jewish Swedish
Jewish English
Jewish Hungarian
Jewish Russian
Judeo-Portuguese
Judeo-Occitan

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As Mayan glyphs are Mesoamerica's most fully fleshed out writing system, do they have the potential to be revitalized for writing today's major Mayan languages? Due to the graphical intricacy of Mayan glyphs which would be unsuitable for daily use, how could graphically simplified, more practical glyphs conceivably be developed? Could they possibly be used to write Nāhuatl or Spanish with minor alterations to which sounds each glyph represents? Has writing system revitalization in a similar fashion to this proposal occurred before?

I'm interested in contributing to some sort of language documentation or revitalization effort. I only have a batchelor's in linguistics, and don't have particular ties to any endangered language communities, but I'd be really excited to do some volunteer work for an organization or even a small group of folks working on documenting/revitalizing an endangered language. It could be substantive or organizational/administrative work; I'd just like to be involved somehow. Are there any organizations or groups that I should look into or get in contact with?

Was told this sub might be a good place for this post too!

I just finished taking my first class in my Indigenous language, nselxcin, an Interior Salish language of Canada/Washington State.

The class was largely about how to learn the language and how to create materials for the language. I want to dive deeper into this now.

Our language does have a couple dictionaries, a half finished website of native speakers pronouncing words, some learning songs, some language games. It's all spread out pretty thin and not cohesive.

I'm a multimedia artist with a brother who can build websites/apps so I feel like there's a lot we can do.

I also want this to spark discussion for general advice learning an Indigenous language and helping to revitalize it.

Are there any folks here involved in the language revitalization efforts in their communities?

This COVID crisis has made it abundantly clear how absolutely necessary this is, with speakers passing every week and knowledge irrevocably lost. I've started organizing Zoom lessons for fluent speakers in my own community to teach, and it's gained a lot of traction so far. While the three Cherokee tribes do have language programs and immersion schools and the people involved are amazing folks, it's simply not enough, and I think community effort is required for true revitalization.

What is your tribe doing for your language, how effective has it been, and how can you help?

The Government has been trying to keep the language alive be releasing more literature and keep English loan words from coming into the language. One way I think we can bring attention to this fascinating language is to bring it to a platform of which many use and know about Duolingo. The approval rate for a language to be recognized by the devs is around 800 votes. It has almost 500 upvotes and has people willing to contribute to it. If we can get It to 800 the devs will acknowledge It.

Edit: Forgot to post the Link to duolingo post where you need to upvote

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3442715