How to Resurrect Dying Languages
Community activists are using creative methods to revive endangered languages and reawaken dormant ones.
Anna Luisa Daigneault
Anna Luisa Daigneault is a linguistic anthropologist, a researcher, a writer, and an artist. She holds an M.Sc. in linguistic anthropology from Université de Montréal. She currently resides in the United States and serves as the program director for the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Daigneault has conducted ethnolinguistic fieldwork throughout the Americas and in the Pacific Islands, and has contributed to the publication of more than 30 online Talking Dictionaries for endangered and minority languages around the world. She has been published by The Dominion, Global Voices, and SAPIENS. Follow her on Twitter @anna_daigneault and @livingtongues.
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