LINGUIST List 21.4845 Thu Dec 02 2010 FYI: Endangered Alphabets Project Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Tim Brookes , Endangered Alphabets Project Message 1: Endangered Alphabets Project Date: 02-Dec-2010 From: Tim Brookes <brookeschamplain.edu> Subject: Endangered Alphabets Project E-mail this message to a friend The Endangered Alphabets Project consists of an exhibition of alphabet carvings and a recently published book. The project is the first-ever attempt to address the issue of alphabet endangerment. Writing has become so dominated by a small number of global cultures that the estimated 6,000 world languages are written in fewer than 100 alphabets. Moreover, fully a third are endangered. On a global scale, writing is already dominated by as few as five major alphabets: Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese and Japanese. For more information on the Endangered Alphabets Project, please visit: http://www.endangeredalphabets.com Additionally, work on a similar carving project has begun. The project will result in endangered scripts being combined with an endangered languages poetry project. These carvings will then be displayed throughout the U.S. and in other countries. Translators will be needed to assist with the following languages: Redjang, Bamum, Balinese, Manchu, Nushu, Ranjana/Lantsa, N'Ko, Buhid, Tai Dam, Javanese, and Maldivian/Thaana. For more information about this work-in-progress, please contact Tim Brookes at brookeschamplain.edu. Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Translation; Writing Systems Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.