“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
On
the Future of Language with Long Now and Global Lives:
Experts estimate that a language disappears every 14 days. At this rate, 90 percent of the world’s languages will no longer be spoken by the end of this century, and over 7000 languages will have fallen silent and with them vast knowledge and rich cultural heritage will be lost.
Linguistic diversity and biodiversity are closely linked and both are declining at unprecedented rates. Increased awareness of the problem has led to new efforts to document and preserve these languages and cultures. David Evan Harris (Executive Director of Global Lives) and Long Now Foundation's Dr. Laura Welcher (Director of the Rosetta Project) present a special program about Endangered Languages with very special guest Mandana Seyfeddinipur (SOAS, University of London) for this Interval salon talk:
July
22, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm -
Get
your tickets here
On the Future of Language with Long Now and Global Lives
Special guest
Mandana
Seyfeddinipur, one of the foremost experts working to save endangered languages in her role at the
The Hans Rausing
Endangered Languages Project at the SOAS, University of London, joins Long Now's Laura Welcher and Global Lives' David Evan Harris to talk about the
importance of documenting and sustaining these languages and how the Global Lives / Global Voices project hopes to be part of the effort.
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