JUST *UNDER 24* HOURS TO GO!

GREAT REWARDS (INCLUDING THE ACTUAL BOOK) STILL AVAILABLE!

Please consider supporting @Endangeredalphabets Kickstarter book on the art of writing and endangered writing systems! It is so close to its goal, and it is such a worthy project.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/endangeredatlas/endangered-alphabets-calligraphy

My previous pinned #introductionpost post is quite old, so here's a new go ...

I teach #linguistics at the #UniversityOfAlberta. Professional interests include #AccessiblePedagogy, #Phonetics, #QuantitativeMethods (#statistics), #SpeechTechnology, #InternetLinguistics, #WritingSystems, and #EnglishSpellingReform

Outside of work, I like #ScottishCountryDancing, #Canoeing, and various nerdy pursuits such as #TTRPGs and #StarTrek.

"A tablet of wood inscribed with the undeciphered #rongorongo script from the Eastern Pacific island #RapaNui [may be example of] one of the few independently invented #writingsystems.

The wood from one of four rongorongo tablets preserved in a collection in Rome dates to between 1493 and 1509 — +200 years before the first recorded arrival of Europeans on the island in the 1720s."

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/undeciphered-script-from-easter-island-may-predate-european-colonization

@Endangeredalphabets

Do you have a publicly available bibliography of material that would enable one to learn #handwriting #copybook in the 350 or so endangered #writingsystemsforindigenouslanguages #endangeredalphabets ?

Most of the languages that utilise those #WritingSystems are also facing #LanguageDeath, and #CultureNegation.