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Words of Type<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://typo.social/@typojo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>typojo</span></a></span> lecture about the impacts of preserving endangered writing systems of South East Asia is coming soon!<br>Don’t forget to get your ticket to attend live or get the recording!</p><p>This lecture is part of the Knuth-Bigelow Incubator program developed with Stanford's SILICON and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://typo.social/@letterformarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>letterformarchive</span></a></span> and it has been made open for everyone who wants to join!</p><p>Tickets: <a href="https://wordsoftype.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wordsoftype.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://typo.social/tags/ad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ad</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/lecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lecture</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/southeastasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>southeastasia</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/scripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scripts</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/writingsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingsystems</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>typography</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/type" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>type</span></a></p>
Anne Deschaine<p>WOW!!! Only $155 to go in the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Endangeredalphabets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Endangeredalphabets</span></a></span> Kickstarter!!</p><p>Will you be backer number 200? Maybe you'll be the backer who pushes it over the goal!</p><p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/endangeredatlas/endangered-alphabets-calligraphy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kickstarter.com/projects/endan</span><span class="invisible">geredatlas/endangered-alphabets-calligraphy</span></a></p><p>EDIT ABOUT TWO MINUTES LATER: Number 200 did it!! Thanks to whoever you are, because now I get to read this book! 😂 </p><p>THERE'S STILL TIME TO GET IN ON IT, THOUGH! CLICK THE LINK!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/calligraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calligraphy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/handwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handwriting</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/indigenousLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenousLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/languagePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languagePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/writingSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingSystems</span></a></p>
Anne Deschaine<p>JUST *UNDER 24* HOURS TO GO!</p><p>GREAT REWARDS (INCLUDING THE ACTUAL BOOK) STILL AVAILABLE!</p><p>Please consider supporting <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Endangeredalphabets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Endangeredalphabets</span></a></span> 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.</p><p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/endangeredatlas/endangered-alphabets-calligraphy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kickstarter.com/projects/endan</span><span class="invisible">geredatlas/endangered-alphabets-calligraphy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/calligraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calligraphy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/handwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handwriting</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/indigenousLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenousLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/minorityLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minorityLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/writingSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingSystems</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/languagePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languagePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fountainPens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fountainPens</span></a></p>
Tim Mills<p>My previous pinned <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/introductionpost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introductionpost</span></a> post is quite old, so here's a new go ...</p><p>I teach <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> at the <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/UniversityOfAlberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfAlberta</span></a>. Professional interests include <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/AccessiblePedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AccessiblePedagogy</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phonetics</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/QuantitativeMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantitativeMethods</span></a> (<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a>), <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/SpeechTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpeechTechnology</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/InternetLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetLinguistics</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/WritingSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingSystems</span></a>, and <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/EnglishSpellingReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishSpellingReform</span></a> </p><p>Outside of work, I like <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/ScottishCountryDancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishCountryDancing</span></a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Canoeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canoeing</span></a>, and various nerdy pursuits such as <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/TTRPGs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPGs</span></a> and <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a>. 🤓</p>
Xamanismo Coletivo<p>"A tablet of wood inscribed with the undeciphered <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/rongorongo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rongorongo</span></a> script from the Eastern Pacific island <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RapaNui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RapaNui</span></a> [may be example of] one of the few independently invented <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/writingsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingsystems</span></a>.</p><p>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."</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/undeciphered-script-from-easter-island-may-predate-european-colonization" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/archaeology/un</span><span class="invisible">deciphered-script-from-easter-island-may-predate-european-colonization</span></a></p>
pugo<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Endangeredalphabets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Endangeredalphabets</span></a></span> </p><p>Do you have a publicly available bibliography of material that would enable one to learn <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/handwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handwriting</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/copybook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copybook</span></a> in the 350 or so endangered <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/writingsystemsforindigenouslanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingsystemsforindigenouslanguages</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/endangeredalphabets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endangeredalphabets</span></a> ?</p><p>Most of the languages that utilise those <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/WritingSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingSystems</span></a> are also facing <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/LanguageDeath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageDeath</span></a>, and <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/CultureNegation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CultureNegation</span></a>.</p>
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