RT @UNBiodiversity
The loss of an indigenous language is a far greater loss than you think.

It means the loss of vital knowledge to fight climate change & protect biodiversity.

Let’s shape the actions that safeguard #indigenousLanguages: http://on.unesco.org/3VsYmXM #WeAreIndigenous

Via @UNESCO

@linguistics @languagelovers

#IndigenousLanguages #MexicanLanguages

Many indigenous #Mexican languages use the so-called “numeral classifiers” - similar to those existing in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese - which convey the form, position or nature of the counted object. The chart below shows some of the (still) used numeral classifiers in #Yucatec #MayaLanguage, although many of them are often replaced by two general markers: “túul” for animate nouns and “p’éel” for inanimate objects.

@linguistics @languagelovers #indigenouslanguages

Fundraising campaign by an indigenous grassroots organization aimed at printing 2000 copies of a Nawat dictionary for free distribution. Nawat is the last, endangered Uto-Aztecan language in El Salvador. 👇

https://givebutter.com/TimumachtikanNawat?s=09

Climate crisis could be ‘final nail in the coffin’ for half of all surviving languages, say linguists, as coastal communities are forced to migrate

#language #indigenouslanguages #climatecrisis #climatechange #mariellapetrignitraduzioni

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/linguists-language-culture-loss-end-of-century-sea-levels-rise?ref=refind

RT @ILDecade: #Indigenous traditional knowledge of the environment represents a key resource for developing innovative solutions to combating hunger, climate change and protecting biodiversity.

Get involved. Let’s protect #Indigenouslanguages
https://en.unesco.org/idil2022-2032

@FAO

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU2Namibia/status/1612751149198712834

@ruedorion Pour les mordu·es de langues, l'ouvrage contient un lien vers un glossaire et un guide de prononciation des mots en mohawk/kanyen'kehà:ka, lu par l'actrice Kaniehtiio Horn
https://ruedorion.ca/mohawk
#language #Indigenous #indigenouslanguages

@Linguistics

Comparison of #numbers between #Yucatec #Maya (Maaya t'aan) and #Huastec (Tének), spoken in North-Eastern Mexico. Huastec is the only Mayan language found outside the core Mayan region (South #Mexico, #YucatanPeninsula, #Guatemala, #Belize & #Honduras). Geographically speaking Huastec is more than 800 kms. away from its closest related #languages.

#idiomamaya #indigenouslanguages #Mexicanlanguages #lenguasoriginarias #huasteco #mayayucateco #maayat'aan

@linguistics

Comparison of #numbers between #Yucatec #Maya (Maaya t'aan) and #Huastec (Tének), spoken in North-Eastern Mexico. Huastec is the only Mayan language found outside the core Mayan region (South #Mexico, #YucatanPeninsula, #Guatemala, #Belize & #Honduras). Geographically speaking Huastec is more than 800 kms. away from its closest related #languages.

#idiomamaya #indigenouslanguages #Mexicanlanguages #lenguasoriginarias #huasteco #mayayucateco #linguistics

Want to know more about untranslatable words in #IndigenousLanguages and ongoing initiatives for preserving them?

You can read about this on the #SCICkci

@ILDecade

#IDIL

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUInterpreters/status/1525853515909824514