Journalists seem to love writing about the revival of the Yiddish language among younger people.

They've been writing articles about this sudden and new Yiddish Revival since around 1968... which seems a long time to treat something as surprising and new (or, for that matter, as a revival). #LanguageRevival

Today is the first day of #Tunica language & culture summer camp, the first in-person camp since 2019. It’s been a while since I taught the language, having spent the last couple of years immersed in analysis of the documentation. I’m looking forward to getting back to engaging with the language in the present!

Also looking forward to seeing how much the kids I remember have grown and inevitably feeling old as a result. 👴

#LanguageRevitalization #LanguageRevival #IndigenousLanguages

If Hebrew could be resurrected, why not Latin? Hasten the day when we’ll overhear people in coffee shops chatting away in this lovely and supremely orderly language!

#Latin #LanguageRevival

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-spoken-latin-is-making-a-comeback-180981621/

"The Takelma language, once spoken by the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians and others, went extinct in Southwestern Oregon by 1940. Now, tribal members are in the process of restoring it."

#Indignous #LanguageRevival

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/25/cow-creek-tribe-southern-oregon-works-to-restore-once-extinct-language/

An Indigenous language in Oregon is being revived after having last been spoken in the 1940s.

#Indignous #LanguageRevival #Takelma #Umpqua #Oregon

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/25/cow-creek-tribe-southern-oregon-works-to-restore-once-extinct-language/