I'm thrilled that ELP's first new language technology initiative is in collaboration with the Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media (@stanfordsilicon.bsky.social). More on this coming soon...! #langsky #langtech 💻 💬

We’re honored and excited to welcome @bchasemadethis.bsky.social as ELP’s new Director of Technology! They bring a decade of experience supporting Indigenous communities in developing ethical, effective technologies to meet their language goals. Welcome, Bridge!

I'm honoured to share that I am the new Director of Technology for the Endangered Languages Project (@e-l-p.bsky.social). With a network of over 22,000 language champions from 87+ countries & a line-up of free world-class programming, ELP has a proven track record of language revitalization success.

Hi folks, happy 2026! 🎉 Just a brief announcement to say that after a long period of consideration, I’ve decided to formally change my first name to “Bridge” — a hopefully simple change for everyone to remember! I appreciate everyone’s support in making the shift. Thanks very much!

This season, I am fundraising for a program called Ready to Revitalize: a unique course run through @e-l-p.bsky.social for grassroots #language champions around the world. It only costs $500 to sponsor a participant. Help us support language revitalization! #langsky givebutter.com/elp2025/chas...

The Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator invites students—especially from Digitally Disadvantaged Language communities—to explore typography in a supportive online program. Successful Applicants receive 100% Scholarship coverage! Learn more: kbitype.org @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social

It's happening! Join @e-l-p.bsky.social for the #ELPLaunch right now! bit.ly/ELP-launch #langsky #language #events

Join us for a week of celebration at ELP! 🎉 From Sept. 11-18, we're hosting a share-a-thon. Each day, we'll post a challenge for ways you can get involved and contribute - and you could win an ELP t-shirt! On Sept. 19, join us for an online launch celebration! Register at bit.ly/ELP-launch

Beyond excited to announce that I will be teaching two courses this fall, one with the University of British Columbia & one with the University of Victoria More info on these programs can be found here: 📍UBC FNEL: cis.arts.ubc.ca 📍UVic ILD: tinyurl.com/LING183B @arts.ubc.ca @uvic.ca #langsky

I’ll be attending as many talks and presentations as I can at #WAVES2025 over the next couple of days, and I’ll use this thread 🧵 to share some of the insights from the great speakers and knowledge keepers here. Today, the theme is #Langauge & #Technology! 💻💬 #langsky

Thrilled to be at WAVES 2025, the Global Indigenous Languages Summit by @ocil-ila.bsky.social to share the work of the Indigenous North American Type project @typotheque.com Come visit our booth — the exhibit hall floor 3 & come to our collab session at 2 PM today in room 206! #WAVES2025 #langsky

#ATypI invites proposals for its two 2026 conferences: Homescreen references the unfinished journey of creating a truly global digital age ... as homescreens feel like “home” for a remarkably small number of language communities tinyurl.com/AtypI-call

"Ensuring #linguistic equality within #technology is one piece of a much larger puzzle to advance the bigger goals of #language vitality ... and #Unicode plays a massive role in that work" multilingual-news.castos.com/episodes/uni... Honoured to speak on "Localization Today" by MultiLingual Media:

"Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies ... and determined 78% of them connected #Indigenous #language vitality with improved health. ... Language revitalization plays into identity and feelings of belonging and connection." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #langsky

Delighted to guest lecture this afternoon in @uvic.ca's IED 199: Special Studies in Indigenous Education: Technology for SENĆOŦEN Learning. I shared my experiences and advice around working in #language #technology, and it was so fun to speak in a course taught by my dear friend+colleague Ben Chung.

i have been hesitant to participate in the “AI for Good” Summit, that takes place in Geneva annually. but this year, i have been given a keynote (not a panel or similar participation) so, i said yes. here’s the first draft of my talk

Thrilled to be presenting this morning with my fantastic colleague Leo Vicenti at Multilingüe 2025, an event about the revitalization of the Indigenous languages ​​of the Americas through #typography, #research, and #technology. #multilingue2025 #langsky

The Endangered Languages Project (@e-l-p.bsky.social), in partnership with the First People's Cultural Council, recently released a guide for journalists who are writing about Indigenous and minority languages. It's great. Let me show you. fpcc.ca/resource/say...

Do you know someone who writes about #Indigenous, #minoritized and/or #endangered languages and #languagerevitalization? This new publication might be useful! ⤵️

Thrilled to launch a #journalism resource written by myself, @nabelew.bsky.social & Amanda Holmes: tinyurl.com/languagejour... We appreciate the growing attention the #media is giving to #language endangerment & revitalization, but issues are often covered in ways cause unintentional harm. How? 🗞️

This *NEW* Sharing Language Diversity Fellowship supports PhD students who are engaged in the documentation of Indigenous languages and the archiving of linguistic data as part of their PhD graduate studies.

We have a new font release. Hard-to-categorise, designed to bring an informal, warm personality to both Thai and Latin scripts. www.typotheque.com/blog/pristine

I don’t usually share non-language-related news stories on here, but I can’t help myself with this one. There was LITERALLY an entire episode of Parks and Rec about this!

On March 28, come learn from and support ELP's 2024-25 interns as they share about their languages, communities, and their work at ELP! Elwin Huaman (Quechua), Maison Ole Nkurrunah (Maasai) and Riathung Kyong (Kyong/Naga) will be sharing about all they've done this year: bit.ly/ELPinterns2025

I enjoyed presenting to technology stakeholders today at #ICANN82: "Business Experiences in Updating Systems for the Evolving TLD Landscape" Ensuring accurate & predictable access to digital spaces for all languages, across all devices, is a cornerstone of language justice. #langsky @typotheque.com

Excited to be presenting about digital access for Indigenous languages at #ICANN82 on behalf of @typotheque.com, supporting a #multilingual internet. ICANN “recognizes the need for a Universal Acceptance ready world, where all valid names work regardless of language, length and script.” #langsky

A great piece on computer-assisted #language learning courses: "Decisions around #orthography, dialectal variation, and terminology in designing an #Indigenous language course, particularly one that is delivered online ... must be treated with a great deal of care" tinyurl.com/2urkafrf #langsky 💻💬

On Nov. 7th, I told my sociolinguistics students this was going to happen. They did an activity on language policy and one of the lessons was that repressive regimes always try to criminalize languages that are not ideologically associated with nationalism. I’m sorry I was right.

ISO Trans/nonbinary people to hire as (non-English) language experts Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials. Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert Please share!

Depending on where you live in the world, it can be difficult to source books in one's native language to read to children. This is a (free!) fill-in-the-blanks book that allows caregivers to use their language of choice! Great for bi- or multilingual families and a wonderful resource all around.

A great new resource for language revitalization and promotion! 🤩

This looks like a great resource for anyone involved with language revitalization!

I’m so appreciative of all of the love this has gotten, and I’m excited to share that I will be working with an awesome collaborator to translate the book into Spanish! / ¡Trabajaré con un colaborador increíble para traducir el libro al español! #langsky

Happy #MotherLanguageDay, a celebration of linguistic diversity championed by @unesco.org! Since today's a fun day to launch a new #language project: languagestarbook.com "You Are a Language Star" is a free children's book where you can fill in the blanks with words in any language 📖 1/11 #langsky

Coming up tomorrow at 10am Pacific! We’re excited to share these stories of language champions around the world. These are deeply personal reflections on people’s relationships to their communities and languages, and the work they do to reclaim and revitalize them. bit.ly/LanguageAndL...

roses are red language change is terrific singular they is different when it's specific

Shortened from the article: Wikimedia Foundation is building new tools that will help Wikipedia editors stay anonymous to avoid harassment & legal threats by Musk & Heritage Foundation. Some of the tactics have been pioneered by Wikimedia in countries where editing Wikipedia is illegal or dangerous.

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

I, like many others I know, have been feeling a very heavy weight of sadness and fear from the constant onslaught of The Horrors. Here are some good things from the last month — we have to keep sharing the good. Trans joy is one powerful form of resistance. 💛

“Just because we all woke up with U2’s Songs of Innocence on our iPhones doesn’t make it the most popular album of all time. This unreliable and inflated data fuels a vicious cycle: Big tech companies double down on A.I., … while waiting for users to embrace it enthusiastically.” #AI #Gemini

I had an amazing time at Face/Interface 2025, put on by @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social this weekend. So many great talks! I was struck by something @tsmullaney.bsky.social said — “Privilege is the ability to move onto ‘cooler problems.’” Let’s talk about that! 1/10 #langsky #language #technology 🧵🪡

So grateful that the wonderful @bchasemadethis.bsky.social was at Face/Interface to kick off the conference with a talk about the work we are doing together with our teammates on our @typotheque.com Indigenous North American Type project!

In December, we co-published a video together with Heiltsuk Revitalization to describe the work that we did together to add two new capital letters to the Unicode Standard for their language. To describe this effort in more detail, please read our blog post: www.typotheque.com/blog/new-uni...

“Linguistic diversity is not just a technical challenge to be solved; it is a cultural treasure to be cherished” — Dr. Tawfik Jelassi, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information #FaceInterface #langsky

Bridget Chase: indigenous data sovereignty is essential. OPAC: Ownership, Control, Access, Possession. Communities facing issues of access to Unicode representation of orthography, thoughtful keyboards, and accurate and respectful typefaces. #FaceInterface

Day 1 of Face/Interface2025 kicked off with a GREAT talk by @typotheque.com Bridget Chase: Typotheque Indigenous North American Type Research. Like you needed more reasons to buy their fonts. 👏👏👏

So excited that the wonderful @bchasemadethis.bsky.social will be at Face/Interface today to present on our ongoing work together on our Indigenous North American Type project @typotheque.com. If you can't attend in person, you can join the free live stream – don't miss Bridget's talk at 9am PST!

✈️ I am on my way to Stanford to present at Face/Interface 2025. Feeling very privileged to be in the same room as so many amazing folks working in #language #technology! While in-person tickets are sold out, you can still register for free to view the event livestream — link is below! #langsky

This International Mother Language Day, February 21, ELP invites you to a free screening of digital stories that explore the links between language, life, memory, and community. ⁠ Register at: bit.ly/LanguageAndL... ⁠

Deadline for HIGA is tomorrow (Jan 10)! HIGA brings together young minority language speakers, promoting linguistic diversity & activism at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Connect with youth worldwide + train in #language revitalization. ℹ️: www.higatopaketa.eus/en #langsky