Wow - we're proud and honored that ELP Mentor @alexnicp.bsky.social's article "Taking the Train to Dublin City: A Journey to Speaking Irish in Ireland’s Capital" was the #3 most-read story in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social Folklife Magazine this year! 👏

Just TWO DAYS left to help us reach our goal - we only need $1,000 more to reach the bare minimum for Ready to Revitalize! Help more incredible grassroots language activists connect, learn, and develop fully funded community projects, like this one that bridged Māori and Breton communities:

What does language endangerment mean to the people experiencing it? Dr. Emmanuel Ngué Um reflects: "When languages, or language practices, are threatened, it is really a threat to human relationships: the ways of living and connecting that our ancestors developed and passed on to us."

Language champions from 18 countries will be joining the 2026 Ready to Revitalize program - and we have just TEN DAYS left to raise funds for their grassroots #languagerevitalization projects! 🌱 Will you support the revitalization of Indigenous and endangered languages around the world?

Indecisive on what to give your family and friends for Christmas? Instead of a hideous, dust-collecting, last minute seasonal decoration you should opt for a donation to Ready to Revitalize 2026 for supporting Indigenous communities worldwide! @e-l-p.bsky.social givebutter.com/elp2025

"The new monolingual Irish dictionary changes this paradigm. Instead of asking 'What's the English for X?', speakers will now be empowered to ask 'What does X mean?' in their own language.”

“Our language was not dead – it’d been asleep” Carl McGrady www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

In Brittany, families are coming together to raise a new generation of speakers of Brezhoneg, an endangered Celtic language. But they’re not doing it alone - they’re learning from their friends in the Māori revival movement. How did ELP’s Ready to Revitalize program help this happen? 🧵

This #GivingTuesday, you can support grassroots language revitalization all around the world! Your donation will help launch 20 language revitalization projects, like the Ayöök textbooks developed by 2025 Ready to Revitalize member Delfina Reyes Chávez: givebutter.com/elp2025

Citizen archivists are preserving South Asia’s oral traditions — folk songs, riddles, and histories — by recording, uploading, and transcribing them on Wikimedia platforms, challenging text-centric knowledge systems and reviving marginalized voices.

In this giving season, when funding for Indigenous languages and cultures is being slashed worldwide, YOU can help build a world where all language communities thrive! Support Ready to Revitalize 2026 and help launch 20 grassroots language revitalization projects: givebutter.com/elp2025

Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.

Friday at 9am Hawaii - join us for the final session of the 2025 Language Documentation Learning Series! We’ll talk about Indigenous language revitalization, and how to find funding for this work. All are welcome, and this event (like all ELP programs) is free! Register at: bit.ly/langdoc2025

Want to look stylish while supporting language revitalization? ELP's winter 2025 shirts launch today - now with sweatshirts and hoodies! Speak up for Indigenous languages with this year's "Raven" design, and tell the world: Our Languages Will Live! endangeredlanguages.myshopify.com

One week left to apply for the 2026 Ready to Revitalize program, ELP’s free project-based course in language revitalization! Apply by December 1 at: bit.ly/rtr2026 Wondering what it’s like to be part of Ready to Revitalize? Here are some thoughts from the 2025 cohort:

We’re excited to share ELP’s 2024-2025 annual report with you! Learn about our work and impact over the past year, and read stories from some of our amazing community partners all over the world, from Sudan to India to Ukraine: endangeredlanguages.com/resource/elp...

The good folks at @e-l-p.bsky.social are taking applications for their "Ready to Revitalize" training program until Dec 1. It's a great chance to learn more about language revitalization and meet other revitalizers from all around the world. www.surveyhero.com/c/rtr2026

The recording of the 2025 Ready to Revitalize showcase is now available on YouTube, spotlighting community language revitalization programs in Canada, Kenya, the US, Indonesia, France, South Africa, Nepal, Ukraine, Cameroon, Mexico, and Aotearoa: youtu.be/Yb6zKkeMQCA?...

The recording of the Sept. 19 launch event is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/TcTTXKBIhA0

The 2025 revitalization showcase from @e-l-p.bsky.social looks like it will be a wonderful celebration of different revitalization projects from around the world. Not the best timing for an Australian audience, but tune in if you're elsewhere. endangeredlanguages.com/event/ready-...

‪And if youʻd like a (much) deeper dive, hereʻs a conversation with Dr. Larry Kimura and Haʻalilio Solomon (at the University of Hawaiʻi, who I have recently been working with), sponsored by @e-l-p.bsky.social endangeredlanguages.com/fr/node/102608

In honor of Indigenous People's Day, here's a very brief timeline of the revitalization of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. hilo.hawaii.edu/chancellor/s...

There are many highs and lows in linguistic research: from tones going up and down to emotional highs and lows like a wedding and a war In this episode we get enthusiastic about fieldwork in Babanki with Dr. Pius Akumbu

For the seventh and final share-a-thon challenge, we’re inviting you to share something from the new ELP site on social media, and tag #ELPLaunch!

For the fifth share-a-thon challenge, we’re inviting you to share about your language revitalization programs! endangeredlanguages.com/add-revitali...

The fourth share-a-thon challenge: add a language-related event happening anywhere in the world (or online)! endangeredlanguages.com/add-event

For the third Share-a-thon challenge, we’re inviting you to contribute information about a language! endangeredlanguages.com/submit-langu...

Today’s Share-a-thon challenge: contribute a resource to the collaborative resource library! endangeredlanguages.com/share-resource

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2022-32 the International Decade of Indigenous Languages and invited Indigenous peoples to initiate ideas. 💫 Here are 10 goals 📝 proposed by FPCC: fpcc.ca/stories/the-decade-of-indigenous-languages #IDIL #DecadeofIndigenousLanguages

For the first Share-a-thon challenge, we’re inviting everyone to create a profile on the new ELP site! endangeredlanguages.com/user/register

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

Announcing the new ELP! 🎉⁠ A redesigned online space to: 🌱 Strengthen language revitalization worldwide⁠ 🗣️ Share knowledge and stories⁠ 💡 Find learning resources, guidance, and ideas for your language work⁠ 🌏️ Connect across borders and boundaries⁠ 💬 All in 9 languages!⁠ endangeredlanguages.com

🌱 Something exciting is coming... If you were at the WAVES conference, you already got a sneak peek. Keep your eyes on endangeredlanguages.com, starting September 9. 👀

Are you looking for a language revitalization mentor? Our friends at ELP offer a FREE program that connects you with an expert that has knowledge and experience revitalizing their own language. 📅 Schedule a meeting with a mentor experienced language revitalizer at: endangeredlanguages.com/mentors

Job alert at UC Berkeley!

What is it like to reclaim your language from a centuries-old book? In the sixth installment of “A Stream of Voices”, Antônio Jorge Madeira Batista Silva explores his lifelong relationship with a dictionary of his language, Krenak, written in 1909. folklife.si.edu/magazine/str...

Please watch this video from Sudanese linguist Esraa Alrasheed, in which she relates her experience of war & displacement, and describes the profound psychological impacts they have, and how this impacts language maintenance and revitalization. Via @e-l-p.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlvx...

In 2024, our friends at #ELP hosted a digital storytelling workshop called “We Are Our Languages.” 10 language champions from 9 countries created powerful short films about reclaiming, documenting and revitalizing their languages. Baobao Chimi shares the story of his community in Eastern Tibet.

"I often imagined my mother and father mending the wounds of their own hearts with the thread of our language." In this moving story, Mandeep Dhillon reflects on the choice to raise her son in Punjabi and Mè'phàà, and how language carries memory, meaning, and family across distance and time.

🌍 Call for Stories — Langscape Vol. 15 Theme: “Unity in Biocultural Diversity: A Different World is Possible” We’re seeking creative contributions that explore how unity in diversity can shape a better future. Written, visual, or auditory — your story matters. 🔗 bit.ly/CfSLS15

Recurso recientemente traducido: "Campamentos Culturales para el Aprendiza de Lenguas Indígenas: Manual de Inmersión Lingüística y Cultural" de @fpcc.ca ! Incluye ejemplos, historias e imágenes de comunidades indígenas de Latinoamérica. Descarga el manual en: bit.ly/ELP-Campamen...

It's #MusicMonday - let's kick off the week with "the most chill band from Arnhem land"! Drifting Clouds is the solo project of Yolngu musician Terry Guyulak, singing in his first language, Liyawulma’mirr-Djambarrpuyngu, a language of Yolngu Matha. Check out this perfect summer track:

🗣️ Did you know that there are more communities revitalizing their languages now than ever before? Research by Dr. Gabriela Pérez Báez, a member of ELP's Governance Council, shows that language revitalization has grown steeply every single decade since the 1960s. 🌱 Why is this so important? 🧵

A new research review out of the University of British Columbia (UBC) has found that Indigenous people experience better health outcomes when they speak their traditional languages. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Regardless of where I am, I am Nyungwe in body and soul, with my feet planted in Tete and my head hovering in the global air." In this story, Mozambican linguist Sisito Matete reflects on how his language is inseparable from food, land, well-being, and identity - and how all these things can heal.

Are you able to use your language online in all the ways you want to? Do you have keyboards you can easily type your language in? If the answer is "no", ELP Governance Council member Dr. Craig Cornelius can help for FREE! Contact the Keyboard Creation Project:

We are pleased to announce our second #languagelodge workshop on July 5th 2025 1-3pm ET, where participants will design a digital ebook in their minoritized language! Register now to be part of this enriching experience: bit.ly/languagelodg...

Valeria Obando Quitiaquez will share on social media an ethnobotanical guide to her territory that documents the Quechua Qwastu names for plants, animals, sacred sites, and water sources in the Gran Tescual reservation.

ELP will be at the WAVES Global Indigenous Languages Summit in Ottawa, August 11-14. We are looking forward to meeting and learning from other language revitalization folks around the world! Learn more: waves2025.ca