Endangered Alphabets
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Authors
Brookes, Tim
Publication Date
2012-06-29Alternative Title
Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures
Language
English
Type
Presentation
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Brookes, T. (2012). Endangered Alphabets [Presentation file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/243646
Description
This presentation was given at the World Oral Literature Project 2012 workshop Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures.
Abstract
The Endangered Alphabets Project is a series of carvings, a book and a continuing blog, all of which address the fact that the world has fewer than 100 writing systems and roughly a third of them are endangered—no longer taught in schools, no longer used for commerce or government, understood only by a few elders, restricted to a few monasteries or used only in ceremonial documents, magic spells, or secret love letters. For Charting Vanishing Voices, Tim Brookes will display a dozen carvings, each of which displays the word ‘words’ in an endangered writing system.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Alphabets, Script, Endangered, Carving
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This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/243646
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales
Licence URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
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