#lost languages

[skeletor-n-a-meatsuit]

Ao3 is the modern Library of Alexandria and nobody can convince me otherwise

[ofruinsandmyth]

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question: Winner's Match Up 9

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? (Yes you may have a Babel Fish).

Language of the people crossing the Bering Straights Land Bridge

See the giant 40-foot tall fungi Prototaxites.

Voting ended onDec 10, 2023

These Questions are the winners from the previous iteration.

Please add new suggestions below, if you have them, for future consideration.

[ancientstuff]

Researcher investigates undocumented prehistoric languages through irregularities in current languages

Language can be a time machine—we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language als

This is fascinating.

[sammy-in-sweaters]

I mourn for the languages that are lost, the ones we are losing. The children beaten for using their native tongue in school, the pull in the stomaches of the ones alive today and the ache in their throat as they hold back tears and realize they don’t remember the word for something. I grieve for the cultures faded into a memory, or a picture, maybe even nothing. The Native people of the Americas, the Gaelic of Scotland, the longing for the feeling of a language on their tongue that will never come, the knowledge that it was not time or gradual change that stole their words from them, but men.

[linguisticalities]

(via Rare audio of indigenous languages saved by invention 100 years later)

[bjfinn]

How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes

A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes.