United Nations of Ancient and Endangered Languages

We are a Discord server that is dedicated to ancient and endangered languages. From Latin to Wymysorys, you will find resources and partners to talk with.

[Government of Jersey @GovJersey]

Local Jèrriais teacher, Ben Spink, will accompany Deputy Montfort @DeputyTadier on a visit to Cornwall to two conferences. The trip will focus particularly on how other places support those who speak indigenous and minority languages. https://t.co/gwnTmLj5p9

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Something for the weekend? This article describes how the French language became so popular before the year 1200 https://t.co/yt1aZS1Y6i #PolonskyPre1200

[A V Hudson @wyrdwritere]

Reminder: many European, African + Middle Eastern languages were spoken in Britain long before English.
Punic inscription from Holt, 1st-3rd century AD
(@AmgueddfaCymru)
Earliest reference to London, 65 AD (Latin, @MOLArchaeology)
Earliest English: 5th century + (@britishmuseum)

[United Nations of Ancient and Endangered Languages @UNAEL2]

Ræd: Progress comes by using the words and using the grammar. Nothing better than giving a sense to the theory.

[United Nations of Ancient and Endangered Languages @UNAEL2]

Spring has sprung, why not have your skills in an ancient or endangered language blossom?

[Dr Popkins @Howtogetfluent]

Learning all six Celtic languages (with Simon Ager) - How to get fluent, with Dr Popkins - https://t.co/puMzOcrmcM via @Howtogetfluent

[BL Printed Heritage Collections @BLprintheritage]

Some Cornish literary & print history from the early 19th-century: The Penheale-Press in Launceston mostly turned out religious sermons & tracts but it also undertook wider print trade jobs including handbills on different subjects
#Cornwall #bookhistory
https://t.co/tP4dIg3z2U

[United Nations of Ancient and Endangered Languages @UNAEL2]

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[Agenda des médiévistes @RMBLF]

Happy International Hug a Medievalist Day !

N'oubliez pas de choyer vos amis et amies médiévistes en cette journée qui leur est consacrée... 😘 😘😘

[Arcadia Fund @ArcadiaFund]

For centuries, Nupa Maibi #transgender shamanic priestesses, practiced healing rituals in Manipur, India. Today, they're marginalized & their sacred language, Meibi, is threatened. They worked w/ELDP grantee Karen Parker & @ELARarchive to document it https://t.co/5bmlsU0Njy #TDOV

[Tim Brookes @TBAlphabets]

Not an endangered alphabet, but certainly the language of a highly marginalized people: this is Article One of the #UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Maay Maay, the language of the #Somali #Bantu.

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

BREAKING NEWS – Aristotle’s signature has been found @britishlibrary! An ostracon bearing his signature was discovered in the collection of inscribed pottery sherds (ostraca). Aristotle signed it to confirm he paid 60 drachms as tax on 1 April 272 BC. More later …

[EndangeredLangFund @EndLangFund]

"The first-ever Haida-language feature film" https://t.co/5nhQQtMXXb

[EndangeredLangFund @EndLangFund]

The Niuean language is currently classified by UNESCO as a "definitely endangered language". https://t.co/U2f9QHDF9b

[EndangeredLangFund @EndLangFund]

New Maori words coined for disabilities https://t.co/GJ5sAodOj0

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

The will of Wynnflæd, a woman from 10th/11th-century England, now online! Cotton Ch VIII 38 https://t.co/nsPNWcCc31

[BL_HebrewMSS @BL_HebrewMSS]

Published #HebrewProject Phase 2: Or 10318 Samaritan Pentateuch (Exodus) from 1876 (image), & Or 10271, Samaritan Pentateuch from 1509
https://t.co/uWPRJmd1fg
https://t.co/zpJsQ4em13

[A V Hudson @wyrdwritere]

In case you ever need to say 'Thank You' in Latin: 'Gratias ago tibi'
(From John 11:41 in the St Cuthbert Gospel, Add MS 89000, f. 53r)
https://t.co/9lfPKav20b
#ThankfulThursday