Endangered Alphabets
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| Description: | 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. |
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| Created: | 2012-08-22 13:23 |
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| Collection: | World Oral Literature Project Workshop 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Tim Brookes |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | Oral Literature; Oral Tradition; Linguistic Anthropology; Alphabets; Script; Endangered; Carving; |