Writing endangered languages, online and off

Monday, November 14, 2022
Endangered Languages in the Digital Public Sphere: A case study of the writing systems of Boro and Manipuri (by Rachel Garton, Merrion Dale, L. Somi Roy, and Prafulla Basumatary)

Congratulations to this research team of UNT PhD students and language activists from Northeast India: Rachel Garton, Merrion Dale, L. Somi Roy, and Prafulla Basumatary. Their paper 'Endangered Languages in the Digital Public Sphere: A case study of the writing systems of Boro and Manipuri' was presented at the Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century /gʁafematik/ conference in June 2022.

They include examples from two languages, Manipuri and Bodo, and how they are written by different people on different platforms. Watch their presentation online here: https://youtu.be/0qK-tB9i8xA