We are hosting a meet-up on 21st February to celebrate our linguistic diversity. Bharathesha will be out guest speaker, enlightening the participants of Indic Oral Culture Project regarding his documentary on "Purse Kattuna". We invite you to join the discussion 🙏🏾

Read about Angika in Wikimedia projects, efforts to preserve language diversity in Malaysia, Wikimedia in education and more here: diff.wikimedia.org/2024/02/21/wik… #Languages #angika #MotherLanguageDay #wikimedia #Innovation #education #diversity

The The Guardian says 'endangered languages' are "spoken by a few but of value to many," but when you justify language by its value, you create conditions where some languages can be judged as lacking value and can thus be eliminated. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Nine South Asian language communities come together to document their oral culture via Wikimedia projects dlvr.it/T64CJh

During housewarmings in the Ahirwal region of India, it's customary to invite the homeowner's sister to decorate the home's entrance. Here is an Ahirwati folksong about a sibling's talks about housewarming preparations: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V%27… #ahirwati #languagediversity #IOCP

Job alert: Communications and community coordinator required! The role will be under the project 'Enhancing Indic Oral Culture on Wikimedia projects'. Feel free to contact me for more details. Application deadline: 25th June 2024

My thoughts on how female practitioners of Angika folk literature voice their rights through folk songs:globalvoices.org/2024/06/25/lov… P.S. working on this article and the illustration brought back memories of attending relatives' weddings. #angika #feminism #culture #languages

Love, marriage and rebellion: Exploring feminist themes in #India's Angika folk songs Songs and tales are used by practitioners as a medium to express discontent with the status quo and to assert their individuality. Amrit Sufi globalvoices.org/2024/06/25/lov…

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

Satdeep Gill Maari Maitreyi (@[email protected] on Mastodon), Dristi Manandhar (Archive Nepal), Amrit Sufi and Zubair Torwali discuss "Whose culture? Approaches to protecting digital sovereignty of traditional knowledge" #GVSummit2024

Global Voices Summit 2024 Current Panel: Whose culture? Approaches to protecting digital sovereignty of traditional knowledge Moderator: Satdeep Gill Panelists: Maari Maitreyi, Zubair Torwali, Amrit Sufi and Dristi Manandhar #GVsummit2024 Global Voices

'Global Voices Kathmandu Summit 2024 Current Panel: The internet isn't multilingual enough: A spotlight on Indigenous language digital activism gv2024.sched.com/event/1qsH9/th… Moderator: Eddie Avila Panelists: Amrit Sufi, Sanjib Chaudhary, Janak Bhatta, Bikram Rana et al #GVSummit2024

AI cannot solve the material, social and political problems that are driving global language endangerment, says Gerald Roche, an associate professor at La Trobe University in Australia whose work focuses on power, the state, colonialism and racism. lingua.globalvoices.org/2024/12/four-v…

Minoritized languages speakers are turning to digital tools to digitise their language and culture. So that they don't disappear, resulting in loss of knowledge systems. More about how I do it for my mother tongue Angika: theguardian.com/global-develop… #Angika #Diversity #languages

Poush month in Bihar calls for "Chikna'r Pitha". It is steamed and is a sweet rice powder pudding filled with Flaxseeds and Jaggery.

Research has long established that learning multiple languages=quick cognitive processing skills. But unaware Indian parents avoid teaching their mother tongue to their children, fearing it will result in confusion & language delays in kids, and prefer teaching dominant languages

Just came across an article written by Amrit Sufi प्रेम, विवाह और विद्रोह: भारत के अंगिका लोकगीतों में नारीवादी विषयों की खोज अपनी संस्कृति का दस्तावेजीकरण करना, इसे बेहतर ढंग से समझना भी है hi.globalvoices.org/2024/07/07/203… #अंगिका #Angika

"अपनी संस्कृति का डिजिटलाइजेशन करना, इसे बेहतर ढंग से समझना भी है" बांका जिले की Amrit Sufi Wikimedia और Wikisource जैसे प्लेटफॉर्म को अंगिका भाषा को डिजिटलाइज कर रही हैं। इस आर्टिकल को जरूर पढ़ें - globalvoices.org/2024/06/25/lov…