Sheena Shah

‘I thought it was going to perish’: the remarkable revival of an endangered language in Lesotho Concentrated among 1,000 people in the remote Daliwe valley, siPhuthi has gained a dictionary, a Bible translation and official recognition thanks to intrepid linguists and activists

The siPhuthi language is featured in @theguardian.com!

Read about our work with activists and community members to document and revitalise the language - and see some beautiful photos of Lesotho.

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Story by @rachelmsavage.bsky.social

#Lesotho #Linguistics #LangSky

Universitätsprofessur (W2) Linguistik des Deutschen: Grammatik und Fachdidaktik - Technische Universität Dortmund Technische Universität Dortmund bietet Stelle als Universitätsprofessur (W2) Linguistik des Deutschen: Grammatik und Fachdidaktik in Dortmund - jetzt bewerben!

📢 W2-Professur: Linguistik des Deutschen – Grammatik und Fachdidaktik at @tu-dortmund.bsky.social – apply by 11.06.2025

Great #job in #Germanistik / #Linguistik:
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TU Dortmund (my former workplace) is a wonderful place to work – great team, great environment!

📘 New chapter out! We look at how language documentation has evolved - from focusing on single languages to building multilingual corpora, with more collaboration and speaker involvement.
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#Linguistics #LanguageDocumentation #LanguageContact #Multilingualism #Africa

Hiring a dream team in linguistic diversity and social participation Visit the post for more.

We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de

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