Special Issue on Indigenous Languages: Introduction

Sarah G. Thomason

doi:10.1353/lan.2019.0087

Special Issue on Indigenous Languages: Introduction

Language ◽

10.1353/lan.2019.0087 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 95 (S1) ◽

pp. e474-e478

Author(s):

Sarah G. Thomason

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Languages ◽

Special Issue

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COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

IARS' International Research Journal ◽

10.51611/iars.irj.v11i1.2021.148 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 03-04

Author(s):

Maya David ◽

Prasannanshu Prasannanshu

Keyword(s):

Native Speakers ◽

Provincial Government ◽

Indigenous Languages ◽

Endangered Languages ◽

Minority Languages ◽

Special Issue ◽

Social Activist ◽

Medical Specialists ◽

Research Journal ◽

Local Languages

This Special Issue of IARS International Research Journal contains eight articles which investigate diverse aspects of Endangered Languages and COVID-19. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has redefined the way we live, work, and think. Consequently, it has become necessary for leaders, specialists, scholars, and academics of various fields to re-examine their positions and research objectives and methodologies in the context of this pandemic. The field of endangered languages is no different: It was soon realised that the effect of the pandemic on endangered languages is far reaching. In many countries, government and non-government institutions and agencies have attempted to make information about the virus available in minority languages. Sebastian Drude (2020) in a Foundation of Endangered languages blog reports on the effort of Pakistani social activist Zubair Torwali, who worked with the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to produce a series of information videos in a number of local languages and also of Malaysian Rusaslina Idrus who has co-ordinated teams of translators, medical specialists and native speakers to make Covid-19 information posters available in a number of Malaysian indigenous languages.

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