Polyglots Anonymous

Project ALOT Endangered Language #4

Hi Everyone, Can you believe it's already April? Where does the time go? Why do fools fall in love? Anyway, that means we're on Endangered Language #4 already. After spending hours with a North American language, a European language, and an Asian language, I decided I wanted to mix things up a little bit. So I'm choosing a language from a different region, and one that has a structured yet accessible grammar, weird phonetics, and a nutty orthography. (Luckily, in addition to the script, this language has a lovely romanized transliteration.) While the number of speakers fluctuates, I'm certain that... Read more →

Project ALOT: Why Navajo?

Hi there, Language Fans, Navajo Learners-To-Be, Dying Language Savers, and anyone who came to this site accidentally—we don’t discriminate! At last, another video! Here I discuss why I’ve chosen the Navajo language as Project ALOT’s first language. (And no, the person in the video is not a computer-generated character. He’s an actual person. Really.) Here are some of my favorite links on the Navajo Star Wars project. There's a ton of stuff out there on this project, but here are just a few of my favorites. Here's the original announcement that Star Wars was being dubbed into Navajo (with info... Read more →