World Languages Archives — Planet Word Museum The museum where language comes to life Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:36:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://planetwordmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-PW_Logo_BLUE_circle-2-1-32x32.png World Languages Archives — Planet Word Museum 32 32 From the Andes to the Big Apple, Keeping an Indigenous Language Alive: Q&A with the Quechua Collective https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-andes-to-the-big-apple-keeping-an-indigenous-language-alive-qa-with-the-quechua-collective/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:57:34 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=8182 With up to about 10 million speakers, Quechua (also known as Runasimi, or “people’s language”) is the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas, and it is an official…

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]]> From the Founder: Planet Word and Climate Change https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-planet-word-and-climate-change/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:55:56 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=6297 Recently, a friend doing research on the effects of climate change on a variety of organizations asked me how climate change had affected Planet Word. At first, I thought there…

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]]> From the Founder: Disputes on the Language Front https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-disputes-on-the-language-front/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:59:36 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=4929 In the lead-up to the U.S. presidential elections of 2020, it seemed like word usage and language were always in the news. What perfect timing for launching a museum of…

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]]> Balinese, Meet Wikipedia: Revitalizing a Local Language Online https://planetwordmuseum.org/balinese-meet-wikipedia-revitalizing-a-local-language-online/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:00:00 +0000 http://planetwordmuseum.org/balinese-meet-wikipedia-revitalizing-a-local-language-online/ Balinese has long been pushed to the linguistic margins. What can revitalize it for the next generation? Collaboration, flexibility, and wiki technology! So says Alissa Stern, who founded the BASAbali…

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]]> Hieroglyphs: Emojis of the Ancient World? Not Quite https://planetwordmuseum.org/hieroglyphs-emojis-of-the-ancient-world-not-quite/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:00:00 +0000 http://planetwordmuseum.org/hieroglyphs-emojis-of-the-ancient-world-not-quite/ Emojis and GIFs help us express our meaning in texts and emails, and they sometimes seem like languages of their own. Some people have wondered, then: are emojis the new hieroglyphs?…

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