Artist | Title | Album | Label |
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Elijah Larsen | Intro to the episode | ||
Elijah Larsen | Of the world's roughly 7000 languages, many are at risk. The organization 7000 Languages is ensuring that this trend is reversed | ||
Stephanie Witkowski, Executive Director of 7000 Languages | What is language death and how we know it's happening | ||
Great Big Sea | Mari Mac | ||
Stephanie Witkowski | How you measure language vitality | ||
P'tit Belliveau | Les bateaux dans la baie | ||
A Shamaluev | PSA for Local Eating | ||
Elijah Larsen | segue into the second half | ||
Stephanie Witkowski | Creole and pidgin languages | ||
Pamyua | Reindeer Herding Song | ||
Stephanie Witkowski | Disadvantages to the trend of everyone speaking the same language | ||
Alash | Ekki Attar (Good Horses) | ||
Stephanie Witkowski | On the popularity of Cherokee and Anishinaabe languages | ||
The Rankin Family | Mo run geal dileas | The Rankin Family | |
Elijah Larsen | Keep talking! |
Worldwide, there are more than 7000 languages spoken, but for various reasons—a big one of those being colonization—nearly half of these languages are endangered. While that statistic is awful, here’s one that brings hope: the organization 7000 Languages has created free online language-learning courses in partnership with Indigenous, minority, and refugee communities so they can keep their languages alive. Stephanie Witkowski is going to bring some of that hope to the Cookie Jar.