David Harrison Interview on Colbert Report

On the 26 September broadcast of the Colbert Report (the “t” is silent), mock-conservative news reporter Stephen Colbert deadpans, telling his audience good riddance to half of the world’s languages. Click here (click “Watch Videos Now”) or go to the Comedy Central MotherLoad site and search for “Tongue Tied”.

He then interviews K. David Harrison, professor at Swarthmore College and Director of Research at the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, about endangered languages and Harrison’s new book When Languages Die.

Click here for interview (click “Watch Videos Now”) or go to the Comedy Central MotherLoad site and search for “Harrison”.

Twenty years of immersion

Saving a language from extinction by Loren Moreno in the Honolulu Advertiser includes photos and a video on the celebrations for twenty years of immersion in ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i (Hawaiian). The article cites proficiency in the language in more than 2000 children.

Still on blog vacation until the beginning of October, but this was too exciting to pass up!