logo
episode-header-image
Aug 2017
33m 33s

Endangered Alphabets

RWS
About this episode
As language professionals we hear a lot about the dangers of disappearing languages. But what about writing systems? What happens to a culture when new generations can't read its ancestral alphabet? Join us for a fascinating—and unscripted—conversation with Tim Brooks, founder of the Endangered Alphabet Project.  
Up next
Oct 13
Cultural Intelligence Series - What it takes to move enterprise AI from partnership to production
Most enterprise AI projects start as a technology problem. They end as a data and culture problem. Ankit Mathur, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, joins the Cultural Intelligence Podcast with a perspective few people have: not from inside one enterprise, but from across an enti ... Show More
22m 11s
Oct 13
Human expertise at the core, AI in the loop: the future of software localization
In this Globally Speaking episode, RWS Principal Product Manager Luis Lopes sat down with Milen Epik, President of Epik Global Solutions, and Adam Asnes, CEO and founder of Lingoport, to explore what software localization looks like now that AI coding agents are part of everyday ... Show More
1h 13m
Sep 30
Cultural Intelligence Series - The creative case for cultural intelligence in enterprise AI
A direct translation can be accurate and still creatively dead. Stu Davison, Creative Director at RWS, joins the Cultural Intelligence Podcast to show us what happens to a big creative idea when it has to cross a border, and why the adapted version doesn't always have to be ident ... Show More
14m 43s
Recommended Episodes
Sep 2025
Diversité linguistique en péril (Linguistic Diversity at Risk)
Des langues rares disparaissent à un rythme alarmant, emportant avec elles des cultures uniques. Les efforts de préservation sont cruciaux pour l’humanité. Traduction :Rare languages are vanishing at an alarming rate, taking unique cultures with them. Preservation efforts are cru ... Show More
2m 56s
Aug 2019
Mother Tongue
How do you preserve a language when your government is actively trying to erase it?Abduweli Ayup is a Uyghur linguist who was trying to stop the Chinese government from replacing Uyghur with Mandarin. He had been studying the language's history, teaching Uyghur to younger student ... Show More
35m 46s
Nov 2019
How to save a language from extinction | Daniel Bögre Udell
As many as 3,000 languages could disappear within the next 80 years, all but silencing entire cultures. In this quick talk, language preserver Daniel Bögre Udell shows how people around the world are finding new ways to revive ancestral languages and rebuild their traditions -- a ... Show More
6m 25s
Jan 2024
How to Save Indigenous Languages
From Papua New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, Indigenous languages are under threat. An Indian linguist helped preserve one language family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 
12 m
Jan 2023
Bringing dead languages back to life
Australia used to be one of the most linguistically diverse places, with over 200 languages. Today, many of Australia’s indigenous languages are considered “highly endangered”. Inspired by his native language, Hebrew, Ghil’ad Zuckermann is a linguistics professor who is on a miss ... Show More
26m 13s
Feb 2022
Mother Tongue
How do you preserve a language when your government is actively trying to erase it?Abduweli Ayup is a Uyghur linguist who was trying to stop the Chinese government from replacing Uyghur with Mandarin. He had been studying the language's history, teaching Uyghur to younger student ... Show More
35m 37s
Feb 2024
How to save a dying language
There are more than 7000 languages spoken around the world. However, nearly 40 percent of them are considered endangered and are at risk of dying out completely. It’s estimated that in the next one hundred years, at least half of the languages spoken today won’t be around anymore ... Show More
13m 19s