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A special post with some thoughts on writing down indigenous languages, and the disappearance of languages in the modern and ancient worlds (with a digression on ancient Cyprus). It is vital that in trying to save modern indigenous languages from being lost, we take account of the local customs with which they are associated. Language vitality is closely interlinked with social and cultural context.

This is a post by the project director (Dr Pippa Steele) of the project Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS), based at the University of Cambridge. CREWS has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 677758).

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