{"id":17881,"date":"2019-03-25T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T20:18:14","slug":"endangered-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/03\/25\/endangered-alphabets\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been fascinated by writing systems across languages and history. Languages, whether written or spoken, sometimes remind me of living organisms: Over time they not only change and adapt, but can become endangered and extinct.<\/p>\n<p>To reduce the chances of language extinction, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endangeredalphabets.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Endangered Alphabets Project<\/a> aims<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>to play an active role in preserving endangered cultures by using their writing systems to create artwork and educational materials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endangeredalphabets.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlas of Endangered Alphabets<\/a>\u00a0provides writing samples as well as linguistic history. You can search the Atlas from an embedded map or by text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been fascinated by writing systems across languages and history. Languages, whether written or spoken, sometimes remind me of living organisms: Over time they not only change and adapt, but can become endangered and extinct. To reduce the chances of language extinction, the Endangered Alphabets Project aims to play an active role in preserving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,107,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-lettering-scripts","category-alphabets","category-languages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17890,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions\/17890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}