Linguists Collective Conference & International Mother Language Day IMLD Celebration
Meet the Speakers
LC Conference & IMLD Celebration 2026
Archiving Sylheti Manuscript and the Role of Young People in Revitalising Minority Languages
Abdullah Barbhuiya
Using Large Language Models in Linguistic Research
Professor Melanie J. Bell
Exploring ‘dangerous’, ‘hegemonic’ and ‘celebratory’ multilingualism: Language Policy & the United Nations
Lisa McEntee-Atalianis
Writing minoritised, endangered and indigenous languages
Professor Philippa M. Steele
Exploring Ways to Use AI to Preserve Disappearing Songs and Poetry of Endangered and Near-Extinct Languages
Ms. Amita Sanghavi
Sign Languages’ Endangerment – Lack of Intergenerational Transition and Recommendations for Reversing Language Shift.
Jill Jones
Using the Predictive Mode in Smartphones for Writing: Bad Effects, Recommendations and Solutions
Dr. Sabaah Abd Alhassan Sabit
Minority and Minoritised Languages with a Focus on Kîîtharaka, the Mother Tongue of the Atharaka People in Eastern Kenya
Professor Vasiliki Chondrogianni
The Sacred Inspection: An Igbo Framework for Digital Safety
Dennis Kelechi Okpara
From Mother Tongue to Public Service Interpreter: Pathways into Professional Practice in the UK
Marta Leigh
Language, Culture and Identity in the Diaspora and Homeland in the Latvian Case
Ms. Valda Selga Liepiņa
Interpreters in film: an insight into the training of diplomatic interpreters
Muhammad Y Gamal
Development of interprofessional competence among trainee interpreters
Dr. Natalia Rodríguez-Vicente
Who Are We, Mom? — Language, Identity, and the Stories We Pass Down
