Linguists Collective Conference & International Mother Language Day IMLD Celebration
Meet the Speakers
LC Conference & IMLD Celebration 2026
From digging in to diversifying – a potted history of an unlikely linguist
Mark Thompson
Archiving Sylheti Manuscript and the Role of Young People in Revitalising Minority Languages
Abdullah Barbhuiya
Minority and Minoritised Languages with a Focus on Kîîtharaka, the Mother Tongue of the Atharaka People in Eastern Kenya
Professor Vasiliki Chondrogianni
Exploring ‘dangerous’, ‘hegemonic’ and ‘celebratory’ multilingualism: Language Policy & the United Nations
Lisa McEntee-Atalianis
Writing minoritised, endangered and indigenous languages
Professor Philippa M. Steele
Whispers of the Alps: Romansh Language as a Living Heritage
Dr. Ellen Cressman
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
