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
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
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
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
Interpreters in film: an insight into the training of diplomatic interpreters
