This year, the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity (ILARA) was honoured to receive one of two medals of the Singer-Polignac Foundation. On 19 September 2024, the Singer-Polignac Foundation Medal was awarded to ILARA...
Writing systems, as tools of language notation, serve as visual communication mediums and cultural identity markers, representing the ancient societies that conceived, transmitted, and adapted them. In 2024, ILARA is hosting a series of...
by Melinda Fodor Prakrit is a kind of Cinderella among the classical languages of India. Initially a humble language of ordinary communication, it was considered a collection of “incorrect” dialects by the Sanskrit grammarians....
In the second video of the series, we are introducing Konstantina (Kate Constantine), an aboriginal artist of the Eora Nation, from around Sydney, Australie. Konstantina speaks Gadigal, one of Australia’s indigenous languages, which belongs...
by Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk Did you happen to miss out on the “Legendary Beasts” exhibition at the Louvre-Lens, which ended on 22 January 2024? As a consolation, here are some specimens originating in Mediaeval Latin....
