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 2025, as part of our ongoing commitment...
by Melinda Fodor Without two fundamental inventions—language and writing—knowledge could not have evolved. Among different writing and calculating systems, there was an ancient Indian script, Brāhmī, which gave rise to an ingenious numbering system...
On 27 November 2024, ILARA was honoured to participate in the panel discussion titled “Speaking in Harmony: Embracing Multilingualism in the 21st Century as an Enabler of Multilateral Diplomacy and a Vector for Cultural...
by Guillaume Jacques Speakers of European languages are all familiar with the concept of grammatical tense, which is marked in conjugation to show whether an action takes place before (past), during (present), or after...
In “Banor at Play”, we are introduced to Mr. Claude Meintz and his children Frida, Armand, Lucien, and Henri. Together, they share how they are breathing new life into their father’s ancestral language in...
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ILARA, the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity, is a centre for training in, expertise on and resources relating to languages that are rarely studied in a university setting. It offers flexible and innovative courses for such languages, which have either been seldom described or taught in past scholarship, or are now in danger of extinction (some are already extinct), or both. The Institute thus builds a bridge between the study of ancient languages (documented only in writing), and of those languages which possess an extant oral tradition (the documentation of these latter thus includes an audio-visual dimension).