csillagkohó’s Reviews > Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York > Status Update

"The task [of translating New York signage into various minority languages] is enormously complicated, though not necessarily prohibitively expensive – especially if local community experts like those at the Indigenous Interpreters Collective can be involved, rather than outsourcing to exploitative private companies."

🇾🇪 "Around half of New York's ten thousand bodegas are thought to be Yemeni owned, and the owners have become ever more of a political force since the Yemeni bodega strike of 2017, which protested the Muslim travel ban."

The improbable revival of Yiddish due to the growth of conservative Hasidic groups: "Given the Hasidic birthrate, Yiddish is now growing at a ferocious rate, with half of all New York speakers under the age of eighteen. Demographically, it has gone from one of the city's "oldest" languages to one of the youngest ... For a secular Yiddishist, the Hasidic revival can be supremely ironic, fascinating, and frustrating."

Seke is een Nepalese taal met in totaal nog zo'n 700 moedertaalsprekers waarvan er 100 in Brooklyn wonen en 50 van die 100 in één Brooklyns appartementsgebouw