With every new book she got more and more audacious, trying out new ways to surprise us.įrom this dynamic leader's audacious vision has sprung a city that is breathtaking in scale and vision.
This would be an audacious move even for someone as bold as Schwarzenegger. “You can’t have a language come back from dying if everyone can’t learn it,” he says.Of course it helps to have days like this, where one of Microsoft's most audacious business opponents finally capitulated. Fifteen years later, Mowbray, also a crack coder, relayed a helpful program, created in his spare time, that converted Latin text to Osage.Īs Mowbray worked on an Osage keyboard, online dictionary, and thesaurus later that year, he pondered what might help sustain languages teetering on extinction in the twenty-first century. The tribe of 50,000 made the switch from a Latin alphabet to the Osage script in 2006. His efforts began in December 2019 with an email to the Osage Nation. A 197-year-old language code broadens that worldview. “A culture’s entire worldview can be contained in a language,” says Mowbray. Worldwide, more than 200 million people live with moderate to severe vision impairment-a figure that could triple by 2050 as the population ages. But a lucky dozen or so-including Braille languages for Livonian, native to Latvia Fulani of West Africa and Lakota-have gained at least preliminary government approval. Ninety percent have yet to advance further, unable to gain traction with media and government officials or tied up in bureaucratic red tape. To date, the international studies major has proposed close to 150 alphabets, from the West Slavic Sorbian and Kashubian to Chamorro and Carolinian, spoken on the Northern Mariana Islands. Since January 2021, Harris Mowbray has digitally trekked the globe, making Braille alphabets mostly for minority and endangered languages.
He is a benevolent character on the hunt for unusual ones.
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