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Linguists
- Lisa Green – Wikipedia
- Joseph Hill – [Landecker, Heidi. “A Deaf Linguist Explores Black American Sign Language,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 9, 2014.]
- John McWhorter – Wikipedia
- Adrienne Washington – [“The First African American to Earn a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, May 4, 2016.]
- Mark Hanna Watkins – [Spears, Arthur K. “This Month in Linguistics History: Tribute to Mark Hanna Watkins,” Linguistic Society of America.]
Linguistic societies
Saving Languages
- Africa: Rise and Rise of Kiswahili As South Africa Embraces National Language
- The digital platform saving Indigenous languages from extinction
- How Hip-Hop is Saving A Dying Colombian Language
- Losing Africans In Translation: The Death of African Languages is the Death of Africans
- Meet the Man Saving His Language from Extinction
- Miriwoong: The Australian language which barely anybody speaks
- Reviving Colombia's 'language of resistance'
- Trying to save South Africa's first language
Videos
- Birth of a nickname - John McWhorter
- A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorter
- John McWhorter: "Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America's Lingua [...]" | Talks at Google
- John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
- Linguists on African American Language: Tracey Weldon
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