Open AccessCOVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
Author(s) -
Maya Khemlani David,
Prasannanshu Prasannanshu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iars international research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2202-2821
pISSN - 1839-6518
DOI - 10.51611/iars.irj.v11i1.2021.148
Subject(s) - pandemic , government (linguistics) , endangered species , context (archaeology) , political science , covid-19 , work (physics) , public relations , indigenous , sociology , geography , linguistics , population , medicine , engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , ecology , disease , mechanical engineering , philosophy , demography , archaeology , pathology
This Special Issue of IARS International Research Journal contains eight articles which investigate diverse aspects of Endangered Languages and COVID-19. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has redefined the way we live, work, and think. Consequently, it has become necessary for leaders, specialists, scholars, and academics of various fields to re-examine their positions and research objectives and methodologies in the context of this pandemic. The field of endangered languages is no different: It was soon realised that the effect of the pandemic on endangered languages is far reaching.
In many countries, government and non-government institutions and agencies have attempted to make information about the virus available in minority languages. Sebastian Drude (2020) in a Foundation of Endangered languages blog reports on the effort of Pakistani social activist Zubair Torwali, who worked with the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to produce a series of information videos in a number of local languages and also of Malaysian Rusaslina Idrus who has co-ordinated teams of translators, medical specialists and native speakers to make Covid-19 information posters available in a number of Malaysian indigenous languages.