Endangered Alphabets: Beyond the Borders of Writing

You've never seen writing like this. You may not even recognize it as writing. Your loss–and the world's.

For the past 16 years, Tim Brookes has been searching the world for the least-used and most marginalized forms of writing—and then advocating for them and their communities, carving them in beautiful woods, and asking questions like "Why would someone want to destroy an alphabet?" "What happens when a people can no longer use their script?" and the most deceptive of all, "What is writing, anyway?"

Endangered Alphabets: Beyond the Borders of Writing with Tim Brookes
Tue, Jul 1, 2025
12:00pm–1:30pm PT (8:00pm–9:30pm GMT)
Online via Zoom

Click here to reserve your spot! https://letterformarchive.org/shop/endangered-alphabets-writing-beyond-the-borders-of-writing/

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