Did you guys know that it’s estimated that half of the world’s 7000 languages are going to be extinct by the end of this century? Have you ever wondered how this happens, or would you like to know how we can combat this? Then this episode is for you!

Our guest today is Guillem Belmar Viernes. Guillem is a PhD student at the University of California in Santa Barbara, but originally from Girona in Catalonia, Spain.

Guillem did his BA in Translation, has a Master in Language Science and Hispanic Linguistics and a Masters in Multilingualism.



For his PhD, he is working on Minoritized Languages from different perspectives such as varieties of Mixtec Language spoken in California - but his research interests are much broader: He is interested in Language revitalization; endangered languages; language documentation; Native American Languages as well as Romance Languages and Germanic Languages. He is fluent in Catalan, Spanish, English and French, but - hold on to your seats, he also knows Galician, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Basque, Mandarin, West Frisian, Dutch and German.



The people and links Guillem mentioned are as follows:

Personal Twitter: @GuillemBelmar

Twitter: Yucunani

Facebook: Yucunani Sà'án Sàvǐ

Instagram: Yucunani_Saansavi

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/saansavi-yucunani

Gofundme: https://sites.google.com/view/saansavi-yucunani/donation-donaciones?authuser=



Experts on Endangered Languages: Haunani-Kay Trask and Wesley Leonard

Mixtec Languages Guest Lecturer: Jeremias Salazar

Study on Catalan: Joan Pujolar and Maite Puigdevall

Go to our website to read the transcript!

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Recorded on 02/12/2021

Music: Arc of the Sun by The 126ersssssss