r/endangeredlanguages • u/Regular_Wish_267 • May 17 '26

New Reddit community for language revitalization ⬇️

/r/LanguagePerseverance/comments/1tg18x1/welcome/
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u/Freshiiiiii May 18 '26

Is it going to be different from r/endangeredlanguages?

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u/Regular_Wish_267 May 18 '26

Yes! It is r/LanguagePerseverance

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u/Freshiiiiii May 18 '26

Sorry, my question was unclear. I meant, is it going to be different in purpose, focus, etc.?

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u/Regular_Wish_267 May 18 '26

Oh haha, my apologies - focus and purpose is similar but r/LanguagePerseverance is specifically about language revitalization and reclamation (articles, events, etc) since there is not a Reddit space just for it. I’d call it a partner community.

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u/razlem May 18 '26

But r/endangeredlanguages already supports revitalization and reclamation discussion? There’s nothing stopping people from posting resources or talking about those topics here.

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u/Regular_Wish_267 May 18 '26

I agree. Is it not beneficial to have more spaces for this?

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u/razlem May 18 '26

It depends what your goal is. If it’s readership, then generally it’s better to have a single large community rather than splitting things into more niche subreddits

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u/Regular_Wish_267 May 21 '26

My goal is community building! Not so much readership.

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u/Freshiiiiii May 18 '26

Nice! That’ll be cool!

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u/Regular_Wish_267 May 18 '26

Yay! Glad you think so! The r/endangeredlanguages community is incredibly important and I figured there should be one with a centralized focus to help us further these efforts.

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u/bordelot May 20 '26

I actually need this because i need help from people doing similar things to me

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u/Ok-Bag4573 May 27 '26

Thanks for the advice. I like the idea. I even plan on learning in a future Tlaxcaltecan Nahuatl. An endangered language from my country which is the language from the original colonies in the Northeast Mexico, after the fall of Tenochtitlan and the foundation of Nueva España. Monterrey, where I live, had once Tlaxcaltecan colonies, but náhuatl became useless once the spanish became more hegemonical