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Voices of the Earth, Part 1

Volume 5, Issue 1  |  2023

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To mark Terralingua’s 20th anniversary, we return to our roots with the theme “Voices of the Earth.” In 1996, we chose the name Terralingua to reflect both the voice of Nature and the languages of the world’s peoples, shaped by their environments. This issue celebrates these voices with global stories that explore this deep connection. Read the Editorial and Table of Contents.

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Langscape Magazine 5-1

Editorial  | Listening to the Voices of the Earth

Langscape Magazine Volume 5, Issue 1  |  2016 It’s 2016, and that makes it two decades since Terralingua came into existence, with a unique…
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biocultural diversity

Biocultural Diversity: Reason, Ethics, and Emotion

by David Harmon North Pindos, Greece. The return of the shepherds and their flocks. Photo: Stamos Abatis, 2015. Not long ago, Luisa Maffi shared an email…
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biocultural diversity

When Grasshopper Means Lightning: How Ecological Knowledge is Encoded in Endangered Languages

by David Stringer Above: Kayapó women in the Amazon rainforest. Photo: Cristina Mittermeier, 2007 . Endangered Languages and Biocultural Diversity Conservation Just over twenty years…
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Naming the Dragonfly: Why Indigenous Languages Matter in the 21st Century

by James D. Nations Chan K’in José Valenzuela uses a machete to carve a bird bolt arrow. Photo: James D. Nations, 1975. . Chiapas, Mexico,…
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biocultural diversity

Melquiades’s Garden: Exploring the Cultivated Nature of Mexico’s Chinantla Region

by Aran Shetterly . Milpas beyond town, making a patchwork of the mountain slopes. Residents walk up to two hours from Santa Cruz Tepetotutla…
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly

Mother Tongues: Two Writers Explore the Words and Cultures That Shape Their Connection to Place

by Dawn Wink and Susan J. Tweit "Of all the arts and sciences made by man, none equals a language, for only a language…
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biocultural diversity

Wild Speech: Listening Through the Portal of Imagination

by Geneen Marie Haugen Slickrock, skeleton and sky. Photo: Bruce Howatt, 2009 The second cougar-kill I’ve encountered in three days smells fresh: a sweetish, iron-tinged…
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Salal in Drought

Freeway Coyote

by Lee Beavington I watch coyote cross the freeway trickster weaves amid wheeled gods her belly droops with gaunt lactation survivor of west coast…
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biodiversity

De Prima: Stories of the Old Days in Umbria, the Green Heart of Italy

by Anna Maffi Warm winter light over the San Giacomo valley. Photo: Anna Maffi, 2014 . Olives, grapes, barley, alfalfa, and a few fruit…
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Cristina Calderón: Memories of My Yagan Grandmother

by Cristina Zárraga Landscape of Bahía Mejillones, Onaašáka (Beagle Channel). Photo: Oliver Vogel, 2014 “I was born in Róbalo, on the 24th of May.…
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biocultural diversity

A Blossoming Time at ÁLEṈENEȻ (Homeland): Reclaiming W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) Place Names on the West Coast of Canada

by Alice Meyers in conversation with Earl Claxton Jr. (Thuh-thay-tun Kapilano) Alice and Earl. Photo: Anonymous, 2016 This is the story of my friendship…
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traditional ecological knowledge

Rough Waves and Remembered Names in Haida Gwaii

by Graham Richard On August 11, 2015, a Haida-language team set forth from G̱aaw on a three-day journey to survey the north and west coasts…
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biocultural diversity

Pintando La Raya: Indigenous Resistance and Biocultural Conservation through Participatory Video

by Thor Edmundo Morales At the onset of this decade, members of three ethnic groups gathered in the state of Sonora, northwestern Mexico. Seri…
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olives

It Takes Millennia to Make Ciccimmaretati: Cilento, Italy, as a Master of Biocultural Wisdom

by Dario Ciccarelli View of the town of Pollica in Cilento, Italy. Photo: Giuseppe Cucco, 2006 Since January 1, 1995, when the World Trade…
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mobile pastoralist

On the Move: Reawakening the Common Language of the Mediterranean’s Mobile Pastoralists

Text by Liza Zogib, Divya Venkatesh, & Sandra Spissinger Photographs by Stamos Abatis (Greece), Gema Arugaetta (Spain), Wassim Ghozlani (Tunisia), Bariş Koca (Turkey), Asaad…
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