Crafting Meaning: Language Extinction & Revival

Welcome back to Steeped in Storytelling, where every cup is a portal to the interconnected power of story, science, and sound.  

This is an episode about what's fading, how words change, and what we can choose to carry forward. Today we’re sipping a tisane full of berries, mint, rose, and hibiscus.

 

Show Notes

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Steeped in Storytelling, Season 1, Episode 7 “Crafting Meaning: Language Extinction & Revival.” Hosted and Produced by DeLong Voiceover. Released 27 November 2025 via Podbean.

Some of the spaces I spent time in, researching for this episode: 

• Indigenous Corporate Training ictinc.ca 
• youtube.com/@PuyallupTribalLanguage 
• youtube.com/@NavajoGrandma 
• aacimotaatiiyankwi.org 
• tulaliplushootseed.com 
• HowtoPronounce.com 
• National Geographic
• Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages 
• Wikipedia
• Hawai’i Public Radio 

Sound Credits

• Sound effects by freesound_community from Pixabay
• Music by folk_acoustic from Pixabay