Sprognyheder

Em 21 de fevereiro celebrado o Dia Internacional da Lingua Materna, proclamado pela Unesco.

A look at the ways that the construction of language can have implications for the way we think, act and parse the world around us.

Em uma voz firme e profunda, Bose Yacu entoa os cânticos que ela aprendeu com seu pai na região boliviana da floresta Amazônica, há 50 anos. Os cinco sobreviventes dos pacahuaras vivem nas cercanias de Alto Ivon, um remoto vilarejo no nordeste da Bolívia, para onde eles foram relocados em 1969.

Sprogforskere er i intern strid om, hvorvidt sproget hos et lille indiansk folk i Amazonas vender op og ned på den gængse sprogteori.

Fredag 9. Maj, kl. 15.30, aarhus: film og forelæsning Daniel Everett er en berømt amerikansk lingvist, der i 30 år har forsket i et sydamerikansk indianersprog. Et lille, men levedygtigt sprog, der strider mod forestillingen om, hvad alle sprog har til fælles. På fredag holder han forelæsning om det utrolige sprog.

Den amerikanske antropolog og lingvist Dan Everett viser filmen ”The Grammar of Happiness” i Århus fredag den 11. maj kl. 15.30.

The Chukchansi variety of the Yokuts language will be preserved and revitalized thanks to a $1 million gift from the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians to Fresno State’s College of Arts and Humanities for the Department of Linguistics

SB130 would establish the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council, which would evaluate the state's 20 indigenous languages and make recommendations for preservation, restoration and revitalization. Olson said that while educators have made great efforts, indigenous people throughout Alaska feel first languages continue to become extinct. One example of this, he said, is when the last speaker of Eyak, died in 2008.

Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett – review. Native speakers of Pirahã, in the Amazon lowland jungle, have no words for left or right, they use the same term for blue and green, and their definitions of red, black and white turn out to be similes, rather than dedicated words.

The success of a Native American language immersion school is growing. The school has more students than it ever has and they are teaching their parents what they are learning.

A Native American student is suspended from a basketball game for speaking the Menominee language in class. see also: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Ketapanen-not-four-letter-word/

It is said "love is universal." As Valentine's Day is celebrated today we thought it would be appropriate to share "I love you" in dozens of Native languages.

Mens der er fem sprogfamilier i Europa, er der ca. 50 i Nordamerika, og ikke færre end 11 af dem i Canada. Flere af de indianske sprogfamilier er temmelig store. Alle sprogfamilier der findes i Canada, er i øvrigt også repræsenteret i USA. Grænsen deler ikke kun sprogfamilier, men der er også sprog der tales på begge sider af grænsen; der er endda et Mohawk-reservat, Kahnawake, der er fordelt over to canadiske provinser og en USA-stat.

 Discussing the concept of recursion is like a rite of passage for anyone interested in language evolution: there are two definitions of recursion: (1) embeddedness of phrases within other phrases, which entails keeping track of long-distance dependencies among phrases; (2) the specification of the computed output string itself, including meta-recursion, where recursion is both the recipe for an utterance and the overarching process that creates and executes the recipe. There is a debate surrounding a small Amazonian tribe called the Pirahã.

Deep in the heart of the Amazon is a mysterious language no outsider has ever learned. Until now. After thirty years of research and life with the Pirahas, one man has finally...

Keith Little, the longtime president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association until his death, traveled the country seeking funding for the museum and veterans center that is expected to cost nearly $43 million. He preached about the preservation of Navajo traditions, culture and the language that the federal government tried to eradicate before he and others were called on to use it during the war

In Chile, there are nine recognized Indigenous peoples throughout the country. Historically, these nine peoples spoke eight different languages (both the Quechua people and the Colla people spoke variants of Quechua). Today, two of those languages—Kunza, traditionally spoken by the Atacameño people, and the previously-mentioned Kakan—are considered extinct. Despite this classification, there have been efforts in recent months and years to document what remains of those languages in an attempt to revitalize them.

Chester Nez is the last of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers. All the rest of the Marines who created the first unbreakable code that baffled the Japanese during World War II have died.

Da europæerne først kom til Kalifornien taltes der mange forskellige sprog, rigtigt mange – 78 – og meget forskellige sprog. Da jeg kom til Kalifornien i 1998 taltes der også mange sprog, men ikke de samme. Af de 78 oprindelige sprog, er omkring halvdelen uddøde (eller i hi) og resten er stærkt truede. Omvendt tales der nu et væld af indvandrersprog, først og fremmest engelsk.FORELÆSNING OM KARUKved Line Mikkelsen, Associate professor i lingvistik ved UC Berkeley, CalifornienFredag 28 oktober kl 11-13, Aarhus Universitet, Bygning 1325, Lokale 136

In a great use of comic art, Roy Boney Jr. has created a graphic feature for the magazine Indian Country Today about the history of the Cherokee syllabary developed by Sequoyah in the early 19th century. Boney begins with the syllabary's inception and early use, and continues all the way through technological developments like the Selectric typewriter and Unicode standardization.

The 16th European Maya Conference is co-organized by the University of Copenhagen (Department of American Indian Languages and Cultures, Institute of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies), the Danish National Museum (Nationalmuseet) and Wayeb (European Association of Mayanists), and will be held from December 5th to 10th, 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark. A four-day Workshop (Dec. 5-8th) will precede a two-day Symposium (Dec. 9-10th).