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Understanding the linguistic diversity found among London's schoolchildren is a key factor in assuring the city's future as a "global player" researchers say.

Pakistan is one of the many countries in the modern world that can boast of a rich cultural, demographic, and geographic diversity. People in the US are often surprised when they are told that Pakistan has beautiful mountain ranges and places where it snows even in summer (many Americans consider Pakistan to be a desert country somewhere in the Middle East!). The same Americans are frequently stunned to learn that Pakistan is a multilingual country where roughly 72 languages are spoken (many Americans think that every country in the world is largely monolingual and mono-ethnic).

Bangladesh can justly claim to be a nation born of language, but its status as a cradle of linguistic diversity is under threat from nationalist pride and economic growth.

Gyani Maiya Sen, a 75-year-old woman from western Nepal, can perhaps be forgiven for feeling that the weight of the world rests on her shoulders. She is the only person still alive in Nepal who fluently speaks the Kusunda language. The unknown origins and mysterious sentence structures of Kusunda have long baffled linguists.

Han optræder mange steder for tiden: The Guardian, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Nature – for blot at nævne nogle, men fredag stod den amerikanske lingvist Daniel Everett foran et nysgerrigt og spørgelystent publikum på Aarhus Universitet.han talte om Amazonesprog Pirahã. Sproget adskiller sig mest afgørende ved, at det er et ikke-rekursivt sprog. Rekursion er muligheden for at lave blandt andet ledsætninger, hvilket ellers regnes for et universelt træk ved alle sprog, men Everett´s påstand er, at der ikke findes underordnede led på Pirahã-sprog.

Experience the widely acknowledged and controversial American anthropologist/linguist Daniel Everett. Everett will show a film about his life with the Pirahɑ̃-people in the Amazon: “The Grammar of Happiness”. And give a lecture on the language. Aarhus, May 11. Exclusive for Scandinavia

A further 111,000 people use the language outside school at least once a week, but 439,000 never do it · Almost 70% of Gaeltacht dwellers declare themselves as speakers of the Celtic language.

In 2001 the Frisian Broadcasting Company Omrop Fryslân has produced a series of five documentary films for the national TV in the Netherlands which shows the position of some minority languages in Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation and the work related to the study and safeguarding of these languages. The first film in this series describes the reconstruction of historical sound material in the archives of the Pushkinsky Dom, the Russian Institute of Literature in Saint-Petersburg. It shows the collection of Edison wax cylinders and the way material of some endangered languages in Russia can be obtained from these recordings. You can watch it online.

Diese These sorgte für Schlagzeilen: Das Kiezdeutsch, das Jugendliche in Berliner Hinterhöfen sprechen, sei ein neuer Dialekt, behauptete unlängst die Potsdamer Germanistin Heike Wiese. Das aber sei grundfalsch, erwidert ihr nun der Bamberger Sprachwissenschaftler Helmut Glück (62) im Interview.

As well as Belgium’s French and Flemish-speaking regions, a handful of municipalities speak German. But, with increasing division between Flanders and Wallonia, the eastern Cantons have been looking at their options.

De tilstedeværende vil kunne tale over 40 forskellige sprog på samme tid. Anledningen er en konference på Aarhus Universitet om kreolsprog, som tiltrækker lingvister fra hele verden. man vil måske kunne høre nogle tale gurindji, sinhala og yoruba, når Aarhus Universitet er vært for en international sprogkonference.

I år er det 25 år siden, Alice Stevens døde. Hun var den sidste, der talte sproget ”negerhollandsk”. Et sprog, der på en særlig måde er knyttet til Danmark. ­­Blandt lingvister diskuterer man i øjeblikket, om kreolsprog adskiller sig fra ikke-kreolsprog. Har alle 70 kreolsprog, der findes i verden, noget til fælles, ud over de særlige omstændigheder omkring deres opståen, der adskiller dem fra de ca. 7000 andre sprog, der findes i verden?

On April 6, 2012, the Tuareg rebels declared the independence of the territory under their control in northern Mali, deeming the country “Azawad.”

I Sverige afgik forsvarsministeren for nogle dage siden efter eget ønske. Han havde ikke gjort noget, der i juridisk forstand var forkert, og han havde sin chefs, Sveriges statsministers, fulde støtte til den førte politik. Hans problem var ikke politisk, men at han ikke længere kunne holde stand mod mediernes klapjagt.

SPROG: Flere folkeskoler skal tilbyde eleverne indvandrersprog som valgfag. Det mener børne- og undervisningsminister Christine Antorini (S), som vil undersøge muligheden for at oprette indvandrersprog som valgfag allerede fra 7. klasse med en afsluttende eksamen.

Konference om kreolsprog I år er det 25 år siden, Alice Stevens døde. Hun var den sidste, der talte sproget negerhollandsk. Et sprog, der på en særlig måde er knyttet til Danmark. Inden længe endda på dansk grund igen, når lingvister fra 28 lande mødes til en konference på Aarhus Universitet i denne måned.

Dansk Folkepartis uddannelsesordfører Alex Ahrendtsen er på stikkerne, efter at have fået nys om, at undervisningsministeren går med tanker om at udbrede valgfag i indvandrersprog og gøre fagene til prøvefag.

Mobilisation nationale, samedi 31 mars : les défenseurs des langues régionales manifesteront ce jour-là, notamment çà Quimper, contre la "frilosité" de l'Etat à l'encontre de ces patrimoines menacés. Avec un objectif précis : profiter de la campagne présidentielle pour réclamer une nouvelle fois la ratification de la Charte pour la sauvegarde des langues régionales.

Sprog, som tales af få, er ikke alene truet af udryddelse. De er også vanskelige at anvende i vores mere og mere netbaserede kommunikation. Nordisk Råd ønsker derfor at støtte udvikling af sprogteknologi og internetressourcer for de grønlandske og samiske sprog for at sikre deres overlevelse i den fagre nye IT verden.

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.

Mit Ausschluss Basta! haben wir 2011 dem austriakischen Integrations-Theater eine Absage erteilt. Dieses Jahr reden wir übers Reden: Unsere gemeinsame Sprache ist nicht Deutsch! Wir rufen zum Streik gegen den Deutschzwang auf. Sprechen wir gemeinsam die Sprache der gleichen Rechte – am 1. März beim transnationalen, translationalen Migrant_innenstreik. Let´s Sprachstreik the one-language-show down!

Technology aimed at translating sign language into text is being developed by Aberdeen scientists. The portable sign language translator (PSLT) would use the camera on devices such as laptops and phones. An app would then translate the movements into text which can be read by people, who may not understand sign language.

Deaf children in Viet Nam will soon have access to opportunities to learn their native sign language through the projectIntergenerational Deaf Education Outreach, which was launched today in Ha Noi.

Modern technology can save languages as well as destroy them. This is not a fate which appeals to K. David Harrison, of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. But Dr Harrison is an optimist. He believes information technology—something seen by many people as a threat to linguistic diversity—might actually turn out to be its saviour.

Selvom Innu har været i kontakt med europæere i næsten 500 år, er deres sprog i forholdsvis god behold. Især ved Atlanterhavskysten taler alle Innu, og mindre børn er ofte etsprogede. Ud af ca 300 oprindelige sprog i Nordamerika er der måske ti tilbage der stadig læres som førstesprog. Innu er et af dem.

Tyrkisk er ikke på ministeriets liste over godkendte andet fremmedsprog, og derfor skal man søge om dispensation, hvis man ønsker at undervise i det. Og det var netop, hvad gymnasiet gjorde tilbage i efteråret 2011.

Danmarks ”tyrkiske gymnasium” må ikke udbyde tyrkisk som 2. fremmedsprog. Det slår Børne- og Undervisningsministeriet fast i et afslag til gymnasiet. Men tyrkisk er et vigtigt sprog for Danmark, siger ekspert, og R og SF opfordrer nu gymnasiet til at søge igen.

Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world's endangered languages, scientists believe. "What we do with technology is try to connect people," Prof Noori said. "All of it is to keep the language."

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.

AOF-Vestegnen kan som noget helt nyt slå dørene op for kurdiskundervisning. Det bliver et kursus i kurmancî-dialekten og læreren bliver Metin Kara. ”Vi har været så heldige, at få en aftale i stand med AOF, som sætter kurdisk blandt de 21 forskellige sprog første gang i Danmark. Undervisningen vil foregå i AOF lokaler i Ishøj men der er også mulighed for oprette flere hold i andre byer hvis der er interesse.” Man får muligheden for at stifte bekendtskab med sproget og lære de mest brugte vendinger.

Køge: Der bliver klippet og klistret og blandt meget andet talt arabisk og polsk, kinesisk og urdu, thai og persisk, engelsk og tysk - og ind imellem også lidt dansk. Kursisterne på Center for Dansk og Integration i Køge er ved at lave farvestrålende, lærerige collager om deres respektive lande.

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.

Esperanto har aldrig fået sit gennembrud. Engelsk er et mere realistisk bud på et verdenssprog, men det er også en yderst problematisk satsning, mener professor emeritus Robert Phillipson.

 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...

Kollegahjælp er lavet i samarbejde mellem Dansk Metal, Cadpeople og Bifrost med støtte fra Beskæftigelses-ministeriet. Det overordnede formål med informationsmaterialet er at integrere udenlandske kolleger på danske arbejdspladser. På hjemmesiden er fakta om forholdene på det danske arbejdsmarked og interaktive spil, som kan skabe debat om kultur og uskrevne normer på danske arbejdspladser. Der er også ordlister og spil som en hjælp til sprog-indlæring.

Den norske kirke skaber bedre muligheder for det samiske folks deltagelse i kirkelivet.

In der Gemeinde Saterland werden die ersten Schüler zweisprachig auf Deutsch und Saterfriesisch unterrichtet. So soll die Sprache, die nur noch von etwa 2000 Menschen gesprochen wird, am Leben erhalten werden.

Mens debattene om språkbruk og retten til land og vann har gått, har interessen for samiske språkkurs vokst seg stor.

Over hele verden er sprog ved at uddø. Sprogforskere prøver at forhindre det, men i sidste ende er det afhængigt af de, der oprindeligt talte sproget.

Was oft als "Türkendeutsch" verunglimpft wird, ist für Heike Wiese ein eigener Dialekt von Jugendlichen mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund. Die Germanistik-Professorin gilt als "Kiezdeutsch"-Entdeckerin.

Last month the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) posted: “To help HUD staff better communicate with Limited English Proficient (LEP) families about the information they need on housing programs and services, the HUD Language Line, a pilot telephone service will offer live, one-on-one interpretation services in more than 175 languages, 24 hours a day.”

A national referendum on whether Russian should become Latvia’s second official language is set for Feb. 18, the Central Election Commission announced Jan. 3 in Rīga.

VADODARA: The city will turn into a melting pot of languages this weekend. It will host 'Bhasha Vasudha' - a global languages conference - that will be attended by persons representing around 900 languages from across the globe and is touted to be unprecedented in scale

Sjefredaktøren i den samiske avisa Ságat går i dagens lederartikkel hardt ut mot det han kaller for en uverdig tolkestrid i kommunestyret i Porsanger.

Ossetic is an Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. The Ossetic National Corpus is now available online. It contains about 5 million wordforms. All the texts in the corpus have been automatically annotated and contain English translations of most lexemes. The percentage of annotated wordforms is more than 75%. Project information The Ossetic National Corpus is found here. This is the website of a project dedicated to the documentation and description of Ossetic.

Children in Mozambique start school without knowing Portuguese, yet they have to learn everything in Portuguese.

In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik of the University of Connecticut reveals what we can learn from studying languages on the verge of extinction.

An inventory of actions in the field of multilingualism was published in 2008 in parallel with the communication ‘Multilingualism: an asset for Europe and a shared commitment’. This staff working document maps actions undertaken by a number of Commission departments in the field. The 2011 update of this inventory contains a contribution from the Commission departments grouped together in the Inter Service Group on Multilingualism.

The International Court of Justice on has said Greece broke international law in vetoing Macedonia's entry to Nato due to a bilateral name dispute. Ever since Macedonia declared its independence in the aftermath of Yugoslavia's breakup in 1991, Greece has refused to recognise the name "Republic of Macedonia" claiming that it refers to one of its own provinces and is linked to its heritage.

The young Frisian singer Janna Eijer (22) from Jubbega won the eight edition of Liet International in Italian Udine, last Saturday evening (19 November 2011).

I udsendelsen kan du også høre om Taj Khan Kalash, der har været i Danmark for at finde materiale om sit folks historie. Han tilhører den etniske minoritet Kalasha, der bor på grænsen mellem Afghanistan og Pakistan. Et folk der har et sprog, der bliver talt, men ikke skrevet ned. Derfor har de ingen nedskreven historie. Men i 40'erne rejste en dansk forsker, Halfdan Siiger, til Kalasha. Han skrev ned, tog billeder og samlede genstande. Materiale, som Taj Khan Kalash nu kan bruge til at stykke folkets historie sammen, og dermed styrke dets identitet og kamp for minoritetens overlevelse i det urolige område. de nye naboer:

Regeringen har beslutat att bevilja 1 miljon kronor per år under tre år till projektet Finska nu. Projektet drivs av Tandem som är ett projektkontor inom ramen för Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland.

A song contest to raise awareness of Europe's most endangered languages has been held in Italy. Organizers hope they can galvanize support to keep Asturian, Sami, Romansch and other languages alive. DW-WORLD.DE: German and European news, analysis and multimedia from Deutsche Welle - in 30 languages

Bare 23 prosent av innbyggerne i Wales kan språket walisisk, etter flere hundre år med engelsk undertrykking. Nå kjemper walisere for å vinne språket sitt tilbake.

A new report "Inside Primary Schools: A study of teaching and learning in rural India" tracks about 30 000 children over a period of one year. For about 10% of those children the school language was different from the home language. They consistently attend and learn less compared to the 90% for whom the school and home languages were the same.

Globalisation, the linking and shrinking of the world into a global village, has affected indigenous languages badly, as more than 2,400 of the world’s 7,000 languages face extinction. At least 23 of 66 languages in South Asia are endangered due to “linguistic imperialism” existing in this part of the world

Det er bekymrende, at landdagen i Kiel ikke er parat til at give ligestilling til de danske skoler i Sydslesvig. Det er et brud på København-Bonn erklæringerne fra 1955. Så tydeligt udtrykte formanden for det danske Folketing, Mogens Lykketoft (S), sin skuffelse over den slesvig-holstenske regerings besparelser på skoleområdet, der ensidigt går ud over de danske skoler syd for grænsen.

I starten af 1930’erne blev Tjukotka sammen med det øvrige Sibirien lukket for vesterlændinge, også vestlige etnografer. Den eskimoiske befolkning blev således afskåret fra omverden (og deres slægtninge i Alaska) – en isolation som fortsatte indtil slutningen af 1980’erne, hvor Tjukotka i takt med glasnost blev genåbnet for den vestlige verden. De sovjetiske etnografer, som hidtil havde haft monopol på forskning i området, var underlagt streng statslig censur.

Dansk-Kurdisk Kulturcenter lukker den 10.-13. november dørene op for sin første film festival. Over 4 dage kan du opleve autentisk kurdisk filmkunst krydret med musikalske indslag samt ikke mindst en paneldebat om vilkårene for kurdisk filmkunst. Festivalen er dedikeret til ytrings- og pressefriheden, som er et vigtigt omdrejningspunkt i disse tider – for såvel kurderne som det internationale samfund. Derfor er filmen PRESS, som sætter fokus på netop dette emne, festivalens hovedfilm. http://www.nudem.dk/nyheder/kurdish-film-festival-copenhagen-fra-10-13-november-2011

Skolefolk vil undersøge, hvorfor de indvandrergrupper, som vil have mest gavn af modersmålsundervisning, tilsyneladende siger nej til tilbuddet

Translating insults is particularly tricky since they are bound to be controversial and be part of a public figure’s legacy. But what does grosse crisse actually mean in English? He certainly didn’t call her a fat Christ.There was some head scratching among political junkies and journalists, especially after Quebecor’s QMI news agency translated transport minister Mr. MacMillan’s epithet as “fat f---.”

Ifølge forsknings-projekt bliver børn med anden etnisk baggrund bedre til at læse, hvis dansklærere inddrager børnenes modersmål. Ministeren støtter metoden

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.

After years of efforts, a number of rejections and strong debates, Turkey’s first undergraduate-level Kurdish language and literature department is welcoming students for its first class today in the southeastern province Mardin’s Artuklu University.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Most politicians don't need to learn a new language to get elected, but in Taiwan it's not just what you say, it's what you say it in that can be key to getting into power.Campaigning

Antallet af jiddisch-talende personer blev halveret under holocaust. Trods det oplever den gamle blanding af tysk, hebraisk og aramæisk nu en renæssance i og uden for Israel

A new unified sign language dictionary has gone on sale in Zimbabwe to end the confusion sometimes caused by the country's various signing dialects. With the completion of Zimbabwe's sign language dictionary, other countries in the region have now undertaken similar projects.

The businesswoman of the year in Australia finds deafness a scourge and wants to eradicate it. (Deaf people and users of sign language find it appalling, see the comments).

I juni trådte der nye regler i kraft. De betyder, at personer, som har boet længere end syv år i Danmark, skal betale et gebyr, hvis de har brug for tolk hos lægen eller på sygehuset.

Lån en sprogpose på Egedal Bibliotekerne. Poserne er fyldt med bøger, der kan gøre det nemmere for små børn at lære dansk

1. GETTING OUR HOUSE IN ORDER: REFLECTIONS ON LANGUAGE CONTACT, LINGUISTICS, AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC Monday 24 October, kl 14 –16, Aarhus University, room 1325-140 2. WHOLE WORD MORPHOLOGY Tuesday 25 October, kl. 12-14, Aarhus University, room 1412-229 3. REFLECTIONS ON ENGLISH IN INDIA AND INDIAN ENGLISH Wednesday 26 October, kl. 12-14, Aarhus University, room 1410-136

Just how many languages co-exist in India? A new survey is throwing up some startling figures, Culture

Just how many languages co-exist in India? A new survey is throwing up some startling figures, Culture

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.

Fremmedspråklige barn trenger over seks år på å komme opp på samme språklige nivå som innfødte, ifølge spansk forskning.

Euskaldunek erlazio-hizkuntzak erabili zituzten Islandia eta Ternuako biztanleekin moldatzeko. Euskaldunek harreman estuak izan zituzten vikingoen ondorengoekin. Dokumentuek diote 1613an Islandian zeudela jada euskal baleazaleak, baina litekeena da aurretik agertzea kostalde hotz eta urrun hartan. Islandiarrak eta euskaldunak ondo konpondu ziren hasieran, eta euren arteko hizkuntza moduko bat asmatu zuten, hau da, pidgin bat. Harreman horren ondorioz sortutako hitzak eta esaldiak aurretiaz aipatu glosarioan agertzen dira.

A new University of Missouri study shows that Mexican-American students who identify and practice speaking their native language have higher grades than those who are put in English-only environments in their schools.

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).

An online academic journal, Te Kōtihitihi – Ngā Tuhinga Reo Māori, published solely in te reo Māori was launched on Thursday 14 April at the University of Waikato. Topics range from language revitalisation, Māori history, tikanga and mātauranga Māori. It also as an original haka composition performed at Te Matatini.

FOKUS - på dansk som andetsprog for voksne bliver udgivet af Uddannelsesforbundet - sektionen for lærere i dansk som andetsprog. Nr. 55 er på gaden nu.

Mennesker, der kan flere sprog, har nemmere ved at begå sig i den globaliserede verden. Ved at kunne flere sprog, bliver ens udsyn større, og man har adgang til litteratur og andet, der gør ens kulturelle horisont bredere.

Elina Isaksson Kruukka bloggar om sitt liv på meänkieli

El TSJC ha dictado un auto en el que establece un plazo de dos meses para que la Conselleria de Enseñanza de la Generalitat establezca las medidas necesarias para incluir el castellano "como lengua vehicular" en el sistema educativo, ha informado este viernes el tribunal.

A Shanghai high school student's story of being ordered to write an 800-word letter of apology for speaking her local dialect in class has sparked a public outcry about the fast-disappearing dialect.

The basic problem is that we tend to equate sign language to normal language. The people who are trying to impose a uniform regional sign language think that one can simply sign classical Arabic and it becomes a standard language. No. The beauty of sign language is that even if you sign a different dialect or language, the deaf can understand one another … it may be hard initially, but they will connect at some level. There is something organic about this language …

På arbetsförmedlingen ska man som arbetssökande kryssa i vilka språk man kan. Men för samiskan så kan man inte precisera vilken samisk varietet man behärskar.

Föräldrar till barn på Thunmanskolan vill att teckenspråk ska finnas som språkval. Skolan undersöker nu hur stort intresset är för att välja teckenspråk i stället för exempelvis tyska eller spanska.

Lithuania, an EU nation of 3mn, has around 100 schools with education in Polish for an ethnic Polish minority community numbering some 200,000 people. Vilnius also says Lithuania is the only country in the world outside Poland where Poles can receive education in Polish from kindergarten through to university. Northeastern Poland is home to some 15,000 people of Lithuanian origin, according to the website of Lithuanian embassy in Poland.

Few years ago, the so-called Oromia Regional State Government inaugurated the so-called Oromia Radio and TV Organization (ORTVO). Many people expected that the newly launched ‘independent’ radio and TV stations in Adama could contribute much in developing Oromo language and the socio-political relations of the Oromo people.

Human rights activists are abuzz over the implications of the possible removal of the word "indigenous" from official documents relating to some of the poorest and most marginalized ethnic groups in Bangladesh. Talk of eliminating the term comes after a constitutional amendment, passed on 30 June 2011, recognizing “small ethnic groups”, without referring to them as indigenous.

The kids choose what goes in it and that means jokes, stories about hunting and the canteen report. But student Margaret Johnson says her favourite part of the podcast is the segment when they speak in Warlpiri.

The idea is that by creating a 5-10 minute unedited video, and providing basic information about it - essentially just saying what language you think it is in - and then uploading it to the Rosetta Project collection in the Internet Archive, you are helping build a corpus of valuable data for that language. You don't need to be a specialist, and by archiving it you create a resource that others can build on, for many different useful purposes - from language learning and teaching, to linguistic analysis, to building the tools that enable a language to be used with modern technology.

Eine Neuauflage des Bedeutungswörterbuchs der rumänischen Sprache enthält rassistische und antisemitische Definitionen. Jüdische und Roma-Organisationen sind entsetzt.

The New South Wales State Library is hoping to revive a number of lost indigenous languages using the letters and diaries of British naval officers, surveyors and missionaries.

The Alaska Native Language Center in an attempt to preserve indigenous languages has created this striking map of language groups. Some of the languages represented on this map are spoken by fewer than 10 people, others are no longer spoken.

Scholar's version of The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse translated into Tlingit with the help of local elders

Selvom det er første dag i børnehaveklassen, er det ikke en helt ren tavle, man skriver på. Børn møder op med vidt forskellige forudsætninger. Om det er en dreng eller pige, et majoritets- eller minoritetsbarn, så har barnet både sin egen historie og skolens implicitte forventninger at håndtere helt fra skolestart.