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1. Jugant a Definir la Ciència 05/22/2012. El coneixement de la ciència i la tècnica es representa i es transfereix a través de paraules que tenen un significat especialitzat, precís i conc...
2. Nal'ibali - reading for enjoyment initiative South Africa 05/15/2012. Nal'ibali (isiXhosa for "here's the story") is a national reading-­for-­enjoyment initiative to get people in South Africa - children and adults - p...
3. SEMINAR: The Internet and the Promotion of Linguistic Diversity 05/14/2012. The UNESCO Chair on World Language Heritage of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) organizes the next 17th of May 2012, from 3.30 p.m. to 8...
4. Linguistics in the Pub Tuesday 29th May 05/11/2012. Topic: More than just being there? The place of participant observation in linguistic fieldwork Participant observation is the subject of intense disc...
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   Geek Speak: Jared Deck, Sto:lo Shxweli Halq’eméyl em Language Program 05/11/2012. Geek Speak: Jared Deck, Sto:lo Shxweli Halq'eméylem Language Program By Stephen Hui, May 4, 2012 CA Jared Deck is on the front lines of efforts to sa...
6. Chukchansi language to be preserved with grant 05/10/2012. Monday, May 07, 2012 US FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Every language contains a world of unique information. In most Native American communities, language ...
7. Revitalización del kichwa en Imbabura 05/08/2012. En el proceso de revitalización lingüística del kichwa en Imbabura, KICHWA SISARIY, se han realizado las siguientes actividades desde noviembre de ...
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   Canada Instates Language Tests for Some Immigrants 04/16/2012. Kenney says measures will benefit newcomers' social mobility
9. Assistant Professor: Department of Pan African Studies 04/02/2012. Assistant Professor California State University, Northridge Department of Pan African Studies Northridge, CA Date Posted: Feb. 21, 2012 http://www.Aca...
10. Instructors -- English As a Second Language at American University of the Middle East 04/02/2012. Instructors -- English As a Second Language American University of the Middle East English As a Second Language (EPP) Program Al Kuwait, Al Ahmadi, Ku...
11. APRIL 1-7, 2012 PROCLAIMED HERITAGE LANGUAGE AWARENESS WEEK 03/29/2012. March 27, 2012 Tuesday AM USA (SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Ketchikan Indian Community Tribal Council is proclaiming April 1-7, 2012 Heritage Language...
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    Amazing ‘talking’ dictionary project helps preserve Ojibwe language 03/29/2012. By Cynthia Boyd | 08:29 am USA There are many pathways to knowledge, including popular fiction. So I'll admit unabashedly that my enticing introductio...
13. Project officer: AIATSIS Centre for Australian Languages 03/29/2012. Project officer One APS...Thousands of opportunities AIATSIS is Australia's premier national institution for Australian Indigenous studies. It has res...
14. Demonstrations for regional language rights in the French territories on March 31st 03/23/2012. Demonstrations for regional language rights in the French territories organised by EBLUL-France, the Association des Rencontres inter-régionales des ...
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    How Do You Say ‘Disagreement’ in Pirahã? 03/22/2012. By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Published: March 21, 2012 In his 2008 memoir, "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes," the linguist Dan Everett recalled the night memb...
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    Why Bilinguals Are Smarter 03/19/2012. By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE Published: March 17, 2012 SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly glob...
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    Santorum stands by English condition for Puerto Rico statehood 03/19/2012. Posted by CNN Political Unit (CNN) - Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Thursday defended a condition he said Puerto Rico must meet to be eligible ...
18. UNESCO and Maaya team up for new book on multilingualism in cyberspace 03/15/2012. UNESCO and Maaya have published a collection of papers related to their approach to language diversity on the internet. It is freely downloadable from...
19. U.S. Senate Passes Bill to Protect Alaska Native Languages 03/15/2012. By Office of Senator Donald Olson 6 hours 2 minutes ago Bill establishes advisory council to preserve and restore Alaska's indigenous languages JUNEAU...
20. Aer Lingus stops making holders of suspicious Greek passports take language tests 03/15/2012. By Associated Press, Published: March 13 DUBLIN - An Irish airline apologized Tuesday for forcing a Greek woman living in Ireland to complete a langua...
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    Adventures of a Teenage Polyglot 03/12/2012. SOME people pick up a little Hebrew before their bar mitzvahs, or learn Spanish from their mothers, or can speak some Japanese from a semester abroad.
22. Montana State Prison settles lawsuit over English-only policy 03/12/2012. By MATT GOURAS Associated Press | Posted: Friday, March 9, 2012 8:30 pm | 1 Comment HELENA - Montana prison officials said Friday they will start tran...
23. An Indigenous Language With Unique Staying Power 03/12/2012. The group Invidente plays typical Guaraní music on a Guaraní-language television show. The language is spoken by an estimated 90 percent of Paraguayans.
24. Language Policy and Planning Syllabus, Spring 2012 at the University of Hawai’i 03/12/2012. Department of Second Language Studies SLS 760 Language Policy and Planning Spring 2012 W, 1500-1750, MOORE 118 Instructor: Kathryn A. Davis Office: Mo...
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    Una sentència salomònica 03/12/2012. El TSJC, arrogant-se d'unes funcions que no té, ha deliberat sobre la legalitat del model lingüístic de l'escola catalana i ha emès una sentència...
26. Norway’s indigenous Sami people turn to Israel for help in reviving old tribal language 03/07/2012. By Associated Press, JERUSALEM - Norway's Sami people, an indigenous community with roots as reindeer herders in the northern reaches of Scandinavia a...
27. Comment on the article “English is Global, so why learn Arabic?” (NYT, 30th January 2012) 02/01/2012. When Summers (2012) told us as part of "what [we] (really) need to know" that "English's emergence as the global language, along with the rapid progre...
28. Blog Report on Global Languages Meet 01/18/2012. RNLD's report on the Global Languages Meet in India and the international launch of the Consortium on Training in Language Documentation and Conservat...
29. High-tech bid to save ancient Top End language 01/18/2012. By Jano Gibson Updated January 17, 2012 12:36:57 AUS Researchers are developing a mobile phone application in an effort to help save an ancient Aborig...
30. Fraser Institute: Federal and Provincial Bilingualism Requirements Cost Canadian Taxpayers $2.4 Billion Annually; Provinces Spend $900 Million to Provide Dual-Language Services 01/18/2012. MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Jan 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Canada's 10 provinces spend nearly $900 million annually providing bilingual government serv...
31. For iPhone/iPad users: unicode app free today and tomorrow 01/11/2012. I think some of you might be interested in downloading the iPhone/iPad app Unicode Maps, which is free as a special promotion for today and tomorrow o...
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    10 Languages on the Verge of Extinction 01/09/2012. by Martha Barksdale Of the more than 6,700 languages spoken in the world today, half are at risk of isappearing by the end of this century [source: UN...
33. Siraya grammar and lexicon 12/19/2011. A new grammar and lexicon of #Siraya language of Taiwan has been published. Great news for those revitalising Siraya http://www.degruyter.de/cont/imp/...
34. Hiring in the Humanities Is Expected to Increase, MLA Says 12/19/2011. The Chronicle of Higher Education November 30, 2011, 11:10 am The Modern Language Association projects that job seekers in the humanities will have mo...
35. Crowdsourcing the Development of Underserved Language Resources 12/16/2011. (http://www.rhok.org/problems/crowdsourcing-development-underserved-language-resources) The provision of affordable, accessible and sustainable data, ...
36. Recherches sur le Bilinguisme et le Multilinguisme 12/16/2011. Date: 08-May-2012 - 08-May-2012 Location: Montreal, Canada Contact Person: Phaedra Royle Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisitio...
37. Four or more languages for all - language policy challenges of the future. 12/12/2011. The keynote lectures and power point presentations from the conference are now available on the homepage of the conference - http://www.socdev.fo/page...
38. 10th annual elders gathering promotes aboriginal teachings 12/12/2011. 2011 event focuses on healthy relationships Shuja Safavi 11:33 am Canada Aboriginal community leaders and elders were brought together at the 10th ann...
39. National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution 11/30/2011. The NAA is pleased to announce a new opportunity to make digital copies of historic manuscripts more widely available thanks to a grant from Save Amer...
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    Technology Designs Ethonomics Leadership Meet Google’s Voice Hunter On A Quest For 300 Languages 11/30/2011. Google wants Voice Search to master the Tower of Babel. So Linne Ha travels the world, gathering the language samples used to train it.
41. Montreal schools ban children from speaking English, even in the playground 11/30/2011. By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:42 AM on 27th November 2011 The largest school board in Quebec, Cananda, is set to make playgrounds, hallways...
42. NZ linguist using grant to dissect Vanuatu indigenous languages 11/14/2011. Posted at 04:45 on 11 November, 2011 UTC A New Zealand university lecturer is using an almost 200-thousand US dollar, three-year Marsden Fund grant to...
43. Arts & More: Saving the Potawatomi language and "The Michigan Poem" 11/09/2011. NPR's program about efforts in Southwest Michigan to save the Potawatomi language. Lorraine Caron & Nancy Camden Kalamazoo, MI November 3, 2011 WMUK A...
44. Launch of Our Mother Tongues website 11/09/2011. Discover America´s First languages
45. La llei de llengües és el problema prioritari del PP d’Aragó 11/07/2011. 31 octubre 31UTC 2011 Dos notícies apunten que el PP d'Aragó prioritzarà una línia de combat identitària. Possiblement per a intentar desviar el ...
46. ELL Programs Get Overhaul in New York and Los Angeles 11/02/2011. Acknowledging that they are not meeting the needs of hundreds of thousands of students learning to speak English, the nation's two largest school syst...
47. Demand Grows for Squad-level Linguist Program 11/02/2011. Last year, 74 soldiers at Fort Campbell, Ky., became the first to participate in a new program that provides short-term, intensive language and cultur...
48. Indigenous Focus: Indigenous Languages Being Strengthened Throughout Chile 11/02/2011. October 19, 2011 | Posted by: Laura Seelau & Ryan Seelau At the beginning of October, CONADI (the Chilean government's department for Indigenous devel...
49. Don makes case for indigenous languages 11/02/2011. Oct 26, 2011 at 4:48 PM WAT By Musa Odoshimokhe AFRICA A teacher at the Osun State University, Osogbo, Prof. Siyan Oyeweso, has expressed concerned ov...
50. Grant allows Sealaska Heritage to digitize historic recordings 10/26/2011. Alaska Dispatch | Oct 19, 2011 USA According to a press release, Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), a regional nonprofit representing the Tlingit, Hai...
51. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities 10/26/2011. The General Assembly,   Reaffirming that one of the main purposes of the United Nations, as proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, is to ac...
52. Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet 10/26/2011. The Language Observatory Project (LOP), the World Network for Linguistic Diversity and UNESCO have been working since 2002 to develop scientific metho...
53. El diputat de cultura presenta altaveu 10/24/2011. Al voltant de 60 regidors, tècnics i responsables culturals municipals de 40 ajuntaments de la província d'Alacant s'han reunit avui, 21 d'octubre, ...
54. Google considera el català una de les 10 llengües més actives del món 10/24/2011. Representants de l'empresa americana ressalten l'alt nivell de presència de l'idioma en relació al seu nombre de parlants
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    National award for Inuvialuktun teacher 10/19/2011. Immersion kindergarten class receives recognition after 20 years
56. U46 trial resumes, claims district pushed English Language Learners out 10/19/2011. By Emily McFarlan (Necessites javascript per veure aquest correu-e) October 17, 2011 8:20PM CHICAGO - Dionnes Rivera, then director of bilingual education in School Distri...
57. Govt to monitor implementation of language policy 10/17/2011. Friday, 14 October 2011 09:50 The National Languages and Social Integration Ministry will shortly implement a monitoring system to check whether publi...
58. Saving Language in North West Territory 07/19/2011. Updated July 12, 2011 13:03:00 Australia A range of children's books is helping save Indigenous languages. Access video media link below: http://www.a...
59. Aboriginal Languages Institute Returns to North West Territory 07/19/2011. by: Government of the Northwest Territories | Jul 14th, 2011 Monday marked the start of the second annual NWT Aboriginal Languages Summer Institute. A...
60. EUNoM Symposium Koper - Managing multilingual and multiethnic societies and institutions 07/04/2011. Multilingual policy in European contact areas, Managing linguistic diversity at work, and Languages and identity were the themes addressed at the thir...
61. Follow up of the MERCATOR expert seminar 07/04/2011. Budapest, 23-24th March, 2011 In the second part of the expert seminar there were country reports/summaries by invited experts and partners on nationa...
62. More than 30 experts to participate in Mercator Conference in Barcelona 07/04/2011. More than 30 experts on linguistic diversity and language legislation have confirmed their attendance to the Mercator Conference in Barcelona, to be h...
63. 
    New Valencian government to eliminate education systems with Catalan as teaching language 07/04/2011. The Spanish conservative-led Government of the Valencian Country has decided to eliminate the possibility of studying through the medium of Valencian ...
64. 
    FUEN – Congress with a clear message: the minorities in Europe want to be listened to 07/04/2011. Eisenstadt Declaration on the Situation of the Roma adopted / Urgent appeal to the Federal Government in Vienna Around 180 guests from more than 20 Eu...
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    Voices of Europe in Fryslân 07/04/2011. Voices of Europe is a singing week for young people from different minority language regions in Europe. FYK (youth organization Frisian International ...
66. RNLD awarded 3 year MILR grant 07/04/2011. On 23 June 2011, Australia's Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean MP, announced $14.4 million in funding for Indigenous language programs across Austral...
67. California Language Archive clicks with multiple resources 07/01/2011. By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | June 20, 2011 USA BERKELEY - As of today (Monday, June 20), much of the University of California, Berkeley's vas...
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    Squamish Nation publishes dictionary to keep their language alive 07/01/2011. BY KEVIN GRIFFIN, VANCOUVER SUN JUNE 17, 2011 Canada The Squamish Nation has published for the first time in its history a dictionary designed to help...
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    Canada's Inuit leaders unveil education strategy 07/01/2011. Canadian Inuit leaders have issued a national education strategy that aims to raise graduation rates among young Inuit, only a quarter of whom finish ...
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    Ottawa to back recommendation for bilingual Inuit schools 06/28/2011. The Canadian Press Date: Monday Jun. 13, 2011 6:49 PM ET Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan will back a report calling for Inuit children...
71. Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies 06/20/2011. At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them a...
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    Micro-blogging in a mother tongue on Twitter 06/20/2011. Modern technology is often blamed for homogenising our ever-shrinking world, particularly when it comes to traditional local cultures and customs.
73. First Soillse Residential Conference: “Maintaining and Revitalising Minority Languages in their ‘Heartlands’” 06/20/2011. SABHAL MÒR OSTAIG UHI, Sleat, the Isle of Skye, Scotland, 31 August-3 September 2011 Soillse is a 5-year, £5.29 million research project involving t...
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    Conference "Early foreign language learning" 06/20/2011. Policy, science and practice in the field of early foreign language learning were brought together at the conference "Early foreign language learning"...
75. Fifth European Expert Seminar: “Cultural Education and Civil Society: How can Languages contribute?” 06/20/2011. Together with the Basque Autonomous Community the Mercator Research Centre of the Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy) organised the fifth European Expert...
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    After 90 Years, a Dictionary of an Ancient World 06/10/2011. Ninety years in the making, the 21-volume dictionary of the language of ancient Mesopotamia and its Babylonian and Assyrian dialects, unspoken for 2,0...
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    Awakening the Narungga language 06/10/2011. TUESDAY, 07 JUNE 2011 15:37 Journalist: Rhiannon Koch AUS The Narungga language is awakening from its slumber and 16 teachers and community members we...
78. Navajo: a tongue for the young 06/10/2011. By Alysa Landry The Daily Times Posted: 06/04/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT USA FARMINGTON - Colleagues of Margaret Speas are accustomed to her rattling off st...
79. Terralingua collaboration with the Saanich People to launch oral literature project 06/10/2011. With support from Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research, this year Terralingua is starting a new project to enable the recording and interg...
80. Eyak language workshops coming to Anchorage 06/10/2011. The first endangered Alaska language to lose its last native-born speaker is about to get a second chance, a news release says. A series of workshops ...
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    Preserving the Navajo Language, One Interpreter at a Time 06/10/2011. A group of 33 students were competively selected to earn free certification from the UA’s Navajo Interpreter Training Institute to gain eligibility to serve as interpreters in New Mexico and Arizona state courts.
82. The European Language Council: Its Language Policy, the Thematic Network Projects and Its Contribution to Teacher Education. 06/06/2011. Introduction. The European Language Council/Conseil européen pour les langues (ELC/CEL) is an organisation of universities, other institutes of highe...
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    La Academia de la Lengua Aragonesa empieza a tomar cuerpo con la elección de sus miembros | Heraldo.es 06/06/2011. La lista es discutida por la ausencia de algunas figuras y por el reparto de influencia entre las distintas corrientes. La Academia de la Lengua Arago...
84. XlingPaper for writing linguistic documents 06/06/2011.   XLingPaper is a way to author and archive linguistic papers or books using XML. This makes it possible to mark-up one's document in a way that it c...
85. 
    Traces of Lost Language and Decimal Number System Discovered in Peru 06/06/2011. Excavations at a Colonial Period site on the North Coast of Peru have revealed the first traces of a lost language. Sometime in the early 17th century...
86. 
    Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Navajo Language Software 06/06/2011. Language-Learning Provider Helps Promote Native American Language Use among Younger Generations USA
87. Speaking one's mother tongue is vital 06/06/2011. And this is why you've got people like Noel Pearson saying that Aboriginal people, Aboriginal kids, need the very best general Australian academic education, but they also need a decent education in their own high culture. Now, I think this is a very lofty goal that Noel has put forward, but if you look at people like Alison Anderson and Bess Price, they are fluent in many Aboriginal languages. They are people of law and culture and language, but they are also extremely capable of operating at the very top of the general Australian community. Now, that's got to be the aspiration that we have for Aboriginal people. - Tony Abbott to Chris Uhlmann, ABC1's 7.30, April 28
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    Towards UNESCO guidelines on language policies 24-05-2011 (Paris) 06/03/2011. UNESCO organizes a joint expert group meeting, entitled "Towards UNESCO Guidelines on Language Policies: a Tool for Language Assessment and Planning",...
89. Amazon Watch supports Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon 05/30/2011. In the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Amazon Watch is working directly with indigenous communities to build local capacity and ...
90. 
    Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says 05/30/2011. By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers. The Amondawa lacks the ...
91. UT Arlington linguist wins NSF grant to breathe new life into endangered Native American languages 05/30/2011. 25 May, 2011 21:45 CET ARLINGTON - A University of Texas at Arlington linguist is working to save disappearing languages in Native American communitie...
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    Hawaiian Educators Spread Immersion Message in Washington 05/30/2011. May 26th, 2011 By Wendy Osher Several Native Hawaiian educators traveled to Washington today to offer testimony on culture-based education. The witnes...
93. Indian Affairs Committee holds hearing on Native language & culture-based education 05/30/2011. by: USA Senator Daniel Kahikina Akaka | May 26th, 2011 Canada WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), Chairman of the Senate Commi...
94. Activists demand dual language policy 05/23/2011. Minister promises to implement decades-old constitutional provision
95. 
    Lapsing languages offer different view of world 05/16/2011. By Jack Knox, Times Colonist April 30, 2011 Back when he was gillnetting salmon around Nootka Sound, Alban Michael had a handy way to stop the whole w...
96. 
    Are dying languages worth saving? 05/02/2011. Why should endangered languages be saved? Delegates at the Trinity College Carmarthen conference explain - using nine different languages Language exp...
97. Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter 05/02/2011. BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER Tweets in Basque? Tweets in Polynesian? Tweets in Navajo? An ambitious new project is collecting tweets from indigenous languages ...
98. More about the Alutiiq Language Program 05/02/2011. BY ELISABETH DUNHAM The nationally funded Alutiiq Language Program on Kodiak Island began documenting the area's native language about four years ago....
99. LSA passes resolution on Native American Language Revitalization 05/02/2011. The Linguistic Society of America has passed a resolution urging President Obama to sign the Executive Order on Native American Language Revitalizatio...
100. Google includes Cherokee option 04/29/2011. Tuesday, April 5, 2011 A traditional Native American language recently met the technological cutting edge when the search engine Google allowed users ...
101. 
     Preserving the Cherokee language with children’s books 04/29/2011. Thursday, 31 March 2011 Written by Davin Eldridge - Staff Writer Local artists contribute their skills to illustrate traditional children's stories Th...
102. 
     Passion for preservation: Professor records dying language 04/29/2011. 08:19 AM CDT on Friday, March 25, 2011 By Alyssa Scavetta / For the Denton Record-Chronicle Some of her colleagues think of Dr. Sadaf Munshi as a mode...
103. 
     Languages Grew From a Seed in Africa, Study Says 04/29/2011. By NICHOLAS WADE Published: April 14, 2011 A researcher analyzing the sounds in languages spoken around the world has detected an ancient signal that ...
104. 
     Jueces y traductores mayas con la nueva ley indígena 04/15/2011. Por unanimidad, el Congreso de Yucatán aprobó la Ley para la Protección de los Derechos de la Comunidad que creará un nuevo marco jurídico para garantizar el respeto a ese sector de la población.
105. STEPV i Escola Valenciana demanen l'extensió de l'ensenyament en valencià 04/11/2011. Les dues entitats posen en comú els seus últims estudis
106. Reportaje: dos modelos de plurilingüismo: Entre la continuidad y la ocurrencia 04/11/2011. Escola Valenciana presenta un modelo para aprender inglés desde infantil a partir de programas bilingües, mientras el Consell apuesta por materias sueltas
107. Educación planea gastar 730.000 euros en una nueva rotulación de los centros escolares 04/11/2011. La decisión de Font de Mora afectará a los más de 2.000 colegios públicos y concertados, aunque en éstos será opcional
108. 
     MELT Newsletter: European minority language regions cooperation project 04/01/2011. Bringing up young children in a bi- or multilingual way in theory and practice, that is what the MELT project is about. MELT stands for Multilingual E...
109. 
     Release of RML2future podcasts 04/01/2011. "It's never too late...monolingualism is easy to cure!" Two podcasts promoting multilingualism were released during the RML2future conference in Aaben...
110. 2nd RML2future conference held in Aabenraa 04/01/2011. Adult education for regional and minority languages was the topic of the 2nd regional conference of the network RML2future in Aabenraa (Denmark) on 7-...
111. Mercator’s Expert Meeting “More languages, more opportunities” Rotterdam 04/01/2011. The project "More languages, more opportunities: A Papiamentu - Dutch language development project" is active in two parts of the city of Rotterdam, I...
112. Rebuilding Languages 04/01/2011. 17 March 2011 Schools in Western NSW are helping rebuild the Yuwalaraay/Gamilaraay language. Yaama again to the Living Black audience. As mentioned in...
113. 
     Somersaults – review 03/28/2011. What do you have left when you strip away your home, your personal possessions and your loved ones? For some, it might be a sense of selfhood, spiritu...
114. Non-dominant standards of pluricentric languages: Getting the picture 03/28/2011. Symposium in memory of Professor Michael Clyne Graz, Austria 11-13 July 2011 Call for papers The study of pluricentric languages, to which Michael Cly...
115. Wampanoags Regain Their Voice 03/28/2011. No one had spoken the Native American Wampanoag language for more than 150 years. One woman changed all that.
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     Perder una lengua es más grave que perder historia 03/25/2011. José Bada es el primer presidente del Consejo Superior de Lenguas de Aragón, el órgano que se encargará de constituir las academias del catalán y...
117. 
     Languages of the World Forum in Toulouse 03/21/2011. Implanté au cœur de la ville de Toulouse, le Carrefour Culturel Arnaud Bernard allie une politique d'animation populaire par et pour le quartier, ma...
118. March: Basque Advisory Council prepares new language policy 03/21/2011. The Basque Advisory Council has reviewed the old General Plan for the Promotion and Use of Basque, and has agreed the basis for language policy in the...
119. Pre-education schools language policy: Call for government language policy to help Deracia 03/21/2011. 17 March 2011 CALL FOR GOVERNMENT LANGUAGE POLICY TO HELP DERACIALISE SOUTH AFRICA AND IMPROVE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT The Molteno Institute for Language a...
120. Fluent in Cherokee, man hopes app wil help keep language alive 03/18/2011. Harry Oohsawee hopes the latest technology will offer a new way to prevent the Cherokee language from dying off.
121. 
     The Language Police: Bills would enact new restrictions on speech 03/18/2011. State Question 751 passed last fall with 75 percent of voters agreeing to amend the state constitution to make English Oklahoma's official language. T...
122. International Malay Language Seminar Passes Seven Resolutions 03/18/2011. March 16, 2011 22:04 PM KUALA TERENGGANU, March 16 (Bernama) -- The 2011 International Seminar on Malay Language Education, which ended Wednesday, pas...
123. Half of living languages face extinction 03/14/2011. A new research project is documenting thousands of endangered languages – before we lose them forever
124. 
     Thirteen languages in Germany are struggling to survive, UNESCO warns 03/14/2011. Germany's regional dialects and languages have fewer and fewer speakers, according to UNESCO. On Thursday they released a list of 13 languages spoken in Germany that they say are at risk of disappearing.
125. Bangladeshis in Abu Dhabi observe Martyrs' Day and International Mother Language Day 03/14/2011. The day is observed to pay tributes to the martyrs of the language movement, who laid down their lives to establish Bangla as the state language on February 21, 1952.
126. Vanishing Voices on Youtube 03/11/2011. National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project has launched a youtube channel (www.youtube.com/enduringvoices). Language clips, stories, songs and wisd...
127. If you can write English, you can speak it: UPSC 02/21/2011. MUMBAI: If you can write in English, you are expected to talk in English, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) told an Indian Administrative Ser...
128. College of Hawaiian Language marks new chapter with historic groundbreaking 02/18/2011. University of Hawai'i at Hilo Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642 Director, Media Relations, University Relations Posted: Feb. 15, 2011 A b...
129. Silent protest over FG Irish language policy 02/18/2011. STUDENTS will gather outside the Dáil today for a "silent protest" against Fine Gael's policy on the Irish language. Party leader Enda Kenny last week reiterated his vow to abolish Irish as a compulsory subject at Leaving Certificate level if returned to power.
130. Royal Assent for official status of Welsh language 02/18/2011. POWERS confirming the official status of Welsh received Royal Assent yesterday.
131. Soap operas bring linguistic democracy to South Africa 02/18/2011. In South Africa, soap operas have helped eliminate the linguistic boundaries between English and the 11 other languages adopted at the end of apartheid.
132. Last fluent speaker of Nakota passes away 02/14/2011. Fred Spyglass, a Nakota Elder from Saskatchewan, was the last fluent speaker within his immediate family. His funeral was held today at Mosquito First...
133. Professor Alan Durston receives SSHRC’s Aurora Prize for research on indigenous language 02/14/2011. Friday, February 11th, 2011. Although Quechua dates back to the time of the Incas and is spoken by millions in Peru, its success as a written language...
134. Irish language policy document for Election 2011 02/14/2011. An Chomhdháil has published a new policy document outlining the commitments sought by the Irish language and Gaeltacht communities in the forthcoming...
135. Distinct Mix Holds On in a Corner of China 02/14/2011. Long before words like “multiculturalism” and “fusion cuisine” entered the modern lexicon, Aida de Jesus and her forebears were mashing up food, language and DNA from far-flung corners of the globe. A 95-year-old chef whose ancestry is drawn from Goa, Malacca and other former outposts of the Portuguese empire, Senhora de Jesus, as she prefers to be called, grew up celebrating Christmas and Chinese New Year with meals that relied on Portuguese sausage, bok choy and galinha cafreal, a chicken dish with an African pedigree. She spoke Portuguese at school, Cantonese on the street and a lively creole known as Patuá with “the girls.”
136. District offers first Navajo immersion program 02/11/2011. SHIPROCK - The 19 students who every day wander into room E-1 at Eva B. Stokely Elementary School enter a different world. Here, the kindergartners ar...
137. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Language Policy 02/11/2011. Switzerland lives linguistic diversity and benefits from it. Meanwhile English has become the dominant language in science and academia. The Swiss res...
138. Caribbean Linguists sign off Language Rights and Policy Charter 02/11/2011. KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Representatives of 15 Caribbean countries plus the United States, United Kingdom and France have signed off on the Charter fo...
139. Lexicographer basks in Sammelana glory in Bangalore 02/11/2011. It was the best Sammelana that I have seen in all my life, said 97-year-old president of the 77th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana, as the curtains came down on the three-day mega event.
140. Utusan praises Kuan Yew for strict language policy 02/11/2011. Utusan Malaysia praised Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew today for clamping down on vernacular education system while blaming the island republic's founding father for the race relation problems in Malaysia.
141. Georgia Bolsters English in an Attempt to Doff the Lingering Russian Influence. 02/04/2011. Teachers from the United States and Canada are being recruited to move to Georgia to help spur a linguistic revolution that would make English the dom...
142. Georgia Offers Russian-Language Alternative To Kremlin TV 01/31/2011. Russian-speakers in the Caucasus, Europe, Russia, and beyond now have a new place to turn for news. The Georgia-based Kanal PIK ("Pervy Informatsionny...
143. Teacher of Two Worlds by Dannae Synot 12/15/2010. Here is an abstract from the article: AN Aboriginal woman’s ability to walk in both black and white worlds has given her the power and knowledge to ...
144. PULIIMA 2011, National Indigenous Languages Technology Forum 12/15/2010. The conference will comprise of the following: -Tuesday 10th May 6pm evening pre-conference get together (for those that arrive early) -Wednesday 11th...
145. The Pakistan Discussion 12/14/2010. For a while now the Language Policy and Planning list has been showing a variety of articles and discussions about Pakistan, and its language policies...
146. Bretons & France 12/14/2010. The old langauge of Britanny in France has a had a rough history with the French state since the Revolution, and following the discrimination after Wo...
147. World Oral Literature Project, University of Cambridge 12/13/2010. Endangered Language Database
148. 
     "Songs of the Colorado" by Daniel Golding 12/09/2010. Have you heard of the Native American song cycles, cycles that last from sunset to sunrise some containing about 300 songs in one cycle? These songs, ...
149. 
     Cornish Language No Longer “Extinct” 12/09/2010. With about 300 fluent speakers, Cornish has now been moved from “extinct” to the “critically endangered” category. For the BBC news article cl...
150. Facebook & Social Networks: Revitalization 12/03/2010. Following the recent discussions on the Indigenous Languages and Techology [ILAT] list, it is evident that facebook, as part of "language revitalisati...
151. UCLG Summit in Mexico declares: "Culture is the Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development" 12/03/2010. A message from the UCLG World Secretariat
152. Indigenous Languages Officially Recognized In Panama 12/02/2010. The Panamian authorities have officially recognised the indigenous languages of Panama. This they claim will mean that all the langauges of the Ngäbe...
153. Language Policy and Localisation in Pakistan: Proposal for a Paradigmatic Shift 12/02/2010. An essay by Tariq Rahman
154. Workshop for International Mother Language Day- February 25, 2011 12/02/2010. Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT) will celebrate International Mother Language Day (February 21) with various events. On February...
155. "...kangaroos, turtles, whales, wombats..." 12/01/2010. While this isn’t news as much as it is a call for awareness, it is still important to give voices to the efforts forever trying to counteract the in...
156. German may become an elective language in Slovakia 11/30/2010. This change in policy would make English the only compulsory foreign language in schools. “The Slovak cabinet appears in favor of the plans; if they...
157. Multiculturalism in Austria 11/29/2010. A look at the diverse linguistic collection of books in the Viennese Public Library, with literary works in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, Turkish...
158. European Parliament urges China to Respect the Native Language of the Tibetan People. 11/29/2010. Since the proposition of the new language policy by the Chinese Government regarding their education policy, the EP has passed a resolution condemning...
159. Recording & Imaging Clicks 11/26/2010. Thanks to the advancement and the availability of ultrasound technology, linguists are now able to study and record some of the fastest and most uniqu...
160. 2nd International Conference On Language Documentation & Conservation: Strategies For Moving Forward- University of Hawaii 11/25/2010. February 11-13, 2011
161. Foreign Language for Foreign Policy? By Russell A. Berman 11/25/2010. Berman discusses the influence of political priorities in shaping foreign language learning in the US. The article specifically discusses Richard Haas...
162. New Language Policy for The Fiji National University 11/24/2010. The Vice Chancellor of Fiji National University, Dr. Ganesh Chand has announced that from next year, teachers will not be allowed to graduate until th...
163. The Economist interviews K. David Harrison 11/24/2010. Seven Questions for K. David Harrison Following his achievements in language documenting, his Emmy nominated film “The Linguists” and now a new bo...
164. First Taiwanese Film in Indigenous Language 11/22/2010. Director Chen Wen-pin’s movie, Everlasting Moments, written entirely in the Atayal language was shown at Germany’s Mannheim-Heidelberg film festiv...
165. Rwanda’s Move from French to English 11/22/2010. There are three official languages in Rwanda; English, French and Rwanda. Historically Rwanda as an ex colony of Belgium, had used French as an offici...
166. Te reo Maori in New Zealand 11/22/2010. King’s College in Auckland, New Zealand has become the first school to make te reo Maori compulsory in its curriculum. The subject will be compulsor...
167. The Multilingual Parental Guide: The Myths 11/18/2010. Here is an article concentrated on the myths surrounding multilingual parenting. An interesting look at the subject for all the multilingual families ...
168. Projects Aimed at Documenting and Preserving Endangered Languages 11/17/2010. The Links section of the Linguapax website contains many programs and websites showcasing their projects and plans along with a sea of information abo...
169. A new language has been brought to light in Northeastern India 11/17/2010. Koro is the language spoken at the foothills of the Himalayas spoken by tribes living in the Northeastern state of India. The researchers came across ...
170. Lakota Language Teaching and Learning Curriculum in the US 11/17/2010. The Lakota language spoken in the Great Plains in the US, has become the first language to achieve the status of a Two Year degree major available to ...
171. New Language Policy Threatens Tertiary Education Access in Tibet 11/16/2010. The new policy which will have Chinese as the main teaching language in schools by 2015 may result in grave socio-economic consequences among the Tibe...
172. 2010 Congress of the World Wide Forum on Education and Culture (Rome, Italy) 11/16/2010. “Uniting Cultures Through Education: Case Studies and Classroom Curriculum” will be this years theme. The meeting will run for three days, 1-3 Dec...
173. The Annual Australian and New Zealand Race Relations Roundtable 11/15/2010. Commisioners have specifically called for “action on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the protection of Indigenous languages, th...
174. “the suspects offered defense in an incomprehensible language” 11/15/2010. The problems of injustice and lack of freedom continue to plague the Turkish-Kurdish relations as tensions seem to be rising among both sides. The par...
175. Limiting bilingual education results in declining attendance in the schools of the Northern Territory in Australia. 11/11/2010. Prof. Mick Dodson claims that the introduction of educational policies that do not encorporate bilingualism in the Northern Territory have caused a "m...
176. What language do they speak in New York? 11/11/2010. English? Sure. In addition however, there may be almost 700 other languages in New York City alone. This observation comes at a time when endangered l...
177. The Mankurts 11/11/2010. This interview with Dr. David Harrison of Swathmore College discusses the problem of Linguicide as a prerequisite for denationalisation and mankurtisa...
178. The Translation before the Original 11/10/2010. Canadian Playright Tomson Highway's two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing are released in Cree. A great example of writer...
179. How to revive a language after a century of dormancy? 11/10/2010. The federally funded YAWENDA PROJECT to revive the Huron-Wendat Language in Canada may have just found a way....
180. Kurdish and Ladino Language’s Status in Turkey 11/10/2010. The suppression of the Kurdish language in Turkey is a long known problem that has plagued the Kurdish community of Turkey for decades.

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