[EDLING:879] CFP: Language Preservation

[Tamara Warhol]

Call for Submissions (please forward to interested parties):

UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation

In accordance with its mission to protect and promote cultural diversity, and 
in particular to encourage the safeguarding of endangered languages as an 
essential part of the living heritage of humanity, UNESCO calls for 
submissions to its online 'Register of Good Practices in Language 
Preservation' under the Endangered Languages Programme. We are interested in 
collecting reports on both ongoing and past projects.


PURPOSE:

The purpose of this Register is to identify and collect reports concerning 
efforts in language preservation, as a means to facilitate the dissemination 
of Good Practice knowledge, expertise and experience in this area, and thus to 
encourage future application and adaptation worldwide. To this end, we ask 
speaker communities, governmental and non-governmental organisations, and 
related experts to share their good experiences in the preservation, 
revitalisation and promotion of endangered languages with a wider public, via 
our Good Practices database.
Registry in this database is also meant to ensure the visibility, recognition, 
and accessibility of the projects entered (the UNESCO portal recording over 10 
million hits on average every month).


SUBMISSIONS:

We solicit the submission of case reports on any form of community-based 
projects concerning language preservation, 
- e.g. reports on local/ regional projects in education, revitalisation, 
standardisation, community development, awareness raising, capacity building, 
documentation, use of new technologies, etc.
(Note: These can be projects that do not focus on language exclusively but 
include language as one aspect among their concerns)

For submission, please use the form and the guidelines available on the 
Register website of the UNESCO Endangered Languages Programme:

http://www.unesco.org/culture/endangeredlanguages/goodpractices

Submissions will be reviewed by UNESCO experts prior to web publication to 
ensure consistency.
 
Your participation is greatly appreciated – it helps establish a valuable 
service of knowledge transfer in language preservation, for future efforts and 
projects worldwide that safeguard language diversity as an important aspect of 
our living heritage.

Best regards,

The Endangered Languages Programme Team

Intangible Heritage Section
UNESCO
1 rue Miollis, F-75015 Paris, France
Fax: +33.1.45.68.57.52
E mail: ling.diversity at unesco.org


-- 
Tamara Warhol
PhD Student
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 
warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu