<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><I>A current Georgetown student is organizing this at UNESCO. They are very organized and quite eager to get this off the ground. Kendall</I></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><B>Call for Submissions (please forward to interested parties):</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB">UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">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.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><B>PURPOSE:</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">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.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">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).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><B>SUBMISSIONS:</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">We solicit the submission of case reports on any form of community-based projects concerning language preservation, <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">- e.g. reports on local/ regional projects in education, revitalisation, standardisation, community development, awareness raising, capacity building, documentation, use of new technologies, etc.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:9.0pt"><SPAN lang="EN-GB">(Note: These can be projects that do not focus on language exclusively but include language as one aspect among their concerns)</SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">For submission, please use the form and the guidelines available on the Register website of the UNESCO Endangered Languages Programme:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-right:3.9pt;text-indent:0in"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue"><A href="http://www.unesco.org/culture/endangeredlanguages/goodpractices">http://www.unesco.org/culture/endangeredlanguages/goodpractices</A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Submissions will be reviewed by UNESCO experts prior to web publication to ensure consistency.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">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.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Best regards,<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The Endangered Languages Programme Team<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="FR">Intangible Heritage Section</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="FR">UNESCO</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="FR">1 rue Miollis, F-75015 Paris, France</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Fax: +33.1.45.68.57.52<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">E mail: <A href="mailto:ling.diversity@unesco.org">ling.diversity@unesco.org</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#10821D">********************************************</FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#10821D">Kendall King, Ph.D.</FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><A href="http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/akk25/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#10821D">http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/akk25/</FONT></A></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#10821D">*********************************************</FONT></P></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></BODY></HTML>