ELL: Requesting your assistance

[Akira Y. Yamamoto]

Dear ELLers:
	Discovery Channel, the world's leading non-fiction entertainment
channel dedicated to helping people explore the world, will form a
promotional partnership with the United Nations Educationa, Scientific and
Cultural Organizaiton (UNESCO) aimed at generating awareness for endangered
languages and cultural heritage.  To this end, Discovery Channel plans to
produce the ginettes/films of up to 2 minutes in length each related to
language preservation and the value of languages both as a means of
communication and expression of cultural identity.  UNESCO/Discovery
Channel need to have 2~4 examples of endangered language communities in
each of the countries listed below.  We are asked to provide such examples
of endangered languages to be filmed and they want examples:
(1) that will be illustrative in order to appeal to the general public,
(2) that have accessible contact persons,
(3) that will not create any political problem with the concerned government,
(4) that may include spoken, written, or sign language,
(5) and that the language community is trying to maintain, vitalize or
revitalize their languages.

The geographical areas they are looking for are:

Great Britain/UK/Ireland
Western EuropeNordic
Eastern Europe/Baltics
Middle East/Turkey/Africa
Taiwan
Malaysia
Korea
China
Argentina
Mexico
Venezuela

Could anyone help identify such endangered languages/language communities?
Many thanks, Akira



Akira Y. Yamamoto
The University of Kansas
Department of Anthropology
Fraser Hall 622
1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7556
Phone: (785) 864-2645
FAX: (785) 864-5224
Anthropology: http://www.ukans.edu/~kuanth/
Linguistics: http://www.linguistics.ukans.edu/

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/endangered-languages-l/attachments/20020416/8941df0f/attachment.htm>