Languages in Museum - new concept and deadline!

[Lena Terhart]

Dear all,

after considering space, time, and budget constraints, ethical aspects and the implementation of the exhibit on endangered languages into the general conception of the exhibition's topic and its realization together with the curators, we decided:

- that the exhibit will take up the idea that was proposed by Alice Taff: two big people holding a tiny box with the world's major languages two small people holding a big box with the world's small and endangered languages. In addition a text box will provide some very basic (intellligible also for children) background information about diminishing linguistic variety.

- the boxes that the people hold will be filled with words from the major languages and from the small languages respectively

- therefore it is necessary that there is a connection between the words, not just random words from different languages

- so here is an updated request:

If you want to contribute to the exhibit, could you please send me (lena.terhart at gmx.de):
- words for these three concepts: 1. child, 2. water, 3. sun. In case the language doesn't have a word that exactly fits the concepts, please send related words (like boy and girl, baby, rain, river, heat etc.)
- very basic information about the language: the name of the language, the location where it is spoken and number of speakers if known
- in case you have sound files of the words, it would be great, if you sent them, too

We didn't get to a conclusion regarding the implementation of sound files, because it highly depends on what you can send us. It is decided that there will be sound to represent endangered languages, but it may come from only one or two languages (in that case a larger sound file) or from many different languages (shorter sound files).

Please note that there is also a new deadline, which is even closer: The coming Monday, 9.9.2013. 

I'm very sorry for it being that close. Nevertheless, I hope that we can collect examples from as many languages as possible.

Best,
Lena Terhart
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