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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, that's very helpful.</FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:julia@torteval.demon.co.uk"
title=julia@torteval.demon.co.uk>Julia Sallabank</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au"
title=endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 01, 2002 11:26
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> ELL: Re: Re:Journalist writing
article about language preservation</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The organisation Terralingua, which I think Luisa
Maffi is involved with, has a website <A
href="http://www.terralingua.org/">http://www.terralingua.org/</A>.
Terralingua is a partnership for linguistic and biological diversity, and is
specifically concerned with linking language preservation and biodiversity.
The website includes information about their projects. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Julia</FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:e-mcewan@uchicago.edu" title=e-mcewan@uchicago.edu>Emily
McEwan-Fujita</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au"
title=endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 01, 2002 7:19
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> ELL: Re:Journalist writing
article about language preservation</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Angelique,<BR><BR>On this topic, Nancy Dorian just
recommended to me the following edited volume:<BR><BR>Luisa Maffi, ed.
On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the
Environment<BR>Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 2001.<BR><BR>Nancy
pointed out that since the papers are from a 1996 conference, their focus on
biodiversity and linguistic diversity predates that of David Crystal and
Nettle and Romaine.<BR><BR>Hope this helps,<BR><BR>Emily
McEwan-Fujita<BR><BR>Dept. of Anthropology<BR>University of Chicago<BR>1126
E. 59th St.<BR>Chicago, IL 60637<BR>U.S.A.<BR><BR>At 05:39 PM 8/30/02 +0200,
you wrote:<BR><FONT face=arial size=2>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite>Dear all,</FONT><BR>I am a journalist writing
an article about language diversity and its links with bio diversity and I
am looking to find actual examples of how languages contain that magical
information about ecosystems or plants or animals or whatever nature is
supposed to hide from us and that linguists are so enthusiastic about.
<BR>Apart from the grub reference in the much lamented article by the WSJ
I have not found anything on the internet to this effect. Does someone
have samples that show if not magnify the importance of language
preservation? <BR>Regards,<BR>Angelique van Engelen</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>----
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