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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear everyone</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please see the email below and circulate to anyone
interested.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Julia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=S.Wolff@BATH.AC.UK href="mailto:S.Wolff@BATH.AC.UK">Stefan Wolff</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=MIN-LANG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
href="mailto:MIN-LANG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">MIN-LANG@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:47 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> CfP: UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language
Preservation</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Call for Submissions (please forward to
interested parties):<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3>UNESCO Register of Good Practices
in Language Preservation</FONT></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">PURPOSE:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">SUBMISSIONS:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 9pt"><FONT size=2>(Note: These
can be projects that do not focus on language exclusively but include language
as one aspect among their concerns)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyTextIndent
style="MARGIN: 0cm 3.9pt 0pt 0cm; TEXT-INDENT: 0cm"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="http://www.unesco.org/culture/endangeredlanguages/goodpractices">http://www.unesco.org/culture/endangeredlanguages/goodpractices</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The Endangered Languages Programme
Team<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=FR>Intangible Heritage
Section</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=FR>UNESCO</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=FR>1 rue Miollis,
F-75015 Paris, France</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Fax: +33.1.45.68.57.52<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
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></P></BODY></HTML>