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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>In August 2009 UNESCO published a
preliminary study on the possibility of an international standard-setting
instrument for the protection of indigenous and endangered languages. You can
read it here: <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001836/183669e.pdf">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001836/183669e.pdf</a>.
Over the next two years UNESCO will be observing the effectiveness of
current international instruments and will be deciding whether or not to set up
something non-binding (such as a declaration or recommendation) or something
legally binding (such as a convention). The Culture Commission of UNESCO’s
General Conference will be debating this issue on Friday 16 October in Paris. I’ll
be there taking part in the debate, along with Paul “Ethnologue”
Lewis. Will any other ILATers attend?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’m also looking forward to attending a side event that
same day on “Assessing Literacy in Diverse Languages: The LAMP Challenge”
by UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Dave Pearson<o:p></o:p></p>
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