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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Scholars and digital archivists are coming together 29-30 June for a workshop entitled “Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures.” The event is being held in England at Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Martin Raymond of SIL’s <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Welcome">Non-Roman Script Initiative</a> will introduce several new tools for language documentation including <a href="http://www.scriptsource.org/"><i><span style='color:#6600CC'>ScriptSource</span></i></a> and <a href="http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/EGIDS.pdf">EGIDS</a>. The new ScriptSource<i> </i>web site<i> </i>provides a venue for documenting the world’s writing systems. The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) is designed to establish a language’s level of endangerment. This new scale will be applied to languages in the 17th edition of <i>Ethnologue</i>, which is scheduled for publication in early 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dave Pearson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Permanent Representative to UNESCO<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SIL International<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office: +254 202 723 793<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Skype: dave_pearson_sil<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Web: www.sil.org<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language<br>development, by means of research, translation, training and materials development.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>