[lg policy] 20th Conference of Foundation for Endangered Languages coming up

[Nicholas Ostler]

Please note the latest on FEL XX.

The conference is to be held in Hyderabad, India, in just a month: 9-12 
December 2016

The theme is
Language Colonisation & Endangerment: Long-term Effects, Echoes and 
Reactions

In the colonial period, how was the use of local traditional languages, 
and indeed other languages of wider communication, restricted?

The differing status of languages within a territory may also have been 
a feature of colonial rule and later political dispensations, Often 
post-colonial policy begins with a crisis in the choice of which 
languages to support.

What means were used to channel communication and expression into other 
languages?

Subsequently, how have language planning and liberation struggles made a 
difference - positive or negative - to the use and prospects of 
indigenous languages?

All these themes will be discussed in the beautiful environment of the 
University of Hyderabad, a city which is capital for both Telegu and 
Urdu speaking communities in India.

Full details, and a means to register can be found at
http://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2016/


-- 
Nicholas Ostler

nicholas at ostler.net
+44 (0)7720-889319, (0)1488-208563

Chairman:
Foundation for Endangered Languages
www.ogmios.org

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