<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> Forwarded From: <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edling-request@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling-request@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:56 PM<br>Today's Topics:<br>
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1. NZ: Gore celebrates growing cultural mix (Francis Hult)<br>
2. Thirteen languages in Germany are struggling to survive,<br>
UNESCO warns (Francis Hult)<br>
3. Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge (Francis Hult)<br>
4. Education in a multilingual world: UNESCO education position<br>
paper (Francis Hult)<br>
5. Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of<br>
Disappearing (Francis Hult)<br>
6. Re: Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge (van Lier, Leo A.)<br>
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:54:35 -0600<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] NZ: Gore celebrates growing cultural mix<br>
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The Southland Times<br>
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Gore celebrates growing cultural mix<br>
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For the first time since it was started 11 years ago, International Mother Language Day was celebrated in Gore, courtesy of the efforts of the fledgling Eastern Southland Newcomers Network.<br>
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:56:21 -0600<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Thirteen languages in Germany are struggling to<br>
survive, UNESCO warns<br>
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DW-world.de<br>
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Thirteen languages in Germany are struggling to survive, UNESCO warns<br>
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Germany's regional dialects and languages have fewer and fewer speakers, according to UNESCO. On Thursday they released a list of 13 languages spoken in Germany that they say are at risk of disappearing.<br>
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<a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14849471,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14849471,00.html</a><br>
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:59:25 -0600<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge<br>
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The Huffington Post<br>
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Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge<br>
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When ideas go extinct, we all grow poorer. Half the world's 7,000 languages now face extinction; a dramatic shift in human intellectual history. Our 21st century world -- replete with wondrous technologies -- rests upon the foundation of all humankind's prior wisdom and creativity.<br>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-harrison/emerging-languages-emerge_b_825256.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-harrison/emerging-languages-emerge_b_825256.html</a><br>
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The Huffington Post<br>
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Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge<br>
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When ideas go extinct, we all grow poorer. Half the world's 7,000 languages now face extinction; a dramatic shift in human intellectual history. Our 21st century world -- replete with wondrous technologies -- rests upon the foundation of all humankind's prior wisdom and creativity.<br>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-harrison/emerging-languages-emerge_b_825256.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-harrison/emerging-languages-emerge_b_825256.html</a><br>
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:01:17 -0600<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Education in a multilingual world: UNESCO education<br>
position paper<br>
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Education in a multilingual world: UNESCO education position paper<br>
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This document aims to clarify some of the key concepts and issues that surround the debate and presents in a simplified and synthetic form the many declarations and recommendations that have made reference to the issues of languages and education. These are stated as UNESCO guidelines and principles.<br>
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Available for free online in English, French, Spanish, Arabic:<br>
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<a href="http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16567&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html" target="_blank">http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16567&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</a><br>
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:04:40 -0600<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger<br>
of Disappearing<br>
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Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing<br>
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The online edition of the Atlas is complementary to the print edition It does not reproduce the regional and thematic chapters of the print version, but it offers additional information on the listed endangered languages. Via this interface, you can browse through them, using combinations of search criteria and/or zooming in the map...<br>
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Access the map:<br>
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<a href="http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap.html" target="_blank">http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap.html</a><br>
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:50:34 +0000<br>
From: "van Lier, Leo A." <<a href="mailto:lvanlier@miis.edu">lvanlier@miis.edu</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Edling] Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge<br>
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Funny .... nothing from the Tea Party or Glenn Beck about mother language day?<br>
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On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Francis Hult wrote:<br>
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The Huffington Post<br>
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Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge<br>
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When ideas go extinct, we all grow poorer. Half the world's 7,000 languages now face extinction; a dramatic shift in human intellectual history. Our 21st century world -- replete with wondrous technologies -- rests upon the foundation of all humankind's prior wisdom and creativity.<br>
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Full story:<br>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-harrison/emerging-languages-emerge_b_825256.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-harrison/emerging-languages-emerge_b_825256.html</a><br>
The Huffington Post<br>
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Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge<br>
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When ideas go extinct, we all grow poorer. Half the world's 7,000 languages now face extinction; a dramatic shift in human intellectual history. Our 21st century world -- replete with wondrous technologies -- rests upon the foundation of all humankind's prior wisdom and creativity.<br>
<br>
Full story:<br>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-harrison/emerging-languages-emerge_b_825256.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-harrison/emerging-languages-emerge_b_825256.html</a><br>
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