FW: UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation

[Johanna Laakso]

Dear All,

with usual apologies for cross-postings, a call for submissions for the
UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation. If you know of
good Finno-Ugric (or other) examples, please let them know!

Best
Johanna
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso
Universität Wien € Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und
Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)
Abteilung für Finno-Ugristik
Universitätscampus AAKH, Spitalg. 2-4 Hof 7, A-1090 Wien
Tel. +43 1 4277 43019 | Fax +43 1 4277 9430
johanna.laakso at univie.ac.at | http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/

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From: Stefan Wolff <mailto:S.Wolff at BATH.AC.UK>
To: MIN-LANG at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: CfP: UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation


Call for Submissions (please forward to interested parties):

 
UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation
 

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.

 

 

PURPOSE:

 

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.

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).

 

 

SUBMISSIONS:

 

We solicit the submission of case reports on any form of community-based
projects concerning language preservation,

- e.g. reports on local/ regional projects in education, revitalisation,
standardisation, community development, awareness raising, capacity
building, documentation, use of new technologies, etc.

(Note: These can be projects that do not focus on language exclusively but
include language as one aspect among their concerns)

 

For submission, please use the form and the guidelines available on the
Register website of the UNESCO Endangered Languages Programme:

 

http://www.unesco.org/culture/endangeredlanguages/goodpractices

 

Submissions will be reviewed by UNESCO experts prior to web publication to
ensure consistency.

 

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.

 

Best regards,

 

The Endangered Languages Programme Team

 

Intangible Heritage Section

UNESCO

1 rue Miollis, F-75015 Paris, France

Fax: +33.1.45.68.57.52

E mail: ling.diversity at unesco.org


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