<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear language revitalization practitioners out there, please read this (and feel free to recirculate)! (Apologies for cross-postings.)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class="">JL<br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">--</div><div class="">Univ.Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso</div><div class="">Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)</div><div class="">Abteilung Finno-Ugristik</div><div class="">Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7</div><div class="">A-1090 Wien</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at" class="">johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at</a> • <a href="http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/" class="">http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/</a></div><div class="">Project ELDIA: <a href="http://www.eldia-project.org/" class="">http://www.eldia-project.org/</a> </div><div class="">VIRSU network: <a href="http://www.univie.ac.at/virsu/" class="">http://www.univie.ac.at/virsu/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span></div></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Perez-Baez, Gabriela" <<a href="mailto:PerezBaezG@si.edu" class="">PerezBaezG@si.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">February 26, 2017 at 6:11:20 AM GMT+1<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Dear colleague,<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">I am writing in my capacity as Curator of Linguistics at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and it’s Recovering Voices initiative. </font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Under my direction, the Recovering Voices Initiative is carrying out a survey of language revitalization programs worldwide. As part of our efforts, we are asking revitalization practitioners to please share their experience with us. This research is the first of its kind, and we expect that it will yield insights that are of value to practitioners involved in language revitalization around the world. <o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">If you are a revitalization practitioner, we would be most grateful if you would be willing to take a moment to tell us about the language you are working to revitalize, and about your efforts to do so. You can access the survey in various language versions:<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">English:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LanguageRevitalization-Eng" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 233);" class="">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LanguageRevitalization-Eng</span></a><span style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67);" class="">. </span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Spanish:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/RevitalizacionDeLenguas-Esp" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/RevitalizacionDeLenguas-Esp</a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">French:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/RevitalisationLinguistique-Fr" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/RevitalisationLinguistique-Fr</a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Portuguese:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LanguageRevitalization-Por" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LanguageRevitalization-Por</a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Russian:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LanguageRevitalization-Rus" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LanguageRevitalization-Rus</a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Chinese:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LanguageRevitalization-Chi" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LanguageRevitalization-Chi</a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">To date, we have close to two hundred surveys filled out. However, we have significant gaps for Asian and African contexts, hence this outreach effort to you all. Please also share this call and relevant links with other language revitalization practitioners. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the project’s research assistant Rachel Vogel at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vogelr@si.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">vogelr@si.edu</a>. <o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">With best regards,</font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Gabriela</font></div><div class=""><div id="MAC_OUTLOOK_SIGNATURE" class=""><div class=""><div class="">-- -- -- -- -- -- -- </div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><i class="">Gabriela Pérez Báez, Ph.D.</i><div class="">Curator of Linguistics</div></div></div><div class="">Co-Director, National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages</div><div class="">Director, Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gabriela_Baez" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gabriela_Baez</a><br class=""><a href="https://si.academia.edu/GabrielaP%C3%A9rezB%C3%A1ez" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://si.academia.edu/GabrielaPérezBáez</a></span><br class=""><span data-mce-style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts: <a href="http://recoveringvoices.si.edu/research/associatedresearch.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://recoveringvoices.si.edu/research/associatedresearch.html</a> </font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">National Ethnobotanical Herbarium Online (pilot): <a href="https://neho.si.edu/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://neho.si.edu</a>/</font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="">Department of Anthropology</div><div class="">National Museum of Natural History</div><div class="">Smithsonian Institution, MRC 112<div class=""><span lang="en-US" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">10th and Constitution Avenue NW</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Washington, DC 20560</div></span><strong class=""></strong></div>Tel. <a href="tel:202.633.0880" value="+12026330880" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">202.633.0880</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82); font-weight: bold;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">About Recovering Voices:</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82); font-weight: bold;" class="">Website</span><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82);" class="">: <a href="mailto:www.recoveringvoices@si.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.recoveringvoices@si.edu</a></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><a href="http://global.si.edu/success-stories/smithsonian-works-communities-around-world-recover-and-sustain-endangered-languages" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class="">http://global.si.edu/success-stories/smithsonian-works-communities-around-world-recover-and-sustain-endangered-languages</font></a></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82); font-weight: bold;" class="">Blog</span><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82);" class="">:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://nmnh.typepad.com/recoveringvoices/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http</a></span><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82);" class=""><a href="http://nmnh.typepad.com/recoveringvoices/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">://nmnh.typepad.com/recoveringvoices/</a></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82); font-weight: bold;" class="">Facebook</span><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82);" class="">:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/RecoveringVoices" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.facebook.com/RecoveringVoices</a></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82); font-weight: bold;" class="">Twitter</span><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82);" class="">: @</span><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82);" class="">RecoverVoices</span><span style="color: rgb(3, 18, 39);" class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82);" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><b class="">YouTube</b>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/smithsonianNMNH/playlists" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/user/smithsonianNMNH/playlists</a></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0pt 0cm 0pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="3" class=""><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82); font-weight: bold;" class="">Breath of Life</span><span style="color: rgb(36, 40, 82);" class="">: </span><a href="http://nationalbreathoflife.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://nationalbreathoflife.org</a>/</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>