[EDLING:885] Endangered Languages/Call for Submissions

[Kendall King]

A current Georgetown student is organizing this at UNESCO. They are  
very organized and  quite eager to get this off the ground. Kendall


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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Kendall King, Ph.D.
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/akk25/
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