Reply to" ELL: Requesting your assistance"

[Lakhan Gusain]

Dear Akira,

I received your mail through ELL List titled"ELL: Requesting your
assistance" where you have mentioned the areas where languages are in
Endangerment. Most of the world is covered in this list, I appreciate this.
But there is no mention of SOUTH ASIA: India, Pakistan, Nepal, sri Lanka,
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Malidives.....

Do you think that There is NO endangered language in these countries?
Whereas, according to rough estimate about ONE THOUSAND endangered
dialects/languages are there in South Asia.

Hope you will the consider this.

All the best,

Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
Faculty
Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
3070, Frieze Building
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1285 (USA)
--------------------------------------Original Message-------

>From: "Akira Y. Yamamoto" <akira at ku.edu>
>Reply-To: endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
>To: endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au
>Subject: ELL: Requesting your assistance
>Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:39:18 -0500
>
>Dear ELLers:
>	Discovery Channel, the world's leading non-fiction entertainment
>channel dedicated to helping people explore the world, will form a
>promotional partnership with the United Nations Educationa, Scientific and
>Cultural Organizaiton (UNESCO) aimed at generating awareness for endangered
>languages and cultural heritage.  To this end, Discovery Channel plans to
>produce the ginettes/films of up to 2 minutes in length each related to
>language preservation and the value of languages both as a means of
>communication and expression of cultural identity.  UNESCO/Discovery
>Channel need to have 2~4 examples of endangered language communities in
>each of the countries listed below.  We are asked to provide such examples
>of endangered languages to be filmed and they want examples:
>(1) that will be illustrative in order to appeal to the general public,
>(2) that have accessible contact persons,
>(3) that will not create any political problem with the concerned
>government,
>(4) that may include spoken, written, or sign language,
>(5) and that the language community is trying to maintain, vitalize or
>revitalize their languages.
>
>The geographical areas they are looking for are:
>
>Great Britain/UK/Ireland
>Western EuropeNordic
>Eastern Europe/Baltics
>Middle East/Turkey/Africa
>Taiwan
>Malaysia
>Korea
>China
>Argentina
>Mexico
>Venezuela
>
>Could anyone help identify such endangered languages/language communities?
>Many thanks, Akira
>
>
>
>Akira Y. Yamamoto
>The University of Kansas
>Department of Anthropology
>Fraser Hall 622
>1415 Jayhawk Blvd.
>Lawrence, KS 66045-7556
>Phone: (785) 864-2645
>FAX: (785) 864-5224
>Anthropology: http://www.ukans.edu/~kuanth/
>Linguistics: http://www.linguistics.ukans.edu/
>




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