ELL: Re: Re:Journalist writing article about language preservation

[Julia Sallabank]

The organisation Terralingua, which I think Luisa Maffi is involved with, has a website http://www.terralingua.org/. Terralingua is a partnership for linguistic and biological diversity, and is specifically concerned with linking language preservation and biodiversity. The website includes information about their projects. 

Best wishes

Julia
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Emily McEwan-Fujita 
  To: endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au 
  Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 7:19 PM
  Subject: ELL: Re:Journalist writing article about language preservation


  Angelique,

  On this topic, Nancy Dorian just recommended to me the following edited volume:

  Luisa Maffi, ed.  On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment
  Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 2001.

  Nancy pointed out that since the papers are from a 1996 conference, their focus on biodiversity and linguistic diversity predates that of David Crystal and Nettle and Romaine.

  Hope this helps,

  Emily McEwan-Fujita

  Dept. of Anthropology
  University of Chicago
  1126 E. 59th St.
  Chicago, IL 60637
  U.S.A.

  At 05:39 PM 8/30/02 +0200, you wrote:

    Dear all,
    I am a journalist writing an article about language diversity and its links with bio diversity and I am looking to find actual examples of how languages contain that magical information about ecosystems or plants or animals or whatever nature is supposed to hide from us and that linguists are so enthusiastic about. 
    Apart from the grub reference in the much lamented article by the WSJ I have not found anything on the internet to this effect. Does someone have samples that show if not magnify the importance of language preservation? 
    Regards,
    Angelique van Engelen

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