Breath Of Life

[Andre Cramblit]

Breath of Life Workshop for
California Indian Languages

June 4-10, 2006

Hosted by

The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

and

The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Department of Linguistics
University of California at Berkeley

on-line application form at <www.aicls.org /pages/BOL06app.htm>

The "Breath of Life - Silent no more" California Indian Language  
Restoration Workshop will be held this year on June 4-10, at the  
University of California at Berkeley.  The participants are all  
California Indians whose languages have no speakers (or in some  
cases, just one or two very elderly speakers). The goal will be for  
the participants to access, understand, and do research on materials  
on their languages, and to use them for language revitalization.  The  
participants will create language projects based on those materials  
that they will report on publicly at the end of the week.

The aims of the Breath of Life workshop are:

             (a)           to guide participants to the university  
resources available for their use;

             (b)           to help the participants identify and  
locate the published and unpublished notes and audio recordings made  
by linguists and anthropologists on their languages;

             (c)           for participants to learn the fundamentals  
of linguistic analysis,  including how to read linguists' phonetic  
writing;

             (d)           for participants to learn ways they can  
use linguistic materials and publications to create materials for  
language restoration.

We can only take up to 50 participants, hopefully about half  
returning and half new.  If you would like to apply to come to this  
workshop,           please fill out the application form.   
Applications sent in after May 15 will not be considered.  We will  
let you know in May if your application can be accepted.

We hope to see you at Breath of Life!

Leanne Hinton and L. Frank Manriquez, organizers

Questions?  Email us at <bol2006 at berkeley.edu> or call Leanne at  
(510) 643-7621 or L. Frank at (707) 578-0307.