Institute aims to keep languages alive (fwd link)

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*Institute aims to keep languages alive*

By Meagan Thomas — Lawrence Journal-World

July 8, 2012
US

It’s common to hear of activists working to save an endangered animal or
plant. Some scientists travel the world to find ways to preserve a dying
species.

Since June, people from across the globe have been on Kansas University’s
campus doing just that: trying to save something that’s endangered. But
these visitors aren’t working to keep a certain creature alive; they’re on
campus to keep languages from becoming extinct.

The CoLang 2012 Institute on Collaborative Language Research, sponsored by
the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Documenting Endangered Languages
Program, is a six-week opportunity for participants to become better
trained in linguistic documentation. The institute takes place every two
years at a different university.

The first two weeks of CoLang involve a class or track that participants
take to learn about areas they feel they are struggling with in the
language documentation process. Classes range from theory and grant writing
to technology use. The second part of the institute is a practicum in
either the Uda, Cherokee or Amazigh language. Each practicum uses the
language as the base for fieldwork, and the purpose of the practicum is to
learn better linguis­tic analysis and language techno­logy.

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