Linguapax Prize 2008: Neville Alexander of South Africa

[Don Osborn]

FYI, I put up a short posting at http://donosborn.org/blog/?p=9 that
includes links to more information about Dr. Alexander.



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> http://www.unescocat.org/en/serveis/premsa.php
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> 2008 Linguapax Prize: Dr. Neville Alexander of South Africa
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> 22.02.2008
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> The South African linguist Neville Alexander will receive the
> Linguapax Award today in Barcelona, on the occasion of the Mother
> Language Day. The ceremony is framed in the Intercultural Week
> organised by the Ramon Llull University. Alexander, who coordinates
> the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa has
> devoted more than twenty years of his professional life to defend and
> preserve multilingualism in the post-apartheid South Africa and has
> become one of the major advocates of linguistic diversity.
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguapax_Prize>
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