[RNLD List] UNESCO World Atlas of Languages data collection

[Julia Sallabank]

Thank you Doug, a very important point. Can it be circulated more widely?

Best wishes
Julia

On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 23:45, Michif Speaker <hsouter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent point!
>
> Heather Souter,
> Michif (Métis), Manitoba, Canada
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 17:39 Doug Marmion <doug.marmion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was completing the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages survey (link here:
>> https://forms.office.com/r/ZxUYaYsCZ9) and found that the questions
>> don’t make allowance for submitting information on languages that are
>> currently being reawakened (ie being brought back into regular use by the
>> community after a period of having had no speakers). I emailed the UNESCO
>> team to ask about this and they are going to look at amending the survey.
>> As changing the survey form at this point may not be practical, they
>> suggested the following: for question 26, check all the generations who
>> are participating as new users in the reawakening of the language, and in
>> question 27, specify that the language is undergoing reawakening after its
>> loss, with a supporting research link if available.
>>
>> I hope that’s helpful and makes it possible to include information from
>> the many communities working hard to bring their languages back into daily
>> use.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doug
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