call: UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation

[Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong]

>From  "Castro, Santiago" <S.Castro at unesco.org> 
Date  Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:22:37 +0200 


UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation

 

In accordance with its mission to protect and promote cultural 
diversity, and in particular to encourage the safeguarding of 
endangered languages as an essential part of the living heritage of 
humanity, UNESCO calls for submissions to its online 'Register of Good 
Practices in Language Preservation' under the Endangered Languages 
Programme. We are interested in collecting reports on both ongoing and 
past projects.

 

 

PURPOSE:

 

The purpose of this Register is to identify and collect reports 
concerning efforts in language preservation, as a means to facilitate 
the dissemination of Good Practice knowledge, expertise and experience 
in this area, and thus to encourage future application and adaptation 
worldwide. To this end, we ask speaker communities, governmental and 
non-governmental organisations, and related experts to share their 
good experiences in the preservation, revitalisation and promotion of 
endangered languages with a wider public, via our Good Practices 
database.

Registry in this database is also meant to ensure the visibility, 
recognition, and accessibility of the projects entered (the UNESCO 
portal recording over 10 million hits on average every month).

 

 

SUBMISSIONS:

 

We solicit the submission of case reports on any form of community-
based projects concerning language preservation, 

- e.g. reports on local/ regional projects in education, 
revitalisation, standardisation, community development, awareness 
raising, capacity building, documentation, use of new technologies, 
etc.

(Note: These can be projects that do not focus on language exclusively 
but include language as one aspect among their concerns)

 

For submission, please use the form and the guidelines available on 
the Register website of the UNESCO Endangered Languages Programme:

 

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/goodpractice

 

Submissions will be reviewed by UNESCO experts prior to web 
publication to ensure consistency.

 

Your participation is greatly appreciated – it helps establish a 
valuable service of knowledge transfer in language preservation, for 
future efforts and projects worldwide that safeguard language 
diversity as an important aspect of our living heritage.

 

Best regards,

 

The Endangered Languages Programme Team

 

Intangible Heritage Section 

UNESCO

1 rue Miollis, F-75015 Paris, France

Fax: +33.1.45.68.57.52

E mail: ling.diversity at unesco.org