death of sign language

[Mark A. Mandel]

Ulrike, is this connected with the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) and the efforts to adapt it for SLs?
* CEFR for Signed Languages European Program: Website under construction; page last modified 21 March 2012. “More information shortly. For further questions please contact us at mail at cefr-signlang.eu
*CEFR Sign language – preliminary design study (2011-2012) for the Swiss SLs

-- Mark

On 12.03.27, at 5:50 AM, Ulrike Zeshan wrote:

> HI, UNESCO has had a project on language endangerment, and a methodology for assessing language vitality was developed by the UNESCO expert group in 2003.
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> Web link:
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> http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/endangered-languages/language-vitality/
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> This can apply to sign languages in principle, but a number of questions for assessment of the language situation need to be adapted for sign languages. We have started doing some work on this with UNESCO and WFD.
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> Ulrike
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