Advocates at Berkeley (language)

Endangered Languages Find Advocates at Berkeley

In a temperature-controlled room in Dwinelle Hall’s basement, almost a dozen gray metal cabinets hold paper notes from decades of field work in California’s endangered native languages: a speckled box of index cards that make up the only comparative dictionary of the Chumash languages, yellowed notebooks detailing Eastern Pomo vocabulary and manuscripts recording early research into the languages of the northern Sacramento valley.  Complete story @ http://tinyurl.com/ybqspcb

Stabilizing Indigenous Languages (event)

Language and Place: Attached you will find the Call for Proposals for the 17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium.  The due date for a proposal submission is November 30, 2009 by 5:00 pm PST.  This year the SILS will be held at the University of Oregon June 25, 26, and 27, 2010.  Please check the SILS 2010 website for updated symposium and registration information as it becomes available.  Feel free to pass this Call onto people who may be interested in submitting a proposal to SILS 2010.

If you have any questions please email us at sils2010@uoregon.edu.

Native Teaching Credentials (language)

Gov. Schwarzenegger last week signed an Assembly Bill into law that Vincent Armenta, tribal chairman of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, said will greatly help the Chumash, and other California tribes preserve native languages, many of which are on the brink of extinction.  Complete story at: http://www.thedailysound.com/News/102409Language

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Stabilizing Indigenous Languages

Language and Place
Attached you will find the Call for Proposals for the 17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium.  The due date for a proposal submission is November 30, 2009 by 5:00 pm PST.

This year the SILS will be held at the University of Oregon June 25, 26, and 27, 2010.  Please check the SILS 2010 website for updated symposium and registration information as it becomes available.  Feel free to pass this Call onto people who may be interested in submitting a proposal to SILS 2010.

If you have any questions please email us at sils2010@uoregon.edu.

Thank you for you time and help getting the word out.  We look forward to receiving a proposal from you!

SILS 2010 Planning Committee



 

Yupik Grant (Language)

UAF lands grant to help desigh Yupik language lessons

By Jeff Richardson
Originally published Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

FAIRBANKS — The University of Alaska Fairbanks has landed a $1.7 million federal
grant to help design Yupik-language lessons for schools in southwest Alaska.

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http://tinyurl.com/yhl73xn

Guardians of tradition (language)

Guardians of tradition-By Lauren Dake / The Bulletin Published: October 09. 2009 4:00AM PST

At first Merle Kirk and Adeline Miller were inseparable. For eight hours a day, the two went over language drills. Miller, a tribal elder, would say a word in her native Ishichkin, and Kirk would repeat it. They traveled and taught together. Kirk listened without interrupting. Access full at: http://tinyurl.com/ygsmjz8

Keeping The Culture (Language)

Keeping it in the culture

Senior helps create course to teach, revitalize Ojibwe language

Janie Boschma-Issue date: 10/8/09 Section: Student Life

Senior Paul Ganas goes over a list of Ojibwe words and phrases before his language class Monday in the Old Library's distance learning lab, where the class is both broadcast live and recorded. Watch archived classes online.

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