Videos

Sorosoro leaves Gabon this week, but we’re staying in Africa with the first of the films we shot in eastern Senegal last fall, in the Bedik community. Linguist Adjaratou Oumar Sall, from the University of Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, introduces us to the Menik language, from the Niger-Congo family.

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Sorosoro News

Sorosoro in New Caledonia! Rozenn Milin, director of our program, attended a symposium on Melanesian languages organized by the Académie des Langues Kanak on September 21 and 22 in Nouméa, within an ongoing festival devoted to the arts of Melanesia. Her speech on the necessity to preserve languages has been widely displayed by the media (RFO, Radio Australia, Radio Rythme Bleu, Nouvelles Calédoniennes…).

We’re actually staying in New Caledonia, as this is where our next film shoot is taking place from October 8, to November 15, 2010!

News

September 20, 2010: The Sentinele, a remote tribe from the Andaman Island, is threatened by the growing presence of poachers: a danger upon the food resources and health of these local populations.

Agenda

September 26, 2010: On this “Week of foreign cultures” (Paris, September 24 to October 3, 2010), the Maison d’Europe et d’Orient is setting up a discussion on the possibilities of giving a larger space to linguistic diversity in the French educational system (Langues de mammouths, ou comment faire intégrer la diversité linguistique à l’Education nationale ?). Another opportunity to reflect on how to improve the teaching of foreign languages at school. Read

October 2-3, 2010: The official selection of the Woodstock Film Festival, near NYC, includes a film in Kalaallisut (spoken in Greenland): Inuk is about the initiatory journey of an Inuit boy who rediscovers the richness of his own culture… Read

Language and language family indexes

In English

• Africa

A place of honor for Menik, this week, a language of the Niger-Congo family. This index was elaborated by linguist Adjaratou O. Sall, also introducing the language in this week’s video.

And as always…

A new term needing a translation of your own: the word of the fortnight is VOICE.

How do you voice voice in your language?

And a weekly updated Soroquiz for you to tackle through on our homepage…

A beautiful week to all of you,

The Sorosoro crew