Video

Here we are back in Gabon with the first episode of a Mpongwe tale: the story of Ogoula and Ilombè, told by Jean Félix Ayenouet, one of the last great storytellers of the area… Watch the video

Sorosoro News

Sorosoro in daily paper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes! Program Director Rozenn Milin gave two interviews following her lecture at the Symposium on Melanesian Languages, held in Nouméa at the end of September. Read more

News

Two fascinating publications tackle the question of language preservation:

– In their Index of Linguistic Diversity, researchers Dave Harmon and Jonathan Loh offer a detailed and well-argued report on the world’s language demography. Read more

– And an uncompromising point of view on the education of indigenous children, in Danish/Finish linguist Tove Skutnabb-Kangas’ latest work, Indigenous Children’s Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity? A Global View. Read more

Agenda

The Woodstock Film Festival will be screening Inuk this weekend: a film in Kalaallisut (language of Greenland) about the initiatory journey of a young boy who discovers the richness of his Inuit culture… Read more

The NPLD (Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity), devoted to the preservation of linguistic diversity in Europe, will be holding their annual conference in Brussels on October 27, 2010. Read more

And as always…

The word Voice needing your own voice and translation…

and new questions up in the Soroquiz, available on our homepage.

A beautiful week to all of you,

The Sorosoro crew.