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Sorosoro Blog

This is it, the Sorosoro blog has launched its first debate! We hope many of you will share their opinions and comments to this article on mother tongue-based education.

Sorosoro Director Rozenn Milin puts forward the significant impact of the language used in children’s education on the quality of literacy and their learning proficiency. Please don’t go too far, we’d like to hear your views on the subject!

Sorosoro India

Seven months after a first journey canvassing in India, the Sorosoro foundation (Sorosoro Trust) comes to life on the subcontinent. The objective of Sorosoro India is to document the near hundred unscheduled languages of a country counting 22 official languages and possibly around a thousand more! Read

Videos

After weeks spent in Gabon with the Akele, we now return to Guatemala and the Kaqchikel community, with an introduction to numbers by José Alfredo Obdulio Perén Gabino. The discerning ear won’t help but notice how different the sound of Kaqchikel is from the other languages we have worked on so far…

Besides this week’s video, and still on Kaqchikel, speakers of English will find a newly subtitled interview of master of ceremony B’alam Tija telling us about the progressive decline of his language and culture.

Language family index

News for Spanish speakers, our Indo-European index is now available… in Spanish. Many thanks to Jhonnatan for his translation.

Agenda

The Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale and the GDRI “Anthropologie et histoire des arts” organize a symposium on anthropological restitution (“how and who for”), to be held on December 2nd and 3rd at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris. The symposium will question the place and role occupied by researchers in their relation with the populations they work on, as well as the big issue of “what can be said, shown, and what cannot” to the general public. Read

And as always…

The word Chatty asking for as many translations as possible,

and of course an updated Soroquiz available on our homepage…

A beautiful day to all of you,

The Sorosoro crew