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Closing our series on mother-tongue education, we invite you to read Bénédicte Pivot’s and Colette Grinevald’s article on schooling in the Rama language, a language of Nicaragua posing a different problem from those previously mentioned : indeed, what is discussed here is the reintroduction of a language which used to be   a mother tongue but no longer is, and which its speakers call a « treasure language ».

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Video

We’re still in Guatemala with the Tektiteko. After looking into the different stages of the cultivation of corn, last week, you will hear a potter describe how she works the clay, and talk about her daily life, in one of the most endangered Maya languages!

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News

December 2010 : researchers at the University of Cambridge announced the compilation of a new database on endangered languages.

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Agenda

January 14, 2011:  application deadline for Assistant Professor in Linguistics position at University of Hawai’i, to begin August 1, 2011.

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January 29, 2011: Philippe Kadosh’s « BabelEyes » show in Arcueil (greater Paris, France) invites us to a poetic, sociological, linguistic, and musical journey, described by the author as an  “ethnopera of Endangered Languages”…

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And as always…

Feel free to translate the new word of the fortnight : « fire ».

You will also find an updated Soroquiz on our homepage…

We wish you all Happy Holidays! And see you in January, after a two week break!

The Sorosoro team.

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