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February 11, 2011 : News from Sorosoro.org
Blog
This week Claire Moyse-Faurie, CNRS Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Oral Tradition Languages and Civilizations (LACITO), posts an article on the Oceanian continent, a champion of multiligualism !
Video
Our series on animal tales in Casamance, Senegal, will soon be over ! As in previsous weeks, Issouf Coly billiantly delivers one last, and actually quite odd, story: « How a child terrified the animals of the forest » .
News
Visitors of our sorosoro.org website are by now familiar with the mpongwe language of Gabon, which we have filmed in 2009. Those wishing to know more about this language can now connect to Angela Ontchanga’s dedicated blog.
Agenda
February 21, 2011 : 12th International Mother Language Day, organised by UNESCO to promote linguistic diversity and multilingualism, and preserve linguistic human heritage.
March 3-4, 2011 : a new « Tralogy » symposium on translation careers and technologies, at the CNRS headquarters, Paris.
Language description sheets
New sheets are availabe this week, taking us from Australia (burarra, walmajarri and meriam mir) to Georgia (mingrelian).
And as always…
Send us your translations for the word of the fortnight : « drunk ».
You will also find an updated Soroquiz on our homepage…
A beautiful week to all of you !
The Sorosoro Team
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