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February 18, 2011: latest news from Sorosoro.org
Blog
Claire Moyse-Faurie, CNRS Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Oral Tradition Languages and Civilizations (LACITO), continues her presentation on Oceanian multilinguism by discussing its decline and the rise of a few dominant languages…
Video
Issouf Coly brings us the twist of his last animal tale in Baynunk: « How a child terrified the animals of the forest ». We hope he will amuse you as much as his local audience, the villagers of Niamone in Casamance (Senegal)!
News
February 9-13, 2011: The International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) was held at the University of Hawai’i, bringing together 350 linguists and other contributors from all around the world, including Rozenn Milin who outlined Sorosoro’s work…
February 2011: The Guardian published an account of Nicholas Ostler‘s latest book announcing the decline of English as a global lingua franca and the return of Babel! A bold thesis sparking debate…
Agenda
March 11-13, 2011: 10th Australian Languages Workshop to be organized by University of Queensland’s School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies.
Language Description sheets
This week we have published one language description sheet in English, on Kala Lagaw Ya, a language belonging to the Macro-Pama-Nyungan family and spoken on the islands between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
And as always…
Translating the new word of the fortnight should be quite entertaining, for it is… « to play »!
A excellent week to all of you!
The Sorosoro Team
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