Blog

Our series on multilingualism continues with University of Paris Descartes senior lecturer in linguistics and phonetics Denis Costaouec presenting a stimulating thesis on the transition of popular traditional monolingualism to State language monolingualism and its consequences.

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Video

We leave Senegal and return to Gabon, where Henrietta takes us into her kitchen to share, in the Mpongwe language, her smoked threadfin on palm nut sauce recipe… So get your pots and your pans ready!

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News

Since December 2010: Open Language Archive Community (OLAC) provides a new search service on languages, enabling access to more than 100,000 documents…

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Agenda

February 25-27, 2011: as part of the Oceanographic Institute’s « Polar Nights » in Paris this weekend, you will be able to attend discussions, lectures, slide shows and film screenings, including « Inuk » in the Kalaalisut language.

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March 25, 2011: The first Cambridge International Conference on Language Endangerment is fully booked, but a waiting list is available.

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Language Description sheets

This week, new description sheets on two Pama-Nyungan languages (Australia) have been added to our “encyclopedia” in English: djinang and wik-ngathan.

And as always…

Have fun translating our current word of the fortnight: « to play »!

You will also find an updated Soroquiz on our homepage…

A excellent week to all of you!

The Sorosoro Team

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