No blog this week (rest assured fellow followers, just a raincheck until next weekend). Which is widely made up for on the video side of things, however, especially for those of you who speak English!

Videos

A new video, both in English and French, and still in Casamance, Senegal, to discover a string of Baynunk songs interpreted by a choir of women with overflowing energy!

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All the following weeks from now will include a series of videos subtitled in English. Today, four videos in Akele, from Gabon : a presentation of the language, an interview with a speaker of Akele telling us about the decline of his language, a tale from the Downstream God and the Upstream God, and a quick feature on parts of the body.

News

« Inuk », directed in Kalaallisut (Greenland) has just been awarded twice at the International Polar Film Festival!

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Debate around the minority languages of Slovakia: a bill aiming for wider official recognition of the country’s languages is being discussed in parliament.

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Agenda

March 30, 2011: House of the World’s Cultures to organize the 8th Intangible Cultural Heritage Day, within the « Festival de l’Imaginaire », Paris

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April 4, 2011: Application deadline for PhD scholarship in linguistics with the University of New England, Australia, for research focused on languages of New Guinea.

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Soropedia

6 new description sheets (in French) in our Language Encyclopaedia this week, on Maskoyan and Enlhet-Enenlhet languages, spoken in the Paraguayan Chaco area:

• Southern Enxet

• Northern Enlhet

• Sanapaná

• Angaite

• Guaná

• Toba-Enenlhet

And as always…

The word of the fortnight, LANGUAGE, waiting to be translated in your own language, wherever you are…

And also new updates on our Soroquiz.

A beautiful week to all of you,

The Sorosoro crew

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