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May 2, 2011 : Learn colours in Syriac, read about Guarani/Portuguese bilingual schooling in Brazil, and much more!
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After having looked, in a previous article, at the very special position of Guarani in Paraguay, let’s see how Guarani/Portuguese bilingual schooling has been introduced in Brazil, under very different circumstances…
New videos
Our little foray into Aramaic languages is coming to an end this week! And for our last video with Father Yakup Aydin, priest of the Syriac Orthodox church of Antakya in France, we learn colours in Syriac.
News
Scholars from Oxford have undertaken to document the Dusner language, with only 3 speakers left in Papuasia, nearly wiped out by recent natural disasters.
Algerian daily El Watan warns on « collapse » of education in Amazighe language, although promoted since 1980.
Agenda
May 1st, 2011: France 5 broadcasted, and will broadcast again in the following weeks, a documentary on and by Yawalapiti Indians : « Kuarup, the joy of the sun ».
May 3, 2011: Screening in Paris of Australian film « Contact – The day the white man came », on the 1964 encounter of an Australian government expedition with the Martu, in the western part of the country.
Soropedia
Our « Language Encyclopaedia » is home to 4 new language description sheets:
One language from Mexico : Ayapaneco, the two last speakers of which were the subject of an article last week.
Two languages from Brazil : Xokleng, of the Jê family, and Xeta, a critically endangered Guarani language with only 3 speakers left.
One Australian language from Queensland, critically endangered as well : Wargamay.
And as always…
A new word of the fortnight is awaiting your numerous translations : « To speak ».
A beautiful week to all of you!
The Sorosoro Team
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