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Sorosoro – July 1, 2011
New: Sorosoro videos subtitled in Spanish
Read: « Esperanto, a language by choice »
See: « The young girl who wanted to drink beer », a Bedik tale from Senegal, and a presentation of Tamasheq, the language of the Tuareg.
Sorosoro videos now subtitled in Spanish!
Since our website was launched in 2009, we have intended it to be trilingual in English, French and Spanish. Most texts already are, but such was not the case with our videos, available only in English and French. Through the efforts of Martha, our translator for Spanish, we will gladly be presenting from now on our new weekly videos with Spanish subtitles! And we’ll also gradually catch up on all other videos, starting this week with all four Bedik tales from Senegal…
New videos
Around the fire, in the Bedik village of Bandafassi, eastern Senegal, Aminata Camara tells us a fourth story which ends our first cycle of tales in the Menik language: « the young girl who wanted to drink beer ». Involving once again the local wildlife, it probably also provides a means to instill some life lessons in children…
And we’re kicking off with a new series of videos that’ll take us spend the summer discovering Tamasheq, the language of the Tuareg. Along the following weeks we’ll be encountering Tuareg literate figures and musicians like Moussa Ag Keyna from the band Toumast, or Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni who plays in Tinariwen. But for now we begin with a presentation of this widely unknown language…
Blog
Former editor of Esperanto magazine Kontakto, and active collaborator of the Esperantic Studies Foundation, Yevgeniya Amis mentions the motivations and ideals that drive the speakers of this 125-year-old constructed language…
News
June 2011: International press covers completion of Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, the last volume of which has just been published after 90 years worth of research…
June 12, 2011: Guardian article: « Bilingual brains are more healthy ». To understand why bilingualism delays the effects of Alzheimer’s disease…
June 14, 2011: Indian Country on social media to rescue native languages.
June 15, 2011: SlateAfrique.com article entitled « Tamazight, official language of Morocco? ».
Agenda
June 25 – July 8, 2011: International summer campus on the comparative status of indigenous peoples, Rouen, France.
September 12-15, 2011: 2nd Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism, Spain.
Soropedia
7 language description sheets (in French, yet to be translated):
– Three Melanesian languages of the Vanikoro Island (Solomon Islands): Lovono, Tanema and Teanu.
– Two languages part to the Macro-Jê phylum, and spoken in Brazil: Maxakali, and Yatê.
– Two Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages from Kamchatka: Itelmene and Alutor
Not forgetting…
A new word of the fortnight awaits your countless translations: « Earth ».
And an updated Soroquiz on our homepage…
An excellent week to all of you!
The Sorosoro crew
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