Speakers of French, attention please! Marie-Hélène Fraïssé’s show Tout un Monde (« A whole world ») starts next Tuesday at 3pm – metro time – and devotes this week’s broadcast to the languages of the French Overseas Departments and Territories.

For those who aren’t familiar with the show, here’s a taste of what it offers:

Today’s world is made of a million worlds. The planetary blending hybridizes our lives, fuels our curiosity, ruffles our references, overrides our projections. New identities grow, languages disappear while others develop, buried civilizations reemerge, and peoples reinvent themselves.

Definitely on the same page at Sorosoro!

As it happens, the guests of this first airing are Rozenn Milin, Sorosoro director, and Michel Launey, linguist and member of the Sorosoro Scientific board.

The program will shed some light on the activities of Sorosoro in the French Overseas – with filming sessions in New Caledonia and French Guyana – and offer a chance to speak about education in indigenous languages, one of the field specialties of Michel Launey.

You’ll also hear a bit of Xârâcùù, a Kanak language of New Caledonia, with a sneak preview of what the Sorosoro crew filmed over there and a presentation of Marie-Adèle Jorédié, a Kanak activist who created « BB-lecture » programs in order to teach Xârâcùù to the children of her community.

Tune in here.