{"id":45550,"date":"2011-04-12T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=45550"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:02:40","slug":"april-11-2011-latest-news-on-sorosoro-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/04\/april-11-2011-latest-news-on-sorosoro-org\/","title":{"rendered":"April 11, 2011: Latest news on Sorosoro.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Blog<\/h5>\n<p>Linguist <strong>Matthias Weinreich<\/strong> offers a prime example of <strong>multilingualism<\/strong>, in <strong>Pakistan<\/strong>, where the population often speaks 3 or 4 languages fluently. A case that bears learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sorosoro.org\/en\/multilingualism-in-pakistan\">See blog<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Videos<\/h5>\n<p>Last week we introduced <strong>Father Yakup Aydin<\/strong>, priest of the Syriac Orthodox church of Antakya in France, who comes from southeast Turkey and speaks Aramaic languages; <strong>Syriac <\/strong>and Toroyo. Today he tells us the<strong> days of the week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/the-days-of-the-week-in-syriac\">See video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And <strong>three new videos in Kaqchikel language<\/strong> (Guatemala) on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/maya-new-year-in-kaqchikel\"> <strong>Mayan New Year<\/strong><\/a> are now available with <strong>English subtitles<\/strong>: the symbolism of colours, offerings to ancestors, and the predestination.<\/p>\n<h5>Agenda<\/h5>\n<p><strong>April 22-23<\/strong>: <strong>7th annual Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA)<\/strong> at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, <strong>USA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/april-22-23-2011-conference-on-the-endangered-languages-and-cultures-of-native-america-celcna-salk-lake-city-usa\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reminder for this week:<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 15<\/strong>: \u00ab<strong> Linguistic Immersion A-Z<\/strong> \u00bb <strong>workshop <\/strong>registration deadline, Tucson AZ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/april-15-tucson-arizona-immersion-a-z-workshop-registration-deadline\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>News<\/h5>\n<p>Cambridge University Press reissues linguist <strong>R.M.W. Dixon<\/strong>\u2019s \u00ab <strong>Searching for Aboriginal languages<\/strong> \u00bb. Dixon retraces<strong> fourteen years of research in the Aboriginal communities of northeastern Queensland, Australia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/february-2011-r-m-w-dixon%E2%80%99s-%C2%AB-searching-for-aboriginal-languages-%C2%BB-reissued\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Soropedia<\/h5>\n<p>Our database on the world\u2019s languages is home to <strong>4 new description sheets (in <\/strong><strong>French)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; along with this week\u2019s video, a sheet on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/modern-aramaic-languages\"><strong>Aramaic language group<\/strong><\/a> and one on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/turoyo\">Turoyo<\/a> <\/strong>add to a page on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/sureth\">Sureth<\/a> <\/strong>language. Many thanks to Jean Sibille for the precious information he has provided.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a very comprehensive sheet on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/le-dalabon\"><strong>Dalabon<\/strong><\/a>, language of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/famille-des-langues-gunwinyguan\"><strong>Gunwinyguan family<\/strong><\/a>, thanks to the contribution of Ma\u00efa Ponsonnet who has also written two articles on Australian multiligualism both available on our blog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a sheet on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/le-chiriguano-ou-ava-guarani-ou-guarani\">Chiriguano<\/a> dialectal group<\/strong>, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/famille-des-langues-tupi\"><strong>Tupi-Guarani family<\/strong><\/a>, spoken between Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay.<\/p>\n<h5>And as always\u2026<\/h5>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/birth\">word of the fortnigh<\/a>t is \u2018<strong>BIRTH<\/strong>\u2019. 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