{"id":50103,"date":"2011-06-11T01:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=50103"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:35:54","slug":"sorosoro-june-6-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/06\/sorosoro-june-6-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorosoro &#8211; June 6, 2011 <br\/><br\/><i>Read<\/i>: Vanuatu\u2019s exceptional linguistic diversity<br\/><i>See<\/i>: the orphan avenged by the forest, Bedik tale<br\/>and more news, events, Soropedia updates\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blog<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Linguist <strong>Alexandre Fran\u00e7ois<\/strong> takes us to <strong>Vanuatu<\/strong>, an archipelago that is very much representative of the exuberant linguistic diversity of Melanesia. And he discusses the causes of the diversification in 106 contemporary languages of the same common ancestor, known as Proto-Oceanic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sorosoro.org\/en\/the-exceptional-linguistic-diversity-of-vanuatu\">Read blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">New videos<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Returning to <strong>Senegal<\/strong>, we listen to a first <strong>tale <\/strong>in the <strong>Menik <\/strong>language by Aminata Camara, freshly translated : \u00ab<strong> the orphan avenged by the forest <\/strong>\u00bb !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/bedik-tale-1-the-orphan-avenged-by-the-forest\">See video<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">News<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May 19, 2011: <em>The Guardian<\/em> published an article on a <strong>children\u2019s book in Tlingit<\/strong>, an <strong>Alaskan language<\/strong> with only 500 speakers left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/may-19-2011-%C2%AB%C2%A0childrens-book-aims-to-save-dying-alaskan-language-%C2%BB-the-guardian\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May 30 \u2013 June 1, 2011: <strong>UNESCO<\/strong> joint expert group meeting towards guidelines on language policies, Paris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/may-30-june-1-2011-unesco-joint-expert-group-meeting-towards-guidelines-on-language-policies-paris\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Agenda<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">June 4, 2011: the <strong>Polyglot Club<\/strong> offered to party in every language, in Paris\u2026 Those who missed the opportunity can learn more about this network of active multilinguals and its original initiatives !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/june-4-2011-polyglot-party-at-the-wagg-paris\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>June 10, 2011<\/strong>: Application deadline for <strong>linguist position<\/strong> at <strong>Wangka Maya Pilbara<\/strong> Aboriginal Language Centre, Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/june-10-2011-application-deadline-for-linguist-position-at-aboriginal-language-centre-australia\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soropedia<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3 new language description sheets:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/le-quechua-santiagueno\">Santiague\u00f1o Quechua<\/a>, a variety of Quechua spoken in Argentina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/le-svane\">Svan<\/a>, an endangered Kartvelian language from the Georgian Caucasus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/le-leco\">Leco<\/a>, a Bolivian isolate recently rediscovered when it was believed to be extinct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not forgetting\u2026<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/to-dream\">word of the fortnight<\/a> is still awaiting your inspired translations : \u00ab <strong>To Dream<\/strong> \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And an updated <strong>Soroquiz <\/strong>on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\">homepage<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A beautiful week to all of you !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sorosoro crew<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Supported by<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"LogoFondationChirac\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/LogoFondationChirac2-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"LogoFondationChirac\" width=\"75\" height=\"82\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"logo FondationOrange\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo-FondationOrange-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"logo FondationOrange\" width=\"168\" height=\"65\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); 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