{"id":70573,"date":"2017-01-31T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=70573\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:52:56","slug":"january-31-2017whats-new-on-sorosoro-org-new-word-in-our-abc-book-focus-on-the-bekwel-language-article-a-whole-movie-in-haida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2017\/01\/january-31-2017whats-new-on-sorosoro-org-new-word-in-our-abc-book-focus-on-the-bekwel-language-article-a-whole-movie-in-haida\/","title":{"rendered":"January 31, 2017What’s new on Sorosoro.org – New word in our ABC book – Focus on the Bekwel language – Article : a whole movie in Ha\u00efda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is what happened on our website during this month of January 2017 !<\/p>\n

ABC book
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A new word has been added to our great ABC book. This time, it’s no less than the beautiful word “peace<\/a><\/strong>“, which now awaits for your translations !<\/p>\n

Soropedia
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Do you know about Bekwel<\/a><\/strong> ? This language, belonging to the Niger-Congo<\/a> family and spoken in Gabon, Cameroon and Congo, is still unrecognized and underrated even in the countries where it is spoken. But despite the poor amount of documentation, and its absence from the media and education, the number of speakers of Bekwel seems to stay constant and the language survives nevertheless !<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the whole, recently updated language sheet !<\/p>\n

News of endangered languages<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the 24th of January, Sorosoro shared an article from CBC Canada<\/em> about a movie that is going to be fully directed, written and played in the Haida language<\/strong> of Canada ! Produced by the same team that gave us the famous Atanarjuat, the fast runner<\/strong><\/em> (a movie entirely played in Inuktitut), The Edge of the Knife<\/strong> will only cast actors from the ha\u00efda community of the Haida Gwaii archipelago from Western Canada !<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Soroquizz
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Which of the following languages is related to the Dari language, spoken in Afghanistan ? Turkish ? Persian ? Arabic ?
\nCome and test your knowledge of the world’s languages on the Soroquiz, on our homepage<\/a>\u00a0 ! All the answers are hiding somewhere on Sorosoro.org…<\/p>\n

Contribution<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorosoro lives on thanks to the contributions of our users.
\nAre you a speaker of an endangered languages that is still missing from our language sheets ? Are you a linguist willing to help us in our efforts to document and promote languages ?<\/p>\n

Contact us now at contact@sorosoro.org<\/a> or through the forms on our website, to share documents or informations about one or several endangered languages !<\/p>\n

We are also in great need of translators in English and Spanish language ;)<\/p>\n

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Don’t forget to follow us on facebook<\/a> and twitter<\/a> !<\/p>\n

Have a great week !<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sorosoro team<\/p>\n