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Enduring Voices Media Skills Workshop in Chile, Jan 7-11, 2013

We are pleased to announce we are teaming up with National Geographic to produce a digital media skills workshop for speakers of Latin American endangered languages.

The event is called “Voces Duraderas” (part of our “Enduring Voices Project“) and it will take place from January 7th to 11th, in Santiago, Chile. Twelve indigenous participants from seven different countries will be taking part in the workshop. We are really looking forward to this! The program (in Spanish) is available here.

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And, we are happy that our upcoming Latin American workshop has already received some great press coverage! Read about it in TIME Magazine’s Newsfeed, This is Chile (Chile’s official website), and on the Rising Voices blog.

ImagePhoto caption from “This is Chile” article about the workshop.

Thanks for reading and supporting endangered language documentation!

If you are in Santiago, feel free to join us for the closing day of the workshop:

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Dr. Gregory Anderson publishes “Auxiliary verb constructions in the languages of Africa”

Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson recently published “Auxiliary verb constructions in the languages of Africa” in Studies in African Linguistics. This mammoth 409-page study examines verbs from over 500 African languages! Here is Anderson when he was doing linguistic fieldwork in Nigeria; he is photographed with the ruler of Alesa clan, HRH Emere Emperor John D. Nkpe II, Onch Alesa X (Eleme LGA, Rivers State, Nigeria).

ImageThis past week, Dr. Anderson spoke about his research on African languages at an international linguistics conference in Paris,  “Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction“. Here is the flyer for the event:

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His presentation was entitled “S/TAM/P morphs (Portmanteau subject/TAM/polarity morphs) in Niger-Congo languages” and his abstract can be found with the rest of the participants abstracts on the conference website.

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Siletz Talking Dictionary featured in New York Times article

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At Living Tongues Institute, we have collaborated with the Siletz Dee-ni tribe in Oregon for the past 7 years, to create the Siletz Dee-ni Talking Dictionary. This project, along with other Siletz language revitalization efforts, was recently featured in the New York Times. Check out the full article here. We recommend listening to the audio clips on the left side of the screen, so you can hear Bud Lane’s English translations of some very interesting Siletz terms!

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“Vanishing Voices” in National Geographic Magazine, July 2012

Great news! An in-depth article about endangered languages is in this month’s issue of National Geographic Magazine. Written by journalist Russ Rymer, with amazing images by photographer Lynn Johnson, the article explores global language loss, with profiles on language revitalization efforts among speakers of languages such as Tuvan, Aka, Chemehuevi, Wintu, Euchee and Seri.

Living Tongues Director Dr. Gregory D.S. Anderson and Director of Research Dr. K. David Harrison were interviewed for the piece, and their documentation work in Arunachal Pradesh (India), among Aka speakers, is discussed. Pick up a copy in news stands before the end of the month! Here is the cover, which features coverage on Easter Island, and in the top left-hand area, you can see that “Saving Lost Languages” is one of the featured topics of the issue.

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