Endangered Languages Week

Endangered Languages Week

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October 31 - November 4, 2011 with events on Endangered Languages

11/02/2011

Today: the Māori haka at noon! And then at 5 pm, Dr. Mike Cahill will speak on ""Extreme Literacy: Developing an Orthography for an Unwritten Language." And guess what? He wrote his MA thesis here at UTA!

Crisis Talk: Endangered Languages Week Set 10/27/2011

Starting on Monday...unique opportunities for Comanche storytelling and to hear and learn the Māori haka!

Crisis Talk: Endangered Languages Week Set “Language,” mused author Samuel Johnson, “is the dress of thought.” Likewise, if what you wear reflects what you are, then your style of speech indicates your thinking and part of your orig...

Language Hotspots - Taiwan, Northern Philippines 10/26/2011

Did you know that Taiwan is a language hotspot? Come hear more on Monday at noon, when Dr. Jerry Edmondson speaks on ""Taiwan's endangered aboriginal languages" (in the Chemistry & Physics Bldg. 303)

Language Hotspots - Taiwan, Northern Philippines Taiwan and the Philippines hold a huge number of diverse languages. In Taiwan, many of these languages have already been lost, and many of the other aboriginal languages are extremely endangered due to pressure to speak larger languages. In the Philippines, indigenous languages are threatened by the...

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