Linked with Joênia Batista de Carvalho – Brazil, and with Manifesto for Endangered Languages.
The Foundation for Endangered Languages supports, enables and assists the documentation, protection and promotion of endangered languages. This website announces our varied activities, and includes our newsletter Ogmios and details of our conferences. (Homepage).
Membership details; Proceedings; Grant Applications;
Appeals and News from Endangered Communities;
Call for Papers – FEL XIII: Endangered Languages and History;
Bibliography; Newsletters; Links;
Contact: For general enquiries contact Nicholas Ostler.
Manifesto: … 1.3. The Need for an Organization (scroll down):
- We cannot stem the global forces which are at the root of language decline and loss.
- But we can work to lessen the ignorance which sees language loss as inevitable when it is not, and does not properly value all that will go when a language itself vanishes.
- We can work to see technological developments, such as computing and telecommunications, used to support small communities and their traditions rather than to supplant them.
- And we can work to lessen the damage: o by recording as much as possible of the languages of communities which seem to be in terminal decline; o by emphasizing particular benefits of the diversity still remaining; and o by promoting literacy and language maintenance programmes, to increase the strength and morale of the users of languages in danger. Continuer la lecture de « Foundation for Endangered Languages »