CTLDC Launch
International official launch of CTLDC now happening worldwide at events in India and North America during January 2012. CTLDC delegates will be at these events informing people of the objectives of the consortium. Please let us know if you are holding an event to also announce the launch of CTLDC.
Upcoming Launches
CTLDC Launch at University of California, Santa Barbara
February 23-24, 2012
Protecting Identity and Diversity: Language and Cultural Rights
Featured speakers include Kristján Árnason (University of Iceland), Claudia Parodi (UCLA) and internationally renowned jurists Fernand De Varennes(Linguapax Laureate), and Pierre Foucher (University of Ottawa). Carol Genetti (UCSB) will open the conference with a talk on training as empowering social action leading to a reclamation of language, knowledge systems, and cultural rights.
Living Our Indigenous Languages: Bringing Together Local, Community and Academic Resources
Saturday, February 11, 2012
First Nations Longhouse, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/indiglanguages
For further information, see website: http://tinyurl.com/LLED-indiglang
CTLDC RSS News
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Venezuela's indigenous university 19 May 2012 19:26 pm The institution, located in 5,000 acres of forestland, teaches ancient wisdom and rights in the modern world. |
A language in Nepal has only one speaker 19 May 2012 05:50 am KATHMANDU: The only surviving speaker of Kusunda - a unique language in western Nepal - has been teaching it to a linguist for the past few months in order to preserve it for posterity. Seventy-five-year old Gyani Maiya Sen's son and daughter did not ... Read |
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Renewed movement for Bodoland 19 May 2012 05:00 am Justifying the demand, it said: "We would like to reiterate that our demand of separate state of Bodoland is a legitimate demand and a constitutional demand which is fully justified and nothing short of a separate state is acceptable to us. Only a separate state of Bodoland can fulfil our political aspiration and only then the safety and security of all communities along with the all-round ... |
Drawn from the very heart of the land, indigenous players star in the heartland 17 May 2012 22:16 pm MANY have tried to measure just how telling an impact indigenous Australians have had on the AFL but, as usual, it's Kevin Sheedy who has the best answer of all. |
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The strange history of the English language 15 May 2012 19:48 pm Linguist David Crystal, author of "The Story of English in 100 Words," analyzes vocabulary from "shellacking" to "Twittersphere." |
Papua New Guinean tongue saved from extinction? 10 May 2012 02:15 am Recently deceased language preserved online An anthropologist from the University of Virginia is using a hybrid of modern communications platforms to resurrect Arapesh, a defunct language from Papua New Guinea.… |
CTLDC is a concerted global response to ensure that the experience and resources being developed can have a broad and lasting impact in communities across the globe.
Increased international cooperation & regional programs are needed to maximize the effective sharing and use of resources
Many endangered-language communities have the desire to implement language documentation and conservation activities, but have limited access to training and resources
The CTLDC aims to advance training in order to provide members of speech communities, and those that support them, with the skill sets, tools, and expertise to make their efforts maximally effective