introducing my language… who speaks it, where, and how?
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Introducing My Language Place your language on the LDC map
Look online - facts about your language
Discuss language endangerment scale
Share what you have learned on your web page
My Language Facts Exactly where is it spoken? How many people speak it? What are other names for it?
Look up your language online at
http://www.ethnologue.com/
Share about Your Language Start your webpage for LDC using Nvu
Network > Wheel > UhDoc > Templates
Save File as introelena.html (your name) on the Wheel Server
Type in an introduction to yourself and you language, using the Ethnologue
Online Resources Find out about Language Documentation What is Language Documentation? (SOAS)
http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/
How We DocumentFrom SOAS website (http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/)
to create a range of high quality materials to support description of a variety of language phenomena
to enable the recovery of knowledge of the language even if all other sources are lost
to generate resources in support of language maintenance and/or learning
Projects will typically create materials in several types of media: video audio images written (e.g. transcription, description/analysis) metadata (structured data about materials, typically in written
form)
Language Endangerment “Today, there are about 6,500 human languages
and half of them are under threat of extinction within 50 to 100 years. This is a social, cultural and scientific disaster because languages express the unique knowledge, history and worldview of their communities, and each language is a specially evolved variation of the human capacity for communication.” (SOAS, 2005)
Fill out Fishman’s Scale of Language Endangerment with your graduate volunteer Notes about why your language is a certain number
Sharing about Endangerment Type information about language
endangerment into your LDC webpage UNESCO Redbook of Endangered
Languages
http://www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/index.html
Resources for Endangered Languages (MIT) http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/resources/index.html