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HOW TIMELY
Project Status: Running
The Erasmus+ project "Handling Our Wor(l)ds in Translation: Intersemiotic strategies for Minority and Endangered Languages’ promotion among Youngers" aims to promote the revitalization of Minority and Endangered Languages (MELs) among young people, particularly in secondary schools. The project focuses on using Intermedial/Audio-visual Accessibility & Translation (AVAT) strategies as an innovative pedagogical tool. It intends to counter the decline in the use of MELs and their underrepresentation in the media, especially among teenagers...
SROKA - Serbsku rewitalizaciju organizěrowaś, koordiněrowaś a analyzěrowaś
Project Status: Running
Project Category: Revitalization project / Language Network
Location: Regional
Language: Single language
SROKA (serbsku rewitalizaciju organizěrowaś, koordiněrowaś a analizěrowaś – engl.: Organizing, coordinating and analyzing Lower Sorbian revitalization) is a language planning project for the Lower Sorbian language. Its aim is to bring together civil society, Sorbian and local stakeholders...
The Language School for Cornwall
Project Status: Running
Location: Worldwide
Language: Single language
Ultimately my goal is to support and promote minority rights and human rights, with Cornwall and the Cornish people specifically at the forefront of my work. I am, through my work, raising the issues and awareness of democracy, hegemony and human rights in Cornwall.
Talking Planet
Project Status: Running
Project Category: Language Network
Location: Worldwide
Language: Multilingual
Talking Planet is an animated language resource designed to support indigenous communities in reviving their cultural languages. The simple storylines follow three cute characters - Mimi, Pip and Momo - as they go about their daily routines together...
VLingS
Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Project Status: Completed
Project Category: Linguistics Project
Location: Regional
Language: Multilingual
Over the past decades, it has become obvious that many languages spoken around the world are threatened with extinction. As linguistic diversity is essential to human existence, researchers started focusing on language documentation…
ELA
Endangered Language Alliance
Project Status: Running
Project Category: Language Network/Map
Location: Worldwide
Language: Multilingual
Founded in 2010, the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) is a non-profit dedicated to documenting Indigenous, minority, and endangered languages, supporting linguistic diversity in New York City and beyond.
VIEWS
Project Status: Running
Project Category: EU-funded linguistics project
Location: Worldwide
Language: Multilingual
We live in a world where thousands of languages are in danger of extinction – and writing has a huge role to play, both in supporting the continued use of threatened languages and as a threatened element of culture in its own right.
Mercator European Research Centre
Project Status: Running
Project Category: Research Centre
Location: Worldwide
Language: Multilingual
The European Mercator Network connects multilingual communities across Europe, promoting knowledge sharing and facilitating structured exchange of best practice and cutting edge initiatives through its programme of activities.
ELP
(Endangered Languages Project)
Project Status: Running
Project Category: Language Network/Map
Location: Worldwide
Language: Multilingual
The goal of the Endangered Languages Project is to foster exchange of information related to at-risk languages. It serves as an online resource for samples and research on endangered languages.
Bilingualism Matters
Project Status: Running
Project Category: Multilingualism
Location: Worldwide
Language: Multilingual
Bilingualism Matters is a research and information centre at the University of Edinburgh, founded by Prof. Antonella Sorace in 2008. We study bilingualism and language learning, and communicate what we know...
Rising Voices
Project Status: Running
Project Category: Language Network
Location: Worldwide
Language: Multilingual
Helping bring new voices from new communities and speaking endangered or indigenous languages to the global conversation by facilitating the creation of peer learning networks to leverage the internet and digital media...
ENACT
Project Status: Running
Project Category: Intercultural Learning
Location: Worldwide
Language: Multilingual
The ENACT project is developing a web app to bring culture to life by employing an innovative task-based digital learning pedagogy offering a real-world, interactive learning experience. It aims to foster intercultural and intergenerational social cohesion...