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| Title | International Mother Language Day Was February 21st |
| Body | Last Monday was International Mother Language Day. Here are some articles that remind us all of the importance of our first language, the difficulty many minority languages have to survive, and what’s being done in support of mother languages: United Nations webpage http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday UNESCO highlights IT's role in protecting mother languages http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-02/18/c_13737257.htm Forty one ethnic group languages under threat in China http://www.phbeta.com/world/forty-one-ethnic-group-languages-under-threat-in-china Half of living languages face extinction http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/21/endangered-languages-research-project Who wants to lose their mother tongue? http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/who-wants-lose-their-mother-tongue-0 UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap.html Linguistic Expert in Africa: Non documented languages will soon fade out http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/201102/61603.asp Linguistic students learn to preserve languages through revitalization courses http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.php/news/university/921-linguistic-students-learn-to-preserve-languages-through-revitalization-courses National chief in Canada calls for language revitalization http://www.wawataynews.ca/archive/all/2011/2/23/national-chief-calls-language-revitalization_21118 |
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