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| Title | Call for Submissions: Trafford FirstVoices Publishing Program |
| Body | From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-601.html The First People's Cultural Foundation is now accepting submissions for the Trafford FirstVoices Publishing Program 2006. Preference given to completed manuscripts but all applications will receive full consideration. If you are writing a book in your Indigenous language, apply now! Over 6,500 indigenous languages around the world are severely endangered, with the last few remaining native speakers of many dialects dying each year. One publishing company is pledging over $1.6 million to help in the global race to document and teach these languages to youth. The United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) established International Mother Language Day in 1999 to promote and celebrate mother tongues, the most powerful instruments of cultural preservation. UNESCO's goal for the 2006 event is to bring awareness to multilingual education and the role of languages in cyberspace. To advance this important global cause, Trafford Publishing is making a donation to underwrite approximately $1,600,000 in publishing costs over the next ten years. The programme will make available primers for school children, dictionaries and local stories -- one book will be published in each of 650 endangered languages. Trafford has already published primers in 10 Canadian aboriginal endangered languages. Read the complete call at http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-601.html . |
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