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| Title | 10th Annual Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference |
| Body | From http://utrecht.elsnet.org/fel/conf2006.html The Foundation for Endangered Languages - Vital Voices Tenth Conference in association with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India. 25-27 October 2006. The Foundation for Endangered Languages, in association with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, will hold its annual 2006 conference in India, home of more than a thousand languages and dialects, and a consciously multilingual policy stance by the Government of India. Although many of these languages enjoy political and economic patronage, others are struggling to survive. Among these strugglers are the languages of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where communities are not only tiny, but also some of the most anciently independent tribes on the planet. The viability of many such small languages is threatened. This year's conference concerns the effects of multilingualism on smaller languages. A crucial question for this conference is how far poorly-conceived language planning policies may actually contribute to environmental imbalance and instability, dangers that are often very little understood. As we understand the effort to revitalize languages, this is no more than the support they need to develop in the face of new demands, including the increased bi- and multi-lingualism coming from globalization, urbanization and language contact. For more information, visit http://utrecht.elsnet.org/fel/conf2006.html . |
| Source | Foundation for Endangered Languages |
| Inputdate | 2006-04-08 19:22:00 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2006-04-08 19:22:00 |
| Expdate | 2006-10-28 00:00:00 |
| Publishdate | 2006-04-10 00:00:00 |
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