Introducing My Language…

Who speaks it, where, and how?

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

LDC Languages Mapped

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/

Language Information Online1) Click on Browse the Web Version

2) Click on Language Names

Searching Ethnologue3) Click on first letter of your language 4) Click on the name of

your language

Read Ethnologue’s information on your language. Does it seem correct?

Facts about Your Language

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

Mahalo!Speakers: Think about recording the bird story-what happens?Graduate Volunteers: Research literature on your speaker’s language