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General Court: European Commission was right to refuse to take the action requested for 'Minority SafePack'
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The General Court confirms the Commission communication refusing to take the action requested in the European citizens’ initiative ‘Minority SafePack - one million signatures for diversity in Europe’ The action already taken by the European Union to emphasise the importance of regional or minority languages and to promote cultural and linguistic diversity is "sufficient to achieve the objectives of that initiative". FUEN President and Member of the European Parliament Loránt Vincze is surprised. "[This] is not consequent with its earlier decisions on this matter. (...) For now, we are waiting for the detailed reasoning of the Court, which we will analyse together with our lawyers, the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) and the Citizens’ Committee to decide what steps to follow. Appealing the judgment is a strong possibility at this point."
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Full digital language equality in multilingual Europe
The Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) held a workshop on the research and development environment of language technologies in the context of EU multilingualism. The first results of the EU-funded project European Language Equality (ELE) were discussed, as well as the aim to achieve full digital language equality in Europe by 2030.
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Sami and Norwegian text on all TINE's milk cartons
Milk cartons in the northern Norwegian province of Troms og Finnmark now also get Sami texts. "Eventually, we will see if we will introduce bilingual milk cartons in other parts of the country as well", said the dairy CEO. With this, Sami becomes part of everyday life, thinks Sami Parliament President Silje Karine Muotka.
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Welsh as a way of working: Assurance Report 2021-22
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The Welsh Language Commissioner has published a new assurance report and it contains a mixed picture with regards to the provision of Welsh language services. The main findings include 32% saying that the opportunities to use the Welsh language in their everyday lives have increased, 84% of organisations' websites are now available in Welsh. But, in contrast, 10% of the Welsh speakers choose not to use the Welsh language. The research shows that more people would be likely to use the Welsh language if organisations improved the way they delivered and ensured Welsh language services.
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Oldest Basque script dating back to the 1st century
The researchers of the Aranzadi science association have discovered an inscription on the bronze 'hand of Irulegi'. It has a four-line inscription and the first word is directly related to today's Basque: 'sorioneku'. The discovery has shown that the people of that area spoke Basque at that time, and were literate. [Gobierno de Navarra, CC BY-SA 3.0]
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ECMRL celebrates its 30th anniversary
On 5 November 1992, 11 member states of the Council of Europe signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. This unique convention applies to about 80 regional or minority languages and promotes their active use in education, justice, administration, media, culture, economic and social life and cross-border cooperation.
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Global Citizenship and Multilingual Competences
Learning materials for secondary school pupils have recently been uploaded on the website of the Global Citizenship and Multilingual Competences project (GCMC), funded by Erasmus+. These teaching units are part of the toolkit that offers ready-to-use materials on a variety of topics related to global citizenship and multilingualism, like sustainability, visual literacy, linguistic diversity and critical reading.
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Call for academic articles in standard Occitan
The Institut d’Estudis Aranesi – Acadèmia Aranesa dera Lengua Occitana will hold a public reflection on the standard of the Occitan language and issues a call for academic papers on its generic conception, function and role. All accepted articles will be published, and will be the subject of work, discussion and reflection at a conference. Accepted articles will receive a compensation of €250.
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Which languages in Europe are in danger of dying out?
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Cartoons in Kurdish help keep language alive
Zarok TV is a children’s channel broadcasting in all dialects of Kurdish. Zarok, which means “child” in Kurdish, plays a public role despite being a private initiative: children can watch 'regular' cartoons, but in their mother tongue. Zarok TV combines Kurmanji with two other Kurdish varieties, Sorani and Zazaki.
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'Language teaching and learning in Ireland'
The language teaching landscape in Ireland has changed considerably over the last 30 years as a result of substantial and sustained inward migration into the country during this period. This article reviews research on language teaching and learning in Ireland published during the period 2012–2021.
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Re-voicing Cultural Landscapes:
intangible cultural heritage of Fryslân, Cornwall and Livonia
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Re-voicing Cultural Landscapes is a collaboration between the universities of Groningen, Falmouth, and Tartu. Mercator/ Fryske Akademy is associated partner. The aim of the project is to research the intangible cultural heritage of local minority language areas Fryslân (Netherlands), Cornwall (UK) and Livonia (Estonia/Latvia), through live cultural events such as theatre, festivals, and ancestry gatherings. These events serve as a lens through which we observe how minority cultural heritage is engaged with by individuals and organisations, the way languages and communities function, and what dynamics are at play during and outside the events. The central question regards the ‘interplay between minority and majority perspectives’, and how identity and insider-outsider dynamics affect these live cultural events.
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Call: Research on Home Language Maintenance
The conference on Research on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development (HOLM 2023) will take place in Tallinn (Estonia) on December 14-16, 2023. Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2023.
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Call: Plurilingualism and teaching-learning
The international conference 'Plurilingualism, teaching-learning, complexity and integrity: epistemological, pedagogical and political perspectives' will be held in Montpellier (France) from 7 to 10, June 2023. The Call for Papers is open (deadline: 15 December).
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Call for Papers: Bridging Global Citizenship
This conference is organised by the universities of Graz, Bologna and Newcastle, Mercator (Fryske Akademy) and NeoSmart Digital, as part of the 'Global Citizenship and Multilingual Competences (GCMC)' Erasmus+ project. It will take place at the University Campus in Graz (Austria) from 16-17 June 2023 (free). Submission deadline: 16 December.
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Call for Papers: Minority Languages in the City
Wanted: Abstracts for papers and posters that focus on minority languages in cities or that compare urban and rural contexts. The conference taskes place on 16-17 March 2023, Leeuwarden (NL). Abstract submission deadline: (1) 16th December/ notification by 6th January 2023. (2) Between 16th December and 20th January 2023: notification by 4th February 2023.
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Call for collaborators:
Cross linguistic acquisition of inflectional morphology
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Professor Ben Ambridge (University of Manchester): "We’re looking for collaborators for a grant application investigating children’s acquisition of inflectional morphology, using judgment and production methods. We have already identified potential collaborators for around 100 languages (see map), but in the interests of maximizing typological diversity, we would still be interested in adding more. Note that, in order to be suitable, the language must have rich verb person/number and/or noun case marking. Given the size of the project, we cannot pay a salary for each language. Rather, we are looking to recruit an already-employed collaborator for each language (e.g., lecturer, researcher, postdoc, PhD student). The grant (if funded) would pay €10,000,- towards testing and traveling expenses."
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16 December 2022, online
LANGSCAPE & ENROPE Online Colloquium #3
Organised by the LANGSCAPE International Research Network & the ENROPE consortium
27 February -3 March 2023, Berlin (DE)
LANGSCAPE & ENROPE Winter School 2023
Organised by the LANGSCAPE International Research Network & the ENROPE consortium
16-17 March 2023, Leeuwarden (NL)
International Conference: Minority Languages in the City
Call for Papers: deadline January 20, 2023.
Organised by Mercator European Research Centre, the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation
17 March 2023, online
LANGSCAPE & ENROPE Online Colloquium
Organised by the LANGSCAPE International Research Network & the ENROPE consortium
22-24 March 2023, Strassbourg (DE)
ECSPM 2023 Symposium: The social role of higher education - Developing the civil society’s awareness and impacting policies on the role of multilingualism in education
Organised by ECSPM
26-28 April 2023, Madrid (ES)
ALTE's 8th International Conference: Language Assessment Fit for the Future
Organised by Association of Language Testers in Europe
23-25 March 2023, Dublin (IE)
Conference on Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Languages
Organised by University College Dublin
4-6 May 2023, Ottawa (Canada)
Colloque du CCERBAL 2023 - Bilinguisme et multilinguisme: Compétences transversales, mobilité et bien-être
* Call for Symposia and Papers is open
Organised by Centre canadien d’études et de recherche en bilinguisme et aménagement linguistique (CCERBAL), Institut de langues officielles et du bilinguisme (ILOB), Université d’Ottawa.
7-10 June 2023, Montpellier (France)
International conference "Plurilingualism, teaching-learning, complexity and integrity: epistemological, pedagogical and political perspectives
Organised by the research group Unité de recherche LHUMAIN (Langage, Humanités, Médiations, Apprentissages, Interactions, Numérique) of the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier
16-17 June 2023, Graz (Austria)
Bridging Global Citizenship and Multilingual Competences Conference
* Call for Papers is open
Organised by the universities of Graz, Bologna and Newcastle, Mercator (Fryske Akademy) and NeoSmart Digital
16 June 2023, online
LANGSCAPE & ENROPE Online Colloquium #4
Organised by the LANGSCAPE International Research Network & the ENROPE consortium
20-24 June 2023, Wales
XIX International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML)
Organised by University of Wales Trinity Saint David
26-28 June 2023, Edinburgh
United Kingdom Language Variation & Change 14 (UKLVC14)
Call for Papers: soon to be published
Organised by Linguistics and English Language / University of Edinburgh
26-30 June 2023, Sydney (Australia) - Hybrid conference
International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14)
* Call for Symposia and Papers is open
Organised by Macquarie University
28-30 June 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark
10th International Conference of the Education and Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Association (EDiLiC)
* Call for Symposia and Papers is open
Organised by University of Copenhagen
17-21 July 2023, Lyon (France)
AILA 2023
* Call for Symposia and Papers is open
Organised by ENS de Lyon
12-13 October 2023, Valletta (Malta)
4th International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME4)
* Call for Papers is open
Organised by University of Malta
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