Week 1 Introduction and Language Endangerment [27:22]
| Lecturer(s) |
Erenst Anip, Stephanie Locke, Sean Simpson |
| Goals |
- Provide an introduction to and general information about statistics, trends etc. on the problem of language endangerment
- Help participants assess where their language fits in the discussion of endangered languages
- Discuss the importance of language documentation and how we approach the subject in LDTC.
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| Activity |
- Participants, using a language assessment tool (from Endangered Languages Project), will score their own language.
- Afterwards, they will discover what other sources (UNESCO, Ethnologue, ELP, etc.) list about their language.
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| Powerpoint |
[ PPS ] [ PDF ] |
| Example |
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(Recorded on October 00, 2012)
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