This session will have Zoom auto-captioning available.Sustaining Minoritized Languages of Europe (SMiLE) II: Impact from case studies in community responses to revitalization (Mary Linn):
•This paper focuses on the impact of the SMiLE ethnolinguistic research in six European communities, using critical understanding, connecting people and communities, increased educational opportunities, and public awareness to measure impact. The paper concludes with the importance of gathering and showing community impact as a research outcome. [
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Developing language learning tools for Nobiin (Nubantood Khalil, Bertille Baron):
•Nobiin is an endangered Nilo-Saharan language indigenous to southern Egypt and northern Sudan. This project participates in revitalizing the language by developing a series of online-based and easily accessible learning materials to facilitate the learning of Nobiin and contribute to its promotion among heritage speakers and language enthusiasts. [
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From Mayrinax Atayal to Matu'uwal: Recognizing relationships among language activists, language community and documentary linguist in the documentation of a well-studied" Formosan language (Yi-Yang Cheng):
•We introduce a collaborative project led by a Matu’uwal (Atayalic, Austronesian) language activist, who is both a language teacher and an amateur Facebook vlogger. The project showcases a model that connects parties contributing to the shared goal of preserving naturalistic speech records from a relatively “well-studied” indigenous language of Taiwan. [
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