Re: [Indic-computing-standards] RE: [Indic-computing-devel] Fw: Endangered Languages Project

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My guess is that this effort concentrates on visual anthropology or some
such academic branch but no harm in opening a dialogue.

Venky

----- Original Message -----
From: "fpohlmann" <fpo...@ba...>
To: "Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya" <vi...@sr...>;
<Ind...@li...>;
<Ind...@li...>;
<mal...@ya...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:29 PM
Subject: [Indic-computing-standards] RE: [Indic-computing-devel] Fw:
Endangered Languages Project

> No problem, BUT:
>
> SOAS is pretty much on vacations right now. Try the 2nd week of Septemb=
er!
>
> -Frank
>
> >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Original Message From "Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya"
<vi...@sr...>
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> >Hi,
> >
> >Please see this, very interesting proposasition, might be we can think=
 of
> >taking the cause of Indic - Project to them.
> >
> >vijay
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <in...@el...>
> >To: "Funknet" <fu...@li...>; "Linguist"
> ><lin...@un...>; "Endangered Languages"
> ><end...@ca...>; "Lagb Essex"
> ><la...@es...>; "LGShift" <lg...@li...>
> >Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 9:19 AM
> >Subject: Endangered Languages Project
> >
> >
> >> Press Release
> >>
> >> To help explore and record linguistic diversity across the globe, a
> >British
> >> foundation has provided =A320,000,000 over ten years to create an
> >> international scholarly program to study endangered languages.
> >>
> >> The scale of the funding is commensurate with the urgent--and
> >> enormous--threat to the world's linguistic diversity. Many of the
> >languages
> >> that will be studied are linguistic isolates. All are very nearly
extinct.
> >> They have never been adequately analysed or recorded, and they are
> >typically
> >> spoken only by a few elderly people. These languages--and their
> >> speakers--deserve to be remembered, and to take their place in histo=
ry.
At
> >> the same time, this worldwide project to preserve crucial knowledge
about
> >> the world's linguistic heritage will vitally illuminate the history =
of
how
> >> humanity settled the earth.
> >>
> >> The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund aims to support research in the
> >> humanities and the social sciences. This grant, together with other
family
> >> benefactions amounting to many millions of pounds, is intended by th=
e
Hans
> >> Rausing family to help British universities maintain the highest
standards
> >> of academic scholarship.
> >>
> >> When deciding to secure the participation of SOAS in this program--a
> >process
> >> that took many months of consultation--the Fund's trustees expressed
the
> >> greatest confidence in the achievements and potential of the School,
and
> >in
> >> enthusiasm and dedication of its scholars and leaders. The trustees
were
> >> impressed by the fit between their own profound concern at the threa=
t
to
> >> knowledge of linguistic and cultural diversity globally, and SOAS's
> >> long-standing and distinguished study of small languages in Africa,
Asia,
> >> the Middle East and elsewhere. The Fund's trustees also share with S=
OAS
a
> >> commitment to the highest ethical standards when co-operating with
small
> >> language communities-- people who are often marginalized and
dispossessed.
> >>
> >> Part of the grant will underwrite an academic programme within SOAS,
> >> utilising SOAS's staff and facilities. It will train field-workers a=
nd
> >> deepen knowledge of endangered languages through specially designed
> >courses
> >> in field linguistics generally and endangered languages in particula=
r
as
> >> well as by co-ordinating scholarly activity, publicity and consultat=
ion
in
> >> the field.  But the bulk of the fund will be administered by SOAS to
> >provide
> >> grants to scholars throughout the world to document and analyse
endangered
> >> languages.
> >>
> >> Professor Colin Bundy, Director and Principal of SOAS, voiced
unqualified
> >> delight at the news of the award.  "SOAS was founded in 1916 as a
> >specialist
> >> institution for the study of languages in Asia, and later in Africa.
We
> >> created the first British linguistics department (in 1932) and our
Library
> >> was identified in 1961 as a national resource for the study of Afric=
a
and
> >> Asia.  Our history, mission and ethos equip us for this visionary
> >project."
> >> He stressed that in addition to the School's regionally defined
> >departments
> >> concentrating on language and culture its range of disciplinary
> >> departments - such as anthropology, history, linguistics - offered a
rich
> >> opportunity for becoming a world leader in the documentation and stu=
dy
of
> >> endangered languages.
> >>
> >> SOAS and the Fund together will underwrite the infrastructure to man=
age
> >this
> >> grants programs. This means that other families, foundations and
companies
> >> that would like to donate to this cause, will have the security of
knowing
> >> that 100% of their money goes directly to the recording and study of
> >nearly
> >> extinct languages.  The costs of research and documentation to ensur=
e
that
> >> full knowledge of a language and its use are preserved will vary, bu=
t
the
> >> average is about =A3150,000: we urge all readers of this to give
generously
> >to
> >> this profoundly important cause--before those thousands of the world=
's
> >> languages (well over 50% of the total) that are now highly threatene=
d,
> >> disappear forever. No sum is too small, and all money donated will g=
o
> >> directly, fully, and only to the cause of recording near-extinct
> >> languages--and thus save a unique world heritage.
> >>
> >> www.eldp.soas.ac.uk
> >>
> >> Direct payments to SOAS can be made direct to the School's bank at:
> >>
> >> National Westminster Bank plc
> >> 94 Moorgate
> >> London EC2M 6XT
> >> Sort Code: 56-00-23 Account No: 08622655
> >>
> >> All general enquiries should be addressed to Mary O'Shea at SOAS on
07898
> >> 4075 or mo...@so...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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