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

[fpohlmann <fpo...@ba...>]

>Frank, can you follow up with SOAS, on the issue, may be we can benefit
>through this process.

In that case I would be grateful, if the good people on this list would make 
up a few suggestions as to which issues I could raise with them?

Apart from asking them about the state of their own project, of course.

-Frank

>
>Regards
>
>vijay
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "fpohlmann" <fpo...@ba...>
>To: "Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya" <vi...@sr...>;
><Ind...@li...>;
><Ind...@li...>;
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>Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:29 PM
>Subject: RE: [Indic-computing-devel] Fw: Endangered Languages Project
>
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>> No problem, BUT:
>>
>> SOAS is pretty much on vacations right now. Try the 2nd week of September!
>>
>> -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 history.
>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 the
>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 threat
>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 SOAS
>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 and
>> >> deepen knowledge of endangered languages through specially designed
>> >courses
>> >> in field linguistics generally and endangered languages in particular
>as
>> >> well as by co-ordinating scholarly activity, publicity and consultation
>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 Africa
>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 study
>of
>> >> endangered languages.
>> >>
>> >> SOAS and the Fund together will underwrite the infrastructure to manage
>> >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 ensure
>that
>> >> full knowledge of a language and its use are preserved will vary, but
>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 threatened,
>> >> disappear forever. No sum is too small, and all money donated will go
>> >> 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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