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February 2012

22: Art in Paradise: Getting Gaelic; Study: Vast majority of EU citizens are marginalized by dominance of English language; Whoopensocker dictionary of American dialect completed after 50 years; Hangeul and Its Inventor Get Global Academic Attention; Book speaks up for Indigenous language; Putting Maori stories into print; New Tlingit “encyclopedia” baffling to scholars, speakers; Researchers Rewrite Textbook On Location of Brain's Speech Processing Center; Wrexham pub hopes to encourage Welsh speakers; Korean expert fears jawi script increasingly being forgotten; First Turkish-Spanish/Spanish-Turkish dictionary with phonetic transcription presented at University of the Basque Country; U of A scientists know why the caged bird sings; Urban slang 'more logical' form of German; A pahticulah way of talking; Is the Texas twang history? (video); Swansea University's Welsh Language Scheme approved; Je Speak Inuktitut; Ojibwe language goes online; Diné language conference draws dozens; Prof seeks key to language fluency; Teaching Method Exploits Similarities of Romance Languages; Varsity centre works on apps for Tamil; Battle of survival: Watching the tongues slip into extinction; Menominee Language Controversy (video); Two years after Andaman tribe dies, another ‘faces extinction’ (video); Prenatal Testosterone Linked to Increased Risk of Language Delay for Male Infants, Study Shows; Elder teaches Secwepemc; With the verve of words: Learning foreign languages in Iran; The rise of Maltenglish; Elders track lost Indigenous languages; Lost in translation; Speech Fillers Actually Improve Listener Recall; Private papers want Dzongkha out; Jersey language translation for Alice in Wonderland (audio); Government to work harder to preserve endangered aboriginal tongues; Translation specialist set on preserving Cherokee language; Mother tongue; Bengali Language Day: Celebrating A Universal Human Right; On agenda: Armenian linguists say the state of mother tongue in the country should be improved; Border melts as India, Bangladesh celebrate Mother Language Day
21: Piecing together region's language puzzle (audio)
20: Pundits of Urdu fail to convince Senate to make it official language; Young children show gift for multiple languages, says U of C study; School an impetus: principal; First Nations want to keep language alive; Xhosa, Zulu being axed at state schools; Native American Language School Hopes To Save Dying Language (video); North Coast tribes strive to keep Pomo language alive; Video: Digital Tools Help Save Endangered Languages - AAAS; Digital tools can save languages from extinction: Scientist; Latvians Reject Russian in Language Poll; Keeping Lakota alive; Cyber zoo to preserve endangered languages
18: Akaka commemorates ‘Month of the Hawaiian Language’; Trilingual Lanka, recipe for unity; How Americans Have Reshaped Language; Latvia votes: Is Russian our language, too?; Latvia: The Hot Month of February; Preserving a native tongue: Tribe works to maintain elders' language (video); Expert: New York accent on the wane
17: Native American Languages Could Count For Class Credit; The advantage of ambiguity; Cambridge tech firm BBN lands Army contract to develop instant translation program; South Africa's Deaf Call For Sign Language To Be Made Official Language; Zimbabwe: Keeping Tonga Language Alive; Siri may get Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Russian language support in March; Feds braced for lawsuit demanding official status for aboriginal languages: documents; Rare language stays alive in Wisconsin counties
16: Basque and Welsh: fighting to keep languages alive (video); Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa; CBSE drops Chinese after teachers fail to learn it; Professor's bequest revives Greek at Glasgow; Russian language passion gaining momentum in Latvia (audio); Row erupts over language policy; Canadian researchers study text messages as language form; Kiwis split on teaching Te Reo - survey; Tunisians Debate Role of Arabic Language in National Politics; Video calls Basque-Americans to learn Basque, join the conversation; From frozen Lapland to Hebrew University; Great Russia's divine nationalistic mission; High-tech bid to save ancient Top End language; Indian languages losing their cyber-vitality
15: Alutiiq Language on the Mend (audio); Australian researcher helping preserve PNG languages (audio); Ecuador to start radio broadcasts in Amazonian languages; Some Bemidji classrooms to get Ojibwe name signs; Wear this glove to learn sign language (video); Labour Party proposes law on public use of Croatian language; A New Era for Newry Gaels; Land of the Rising Zun: Yiddish to Japanese Dictionary Has 28,000 Entries; Students talk over new language plan; First Fanti Dictionary launched in Accra; UST collection of ancient scripts in ‘baybayin’ syllabary shown to public; Only in America? Republican candidates on hot seat for knowing foreign languages; Federal government getting out of the language training business; 310 Indian Languages Are Near Extinction; Okla. man shares love of Choctaw language
13: Native Languages Stay Alive on Web; Sheffield's dictionary triumph; Icelandic sign language open to all on new website; Languages under threat as Sami migrate south; The worldliness of Maltese; Spotlight: Wilton's Latin & Greek Curriculum

January 2012

14: The Loneliness of the Icelandic Translator
13: Endangered Alphabets; Any words against Russian official language status in Kyrgyzstan will lead to protests and riots – Irina Karamushkina
12: Language hurdle trips up Indonesian nurses; 'We want to spread importance of Hindi on national level'; Activist Simon Brooks calls for new Welsh language pressure group; Mind your language; Comics and Jokes Are Serious Teaching Tools for Linguists; Call to promote Assamese language; Govt to step up efforts to promote ancient language Sanskrit; Omron smartphone app comes close to instantaneous text translations; US soldier who learned Irish on the internet is set for TG4; Armenian-language reporting gains steam; How My Kids Lost and Found Their Native Language; The History (and Future) of Braille
11: Ancient Language Gets Extended Life In Iraq; East Timor: A Former Colony Mulls the Politics of Teaching Portuguese; Study: Gestures help language learning; Can TG4 recapture some good feeling about Irish?; Džíny, hamburgry and komputry: is Czech under threat from English? (audio); 900 languages to be represented at Bhasha Vasudha; Tolkien And Made Up Languages From Fiction; Referendum to determine the status of Russian language in Latvia; Guernsey French beginners guide launched; First Aboriginal language graduates; Queens Libraries Speak the Mother Tongue; KP assembly passes bill to promote regional languages; Gingrich Sends an E-mail in Spanish, Asking for Support in Iowa; Last chance to comment on the Highland Council's Gaelic Language Plan; Town Asks Candidate to Prove English Proficiency; Hip-Hop Music as Language Instruction; How the Maltese heart beats
10: Isles varsity eyes being global Kiswahili centre of excellence; Irish language community slam merger of Language Commissioner; Finally -- even stocious loopers will be able to natter as Gaeilge; Language Intolerance in Ukraine; Call to protect Telugu language; Portuguese spelling reform takes effect; Welsh Language Society 'radical' change in 50th year; Cracking the Konkani code; Keep Chamorro language from dying; MPs want Sindhi as lingua franca; China develops minority language translation software; Bilingualism fund receives more than S$58m in donations
9: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners (interview); Mandatory Turkish puts Kurdish pupils at disadvantage; Russian language teaching blossoms in India; Literature the Ojibwe Way: Erdrich Sisters’ Wiigwaas Press Helps Preserve Ojibwemowin; Competition for Estonian-Latvian and Latvian-Estonian translation prize declared open; Language specialists racing to save Cherokee language; The Deafening Silence; The gift of tongues: What makes some people learn language after language?; Schools turn to Chinese language classes with help of Chinese government (audio)
3: There’s life left in the Norfolk dialect; Singing the National Anthem in their Own Language (video); Preserving language a must, say experts; K.N.O. Dharmadasa - linguist who doesn't rest on his laurels; Cultivating culture for Tsartlip kids

December 2011

31: Spend a year with Pennsylvania Dutch; FNC tightens up translation bill; Children don't give words special power to categorize their world
30: President encouraging Georgian language amongst ethnic minorities in the regions; After Kim Jong Il’s death, a Korean language class shifts format; To promote democracy, artist taps into power of Egyptian dialect; 'Sheng' dims 2011 KCPE performance in main languages; Arabic language flourishing in China; Resurrection of Kashmiri Language; This Book Will Teach You The Wookiee Language (video)
28: Jamaica's patois Bible: The word of God in creole (video)
27: China to open 251 schools in Tibet to teach Mandarin, Tibetan; Language divide rocks House, official status row breaks out; A Perspective on Students in India Using Their English Language Skills to Get Top Jobs; Karmapa reviving use of Sanskrit in spiritual order; He'll always have Paris; Nigerian journalists to be taught French; Achievements Abound for Native American Languages in 2011; Kosli Language: A Perspective on Its Origin, Evolution and Distinction; Go back to where I came from? What, Newport?; At Christmas, a Maronite Christian Village in Israel Revives the Language Spoken by Jesus Christ (video); After Gaddafi, Libya's Amazigh demand recognition; The adventures of the Russian language in Latvia; Medicare agency to stop talking to immigrants in English; For Some, Learning English is Business; Attorney General drops police language appeal
26: Robert Easton dies at 81; Henry Higgins of Hollywood; YÖK allows Tunceli University to teach Kurdish-language classes; Moldova’s Autonomy wants to speak Russian; Saeima stops bill to make Russian official; issue heads to referendum; Mayor insists Montreal firmly French; A new script; Rare Cuneiform Script Found on Island of Malta
25: Reviving The Hawaiian Language
22: Will Pakistan's Language Be Lost in Texting Translation? (audio); Gevalt! US college students lead surprise Yiddish revival; SA Languages Bill 2011 falls short - FW de Klerk Foundation; Twitter Adds Danish, Finnish, Norwegian And Polish, Now Supports 21 Different Languages; First Physical Evidence Bilingualism Delays Onset of Alzheimer's Symptoms; Folic Acid in Early Pregnancy Associated With Reduced Risk of Severe Language Delay in Children; Chinese is the new English; Distinguished Professor: Thomas G. Bever, Linguistics (video); A Christmas tale that puts language in the picture; French resist new spelling rules; Israeli Arabs Enter Jewish Classrooms; Language, the basis of unity and conflict; Vatican hosts unusual Christmas Latin test; Venice Commission lambastes “language bill”
21: Apple's Siri Still Hates the British. And Southerners; Speak Any Language With New Real-Time Voice Translation; The Great Welsh Songwriters Strike; We should enthusiastically embrace French language in Louisiana; VIETNAM: Boosting education for ethnic minority children
20: Mwangwego script gets international recognition; Arohatia te reo theme for 2012 Maori language week 2012; Nepali Language day observed; Tribal languages: 90 teachers appointed; Chinese immersion schools growing in popularity; Mother Tongue; 'Goan Liberation helped liberate Konkani language as well'; Guangdong Media Told to Apply to Talk Cantonese; English Needs No Protection; CM inaugurates Centre of Excellence for Kannada; Learning English remains a hard nut to crack
18: Language referendum to be pointless, but potentially harmful to Latvia; Irish language working for local businesses; Mom Turned Author Creates Aboriginal Children's Character
17: Lawmaker: Venice Commission approves of bill on language policy; Learn tourists’ languages – Masidi; Why Thailand's children need tablet computers; Judge Upholds Rule that Immigrants to UK Know English; Texting Glove for the hearing impaired (video); Belgian Politician To Britain: You Snub EU, We Europeans Stop Speaking English; Irish language project beats target; 'Ambitious' Gaelic plan welcomed by Education Committee
16: Technology To Bridge Language Barriers for Doctors, Patients; English-Hinglish, Angrezi-Fangrezi; English-only town triggers hot debate; 'Common Turkic language does not mean loss of native languages by peoples'; Make learning te reo New Year's resolution; American Sign Language gets hands-down approval; Found in Translation: Professor Shares Japanese Literary Wealth Through Arduous Translation Projects; Word Play: The Language Wars
15: Slovakian startup Lingibli makes language learning QR code friendly; Merriam-Webster picks ‘pragmatic’ as Word of Year; Saeima votes against Harmony Center's “compromise amendments” on state language; 'Korean language scientifically superior'; A Brief Guide to Fictional Languages in Literature; The Standard Akan Language; Attitude the main threat to local languages – professor; Great IDEA:International Dialects of English Archive Clocks One Million Hits Annually; National language policy: President wants total implementation; Google Translate Updated, Now Allows For Handwriting Recognition In Seven Different Languages; Salish Numbers Book Helps Kids Learn Native Language; Urdu language facing official apathy: State Cong Chief; Shelf-Promotion: Famed Novelist Louise Erdrich's Bookstore Stocks Great Native Books
14: If our future is in Europe, we have to talk the talk; UN in Armenia Marks Arabic Language Day; 169 local languages likely to extinct: Researcher; Thousands speak out over languages-teaching cuts; IndigiTUBE an outback video star (audio); Making a world of difference; Inter-language translation project taken up; ‘A win for the Irish language’; Nollaig Shona Duit; Cost of Irish translation rises; Gallaudet University Opens New Brain and Language Laboratory; Giving evidence; New words are the new cool thanks to social media
13: From the Old Written to the New Spoken; Kyrgyzstan: Online Crowdsourcing Project Wades into Language Politics; Filipinos warned about unlicensed Norwegian language schools in country; Rosetta Throne: Learn to Speak Dothraki (audio); Infographic Of The Day: America's Problem With Second Languages; Québec solidaire wants language law; Portugese man fired for not speaking Polish; Speakers Bureau keeps Cherokee language active; Signals are good as uni to offer sign language degree; A non-Creole Jamaica is a false concept
12: The Talkley Award – a word nerd's night of nights; Arizona has most Indian language speakers; Before leading PPP, Bilawal must learn Urdu, Sindhi; Concocted Languages to Make Other Worlds Feel Real (video, audio)
11: Sign language in curriculum urged; Syria plans Persian language and literature Olympiad
10: 'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into U.S. Speech; ‘Pulled up’ at McD’s for writing cheque in Maori; The ancient French dialect, patois, is now taught in Valais school (video); Translator/interpreter becomes top profession for 2012; Dialects: Reveling in Linguistic Freedom; Elections officials grapple with new Native American language rule; The mechanism behind bilinguals' creativity
9: Babies Track Word Patterns Long Before Word-Learning Starts; Everyone Speaks Text Message; New head of Manx language teaching appointed; They're back: Quebec language debates revived as sovereignty movement recedes; Learning Klingon all in a day's work for actress; Romansh dialects carry the day in Graubünden; Survival of the fittest: Linguistic evolution in practice; Osun to establish Yoruba Academy
8: Gujaratis know the language of business; learn Chinese, Japanese; Ladino: The “other” Spanish, is dying but saved a life; Osh Mulls Ban on Uzbek-Language Schools; Moy Tir na nOgs involved in Irish Language revival; The value of classical languages; Yahoo Mail Adds Support for 8 Indian Languages, Too Late?; Book Review 222: Alphabeta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World; Guatemalan sets sights on translating the Web; Makers of Android keyboard SwiftKey get $2.4M for language technology; Island language in a sea of change (audio)
7: NSU offers Cherokee language program; NI minister wants 1,000 new Irish language speakers by 2015 (audio); Wales 'losing 3,000 fluent Welsh speakers every year'; Yiddish classes to resume this coming spring; Design students immerse themselves in Gaelic; Learning support in Gaelic lacking, MSPs told; Harvesting learning from the Dakota Language Revitalization Citizen Health Action Team; City dialect to get voice on subway; Language revitalization through free software: the case of Aragonese
6: Language may be dominant social marker for young children; Immersion School approved for charter school; Our ancestors speak out after 3 million years; News accompanied by sign language to be mandatory for all Armenian TV channels; Michael Krauss / Linguist (interview); The great anglo panic of 2011; Accented French latest target of language guardians; Dating the world’s language families; A First World War mystery in Fredericton is solved; Book of Dreams: Devices would help pair communicate; The CSDM's French-only dictum is at odds with global realities; Shared stories enhance heritage; The chimpanzee who sees sounds; Why teaching Chinese is a priority in Delaware
5: Language Problem; Obama signs executive order supporting Native American Languages; Linguistic Respect for the People Once Derided as Gypsies (video); Language limits jobs, health care for new Burmese refugees; Google launches Voice Search in Arabic on iOS and Android; Trouble understanding Ozzy? Finally, an iPhone app that can decipher the thickest Brummie accent; ASL program grows, works for recognition; ‘Prefer 'hinglish' over pure Hindi’ Govt; Anger at Irish sign vote; Which is to be Malta’s learning language; Azerbaijani school directors in Georgia study Georgian; Alutiiq Consortium hosts Immersion A-Z workshop; Pathans in Kashmir Preserve Identity; Variety of languages challenges, enriches schools; Technology to Reverse 'Curse of Babel?'; Deaf mentors teach families with hearing-impaired children to use sign language; Indigenous dictionary released on Straddie; South Sudan Republic, a Country Without One Common Language for All Tribes to Use; Regional accents prove point of pride, prejudice; How Siri Works: iPhone's 'Brain' Comes from Natural Language Processing, Stanford Professors to Teach Free Online Course; Gozitan author represents Malta in the ‘City of Proverbs’; China to standardize sign language, Braille; Sign language Santa fulfills wishes for hearing-impaired (video)
4: Fascinating insight into Pictish culture; Death of a language; Kokborok language film Yarwng to get Paris screening; The funniest, most bizarre and downright inept mistranslations on Wales' highways released in book; Translators Without Borders Prepares to Bridge the Last Language Mile; NB police must speak both official languages, court says; Palula Vocabulary: 7th book of Cultural and Language Series; OPINION: The Garifuna people should establish an international language and arts institute
3: Official language status for sign language demanded; 'Prophet of God' claims mysterious manuscript's code has been cracked; December 3rd: 'International Day of the Basque Language'; The secret language of bros: Inside the dudeification of English; Row over Irish language festive sign (video); Hack Your Gadgets and Home to Teach Yourself a New Language
2: Welsh Language Commissioner to start work in February; Group makes case for use of indigenous languages; Time for a linguistic policy - minister; Official languages plan unveiled; New social network created for Irish speakers
1: Rizal hosts festival reviving ancient Filipino writing system of Baybayin; Language inquisition: Estonia gets tough on Russian speakers; Wyn Thomas: Bangor University leads on bilingualism; A word in your ear: Motherese and baby language (audio); ‘Is That a Fish in Your Ear?’: Translations brought to light; Symposium highlights Pacific language needs; Russian to be official language in Latvia; Law requires kids to take more Chamorro classes; Alaskan educators tour PSJA’s dual-language program (video)

November 2011

30: Digitization of the Eritrean Sign Language; Berber Revival's First Big Sell: Convince Libyans They're All Berbers; The communicative brain; CPLP: Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture – Canada; Mysterious Voynich Manuscript gets digitised online; The Internet: A lifeboat for endangered languages?; From Klingon to Na'vi: Delving into made-up languages; The lost decade: learning Asian languages; Strictly Javanese at language congress; Kawaiisu Project receives Governor's Historic Preservation Award; Belgian politicians row over "linguistic sex" of would-be leader; A Brief History of Singing in Invented Languages; Bilingual Siblings: Our ‘Preferred’ Language; Is Speech Recognition Ready for Every Day Use?; Is There a Central Brain Area for Hearing Melodies and Speech Cues? Still an Open Question; Language test as a smartphone app
29: Website Enlists Crowds to Analyze Whale Songs; Volunteers begin typing 60K Hawaiian-language newspaper pages for preservation project; Treaty and te reo priority for new Greens Maori MP; Initiative to make Russian an official language closes in on target; Supporting the Languages of India; Step up efforts to document words, Bidayuhs urged; Pennsylvania's dialects are as varied as its downtowns -- and dahntahns; Internet domain names in Indian languages soon; Online Activism To Save Chakma Language; What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Communicating With Other Cultures; Raising bilingual children; After Centuries of Oppression, a Libyan Minority Sees Hope in Qaddafi's Fall; Exposure to Misspellings Confuses Spelling Proficiency; Navajo Code: Powerful As Any Weapon In WWII? (audio); It feels good to be able to speak the mother tongue; A rebuttal to ‘harmful’ English education; Hebrew tweets jump 150%: Israelis tweet three times more often in English than in Hebrew; Weighing bilingualism; Shakespeare In Kashmiri
28: OED to consider adding this year's trending Tech word; Russian, but not English still remains an international language for Kyrgyzstan - Roza Otunbayeva; Province makes resources available for Gaelic language studies; Mother language education
27: Thousands learning the Irish language in the United States - VIDEO; Académie Française challenged to update language with fresh bon mots; No students enroll in Kurdish language courses at Tunceli University; Do politicians need to speak proper English?; Pass the crumpets, please; National University publishes first ever Dhivehi dictionary; Mind your language; “A de pan kam”: Language “corruption” or “enrichment”?
26: Panjim: Better treatment to Konkani in Roman Script demanded; Bollywood learning new languages for the South; International Urdu Conference concludes
25: Book Review: You Are What You Speak; Cambridge University researcher spends year in Greenland (video); A Language Comes Home for Thanksgiving; No recess from French as Montreal schools to scan playground chatter; Gullah-language Bible now on audio CDs; Sign language teacher Amanda Smith wins national award; Czech linguist comes back to Vietnam; Books for children launched; CRTC tells French radio to limit English music montages; Twitter study reveals explosion in Arabic 'tweeting'; Australia Includes Sign Language in National Curriculum; Startup works Arabic script into your furnishings
24: 50, 100, 1000 words for snow: Does the language we speak affect how we think?; MIT grad student develops internet lie detector using natural language processing; After a month, Siri finds her voice; Translating ancient manuscripts via crowdsourcing; Zambian farmers learn to write their Shanjo language; How the brain strings words into sentences; Sri Lanka looks for national unification through language; Rescue it, or let it run its course?; Call to bring back bilingual record of Assembly meetings; Local researcher proposes National Language Day; The Politics of Digitizing Hawaiian language newspapers
23: University of Calgary: Learning languages from Harry Potter; Englishmen develop love for Hindi; BC abandons plan to demote French-language instruction; Narva City Council Fails Language Review; From lolcat to textspeak: How technology is shaping our language; Deaf association calls on state to learn sign language; The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right; Parents and Teachers Don't See Eye-to-Eye on Merits of Language Mixing; Promoting Indigenous African Language Films; Living On: Conference Devoted to Southern Finnic Nation; New volume of Encyclopaedia Sindhiana; A never-ending struggle against all odds; Promotion of Punjabi language urged; Child language documentation: a LIP discussion; Upolu debates Samoa language bill; Bringing languages to life in the classroom; Russian language initiative now has more than half of required signatures; Surprising pathway implicated in stuttering; Cool book alert: 'A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages'; Expats enrol in popular dialect course; 'Speak Shanghainese' wins recruits; 3,000 Volunteers Needed to Bring Historical Hawaiian Language Newspapers to the Internet
22: Sign language benefits hearing children and those with autism; Bilingual? Who are we kidding?; Castle to become Gaelic museum; Sohn receives Korean honors for language work; United States: The Young Ancestors - Video Documentary On Native American Teens Learning Native Language (trailer); Earliest Sample of Minoan Hieroglyphics Found in Western Crete
21: Cook and learn new languages; Saving A Living Language (video); Under-Represented Languages Dialogue Underway; Voice recognition: has it come of age?; Racing to Save a Native American Language; Lee Kuan Yew tells of his struggle with Chinese language; Dying Ormuri language finds saviour in English book; Linguist discusses endangered languages; PU dept takes Sanskrit into internet age, starts e-mag; Learn the basics of British Sign Language
20: Romansh hits the song contest stage; Vietnamese language promoted in France; New language for the Catholic Mass; MPs suggest simplification of the Hindi language; Singing to Save Garifuna (audio, video)
19: ‘Hamlet’ succeeds with original pronunciation
18: The Last Of The Navajo Code Talkers (audio); What-ho! Is that Norse you're speaking, Bertie Old Bean? The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal; Forgotten Tongues of the Dying People; No Maltese, thank you, Amazon tells publisher; Gaelic school is key to save the language; Katherine Siva Saubel, preserver of Cahuilla culture, dies at 91; Darwin’s Tongues: Languages, like genes, can tell evolutionary tales; Unconscious language learning; Bid to preserve languages pushed; Use Inuktitut or lose it, ITK panel says; Knowledge of Japanese language, culture crucial to WW II success in the Pacific; Rekindling Persian Past; A Klingon Christmas Carol Returns; PSS urged to include indigenous language class in high school graduation requirements; Eager to preserve language, Indians from Kerala embrace Wikipedia; Wikipedia Language Maps Created By Oxford Internet Institute's Mark Graham; Apple Siri, Google Voice could help save the world's languages; Linguist revives lost Aboriginal language; Policy to Promote Protection of Languages; OQLF wants French descriptions added to English brand names; Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher – review; Don’t dingie Scots slang say dictionary compilers; To read, write; Irish language version of Frank McCourt’s ‘Angela’s Ashes’ launched in NYC; The ‘linguistic famine’ in Kenyan households is diluting our culture; First Andaman dictionary a 'linguistic treasure trove'; Norwich launch of Keith Skipper dialect book; Author and Students Awarded on Language Day; Santiago to Host Congress on Indigenous Languages
17: Yiddish revival here to attract 2013 international conference; Closure of commissioner's office condemned; Giving Aboriginal Students Words of Their Own; HN: Linguists work on online encyclopedia of Czech language; Younger Estonians' Language Skills Declining, Specialists Say; Economics and linguistics merge in study; Calligraphy exhibit “Tengeriin Bichig” opens; Namibia: Agreement On Portuguese Language Signed; Yoruba language is dying, say Omole, Adeniyi; Sencity: more than a Deaf rave; VNSGU to compile literature in tribal languages; Learning the painless way; A Changing Language; All Greek to them: classics back in vogue as schools embrace languishing languages; Language of Instruction; EC highlights existing EU strategies on languages but respects national competences; Celtic Leage Conference 2011: Key Note Speech; Angelina Jolie's directorial debut to be released in Bosnian language. Good for Golden Globes?; Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Immersed in the Dakota language (audio); Quebec pension-fund manager sends execs to French classes amid language tiff; Language in words few take on board; Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Baltimore Dialect; Demand for French education surges in Louisiana; Taranaki Maori language expert calls for more creativity; Fight for Nyoongar language; You, señor, are nothing but a big liar – in any language; Linguistic diversity of Europe; Garifuna Translation Competition Held
16: Initiative for Russian as Latvia’s second state language moves forward; Music to the rescue in battle to save Europe's languages; Neville Alexander - a linguistic revolutionary; Breathing life into a dying language; On Icelandic Language Day, IR Goes More Icelandic; Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto—Why Do We Love To Invent Languages?; Cybertools Streamline Language Research; Much ado about Manchu; Indian languages goes Global; Baird gives a new voice to Wampanoag
12: Azerbaijani MPs suggest accepting Turkish as common Turkic language; Picking Brand Names in China Is a Business Itself; Apaches work to save language; Google Translate adds Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati to IPhone App
1: Dissecting dialects: From the coast to the mountains, North Carolina has a wide range of dialects.; At 105, Chinese Linguist Now A Government Critic (audio); Indigenous Focus: Indigenous Languages Being Strengthened Throughout Chile; Northern airline launches Inuktitut site; Linguist calls for English changes; Turkic-speaking countries including Kyrgyzstan should come to a common alphabet; Tobique filming elders to save language; Hamilton tells GAA to help de-politicise Irish; Residential School Survivors Share Their Stories; Laz foundation petitions Turkey to protect Laz language; Macau’s 'sweet language' on verge of disappearing

October 2011

31: Translating a lucrative and sometimes scary proposition; Traditional English Words Being Forgotten Thanks to 'Text-Speak'; The Jamaican Charter of Rights, now available in patois; At French immersion school, a love for Russian; Language school opens to ease business communication; Russian linguist wants to rescue dying Doukhobor language; Translators are pushing for more literary focus; Endangered Languages Week lends speakers' voices to languages almost silenced
24: Expats speak highly of learning Shanghai dialect; Perfecting His Irish on the Job; Manx language certificates for adult students at the Isle of Man College; Zimbabwe dictionary unifies rival sign languages
23: Native American Language Documentary Wins Upper Midwest Emmy
22: Sweeping plan to revamp tribal education advances in Senate; Latin Americans separated by the same language; Cubero says goodbye to Keresan
21: Judge's ban on 'love' in court 'risks eroding traditional Yorkshire dialect'
20: National award for Inuvialuktun teacher; Internet Can Help Save Niue language
18: If Ferdowsi Lived Today; Distinct dialect of Jeju threatened with extinction; The Language Fossils Buried in Every Cell of Your Body; Seonaidh Caimbeul: Mod and Gaelic are not quite in tune; Kazakhstan's Russians Don't Want Russian Language Downgraded

August 2011

28: Lakota Summer Institute Arms Attendees to Fight the Loss of Native American Language
26: Saving Endangered Languages; Australian Endangered Languages Get Boost from Alumna; AILA 2011 kicks off at BFSU; Mangalore: National Symposium on Sanskrit Begins at Vijaya College; Dugon, Haus You Dinikin, Du-Ah: The secrets of twin speak; 'Dere's a beeg jam up de reever'; Hebrew Immersion Another Option at Charter Schools; Scripts fading away with time; Donalds Hill Court - in French, Greek...; Rip-roaring tale; Cape Cod’s first language is spoken again; Bucharest outdoor events mark Romanian language day on August 31; Tokyo lecturer's book for Japanese Welsh learners
23: The Automatic's Rob Hawkins on learning Esperanto (audio); Typography from linguistic function to art; You say tomato, they say 'xitomatl' - New Yorkers channel the Aztecs by saving a dying language; More day care centers, parents using sign language to communicate with babies
22: What's your sign? Deaf culture knows; English the lingua franca in China; Proposal could cut dual-language ballots (video); Boulder man authors 'Climbing Dictionary'; Cops told to learn languages; Fundraising concert a love letter to the spoken word; Robust Preschool Experience Offers Lasting Effects On Language and Literacy; Call to implement Assam Official Language Act; A-level results: number of languages students falls to new low; ‘Hallyu an asset for Korean studies’; Dictionary compilers create endangered words list; Justice Canada explores links between linguistic minorities and youth crime; Speak out during International Languages Week; English Too Easy for Hungarians; Yorkshire Dialect: The Most Amusing Turns Of Phrases; Yiddish a Mixed Bag at Jewish Schools Worldwide; Grand Ceremony Marks Launch of Global Konkani Organisation; Mrit bhasha? Over its dead body; Should My Kid Learn Mandarin Chinese?; Carlingford set to turn into 'mini-Gaeltacht'; Workshop works to revitalize Tlingit language; Official Languages Act trumps Montreal Convention; Getting Ready for Global Business: The Benefits of the Foreign Language Internet; Carmarthenshire Council accused of ‘total disregard’ for language; Kurdish language gains ground in Turkey; Italian language under threat from cuts, warns academy
20: Kerala to Prepare Konkani Textbooks for Schools; 50 years of language study began on Martha's Vineyard; Joe Amoako, Delaware State University professor of languages, authors book; That's So Mysto: What makes slang stick?; Teen sees Yup'ik songs as means of preserving Native languages; Rescuing Endangered Languages Means Saving Ideas
19: Mankini, jeggings make Oxford Dictionary; Wordplay: from growleries to woots and beyond; Poll support for Gaelic language; French as mother tongue declines; Saving Salish, one speaker at a time; English as 'goodly spoken' in South Asia
18: Kohanga reo claim continues; Manipuri language day to be observed
17: Ivanhoe celebrates Polish heritage tastefully; Digital Heroes: Q&A with Michelle Gallen, Northern Ireland Digital Heroes winner; A half-Welsh writer's witty journey to become a complete Cymro; Academic calls for greater acceptance of Chinese-English (audio); Opinion: Why is Bilingualism Seen as Un-American?; Montenegrin authorities introduce new alphabet; Teachers Take Intensive Training; Labour promote boycott of English language; Brussels now bilingual in name only; Speaking and listening share large part of brain infrastructure; MP blasts ‘monkey language’ attack on Welsh
16: Profound Reorganization in Brains of Adults Who Stutter: New Study Shows Auditory-Motor Integration Located in a Different Part of the Brain
15: Kiowa Kids program enjoys success this summer; Encourage Youth To Learn French Language; New Welsh language commissioner ‘must name and shame firms’; Philippines’ tribes take home lessons; English versus Pacific languages in NZ schools debate (audio); PTV launches news service in Shina and Balti languages; Time to 'rampas' and restore glory of Bahasa; One Language, No Unity; Craze for foreign languages; Eminent linguist fought for country; Writers decry fall in Telugu usage; Ife researchers unveil local language text-to-voice application; Yorktown Musicians Teach Foreign Language Through Songs; 38 years of Carn, the Celtic League magazine, now accessible on line
13: Ministry denies proposing additions to alphabet; Hawaiian Language Greeting Launched at Molokai Airport
12: Let every new word bloom; Census form Welsh row in Scotland; Classical or Kanglish?; A dying art: Calligraphers still aiming to be letter-perfect; Akwesasne Freedom School's mission: Cultural survival (audio); ANU linguist noted for language rescue work; Language-obsessed teen has tongue operation
11: Lost indigenous languages to be revived; NICO commences Indigenous Language classes; First Marshallese class to be offered in Fall 2011
10: With the Dakota language on life support, a resurgence among native youth; Children sought for cleft palate speech study: Researcher has new method of therapy; Nearly 80 pct of Mexicans who speak an Indian language are poor; Romania rejects law on film dubbing replacing subtitling; Indian Women Bloggers Find Their Voice, in Their Own Language; Strange and Twisted Tongues; President Inaugurates the Establishment of ‘Dhivehi Language Academy.’; A Common Language; The Novel Idea of Promoting Proper Bulgarian Language by Legal Sanctions; Watson’s natural language processing takes crack at unstructured data; Materials for teaching native languages undergo revisions; Kazakhstan uses Russian experience in language policy; Speakers for Urdu as official language; House probe sought on penalties vs native-speaking students; Israeli nursing school rescinds ban on speaking Russian and Arabic; Faáfafines’ unconventional use of language evolves into Samoan dialect; Liveoffice Ports To New Language: Klingon; Google's Voice Hunter And The Search For 300 Languages; At 90, Chester Nez Keeps Alive the Story of Navajo Code Talkers; Indigenous languages thriving in Columbia (video); Federal Agencies Take Action to Digitally Document Nearly 50 Endangered Languages; Amazigh language recognised by Moroccan constitution (video); 'Avatar' fans learn to speak Na'vi language; Book review: When the World Spoke French, By Marc Fumaroli; The murder of linguistic history — III; The primary school where just FOUR pupils out of over 400 speak English as mother tongue; Is Hindi our National Language?; The Eerie Beauty of Rare Alphabets; Native American Teacher Connects a New Generation With Cherokee Culture
9: Lingua franca; Staff to learn Gaelic online
8: Living the language; The sign of the times is loud and clear (video); All India linguistic survey gathers steam; UT professor mines language for clues about behavior; Giving voice to Tsistsistas & Hinonoei; Korean language center to open in Indonesia
7: Language skills for orang utan; Royal Institute promoting Thai dialects; Mind it! Between languages; La.'s Tunica tribe revives its lost language
6: Welsh fluency among primary school pupils ‘same as 1986’ - claim; Official Czech language raters face new words surge
5: Linguist Considers 'What Language Is' — And Isn't (audio); Rihanna and Lady Gaga to get Cornish makeover to save dialect; Call to fight for sustainable Welsh-speaking communities; For Nagpur University, Marathi is a foreign language; Research will log Gower's unique words; Translating Chinese means big business; Lewis Welshman vows to go to jail in Census form protest; Learning foreign languages
4: Asam Sahitya Sabha threatens fast; 10 Essential Books on Typography; To raise bilingual children, some families try ‘one parent, one language’ approach; New Brain Imaging Research Reveals Why Autistic Individuals Confuse Pronouns; A Challenge to Britain’s new ”Speak English” rule; Police officers win Welsh language prizes; Invented languages; Chinese teachers are on a U.S. mission; Southern Albertans might have local dialect, prof says; Twitter Update: New Funding, New Languages; Global Voices in Aymara: Preserving Indigenous Language Online
3: Moldova: Attack on Journalist Causes Online Debate on “Language Issue”; For Alaska's Alutiiq, the Future May Be Found in the Past (video); Minister for Gaelic visits Sabhal Mor Ostaig; Looking for qualified English teachers; Death of the Breton linguist Per Denez
2: Glaswegian and Brummie accents 'sound more stupid'
1: Zimbabwe: Book Fair Blitz on Local Languages; August is National Language month; Dictionary to record Gower dialect in heritage plan; Strategy to boost use of welsh in everyday life; 'It's very nice, no?'--Nonnative English as a norm; Digitization Project Brings Ancient Inscriptions Into 21st Century; Growing a Yiddish heritage; A gift of gab; 61241 primary students want to study in Eng: FORCE; After foreign languages, Tamils take to Malayalam; New Mandarin test to make Chinese pay more attention to mother tongue

July 2011

31: Castagna's idiosyncratic Maltese of 150 years ago; Learning With The Mother Tongue (Part 2); Court orders Yukon to build $15M school for 41 francophone students; A Chance to Record Some of the 112 Local Languages
30: Govt to promote Iban language intensively; ‘Secret shoppers’ to hunt for laggards on bilingualism; Make sign language official — Hadebe; Turkey: Istanbul’s Greek Schools Struggle amid Funding Shortage; Lost in Translation? An Interpreter Speaks (audio); Dissecting Dyslexia: Linking Reading to Voice Recognition; British troops imparted Pashto language skills
29: Native v State Language: Ethnic minorities of Georgia face education and identity challenges; Day Yoruba Academy celebrated kids, arts; Rewarded for keeping Thai alive; No move to replace medium of instruction; Government keen to develop all languages: Mian Altaf; A stir over sign language; Indigenous, non-English languages struggle to survive in U.S.; Lebanon's last Arabic scribes struggle in IT age; In the company of whales; Balochi language moot starts from 31st; Twitterati Embrace Kazakh Language
28: Indiana University takes leadership role in effort to restore federal funding to vital foreign language and culture programs; Guest Lecture - Dharug and Lower Hawkesbury Historical Society; Language Wise; 70-mile bike ride in aid of Welsh language; Advertising - Indigenous SA languages: Speaking to consumers; Saving language with a Record-A-Thon (audio); American Sign Language on the Brink of Extinction (audio); BPP calls for recognition of other languages; Mother tongue: Another opportunity goes begging; Guernsey French speakers 'may be the last'
27: Teacher program aids indigenous speakers; The vital importance of bilingualism in Malta; Ancient papyri: frankly, they're still all Greek to me; Language manuals website provides a cultural education; Leighton Andrews explains the role of the Welsh Language Commissioner; Among Twists in Budget Woes, Tensions Over Teaching the Deaf; Old school printer exploits his passion for languages to the last letter; Keeping the Cornish language alive by taking tips from our Manx cousins
26: 'Keeping the languages alive' (video); OAP marks Esperanto 124th birthday; Language tool teaches Tlingit alphabet (audio); Viewpoint: American English is getting on well, thanks; iTrent Enables Powys County Council to Launch First Integrated Welsh Language Recruitment System; English-language schools reinvented; Linguistics Olympiad draws multi-talented youngsters; Why Harry Potter's Latest Trick Is to Speak a Syrian Dialect; Babu wants 'official language' status to Marathi; First Iban Thesaurus-like Dictionary Ready By Month-end; Plan to preserve endangered languages
25: Software Spots 'Opinion Spam'; The growing global allure of Kiswahili; Group Fights to Keep Dialect Alive; Linguistics skills send teen to competition; IGNOU to set up first Indian Sign Language Research Centre; Why aren't you speaking the right language?; Language progresses with colloquialisms; Swear words shed light on how language shapes thought; Govt 'recognises preschool concerns'
24: Expatriates learn to talk Emirati with course in 'Arabish'; LiveAndTell, A Crowdsourced Quest To Save Native American Languages; A visual narrative of the Cherokee language opens at Museum Center at Five Points on Saturday; Ancient language renewed in Libyan rebellion; Bangladesh: Government Needs To Take The Necessary Steps To Prevent Indigenous Languages From Extinction, Demanded By Rights Groups; The murder of linguistic history — II
23: Not just the written word; MIE trains teachers in 'Kreol Morisien'; The power of Creole; Welsh Government wants 30% of 7-yr-olds in Welsh-medium schools by 2020; Starting at home: A revival of Cree culture; Feature: English for Speakers of Other Languages; Budget cuts push student's language learning to the edge; Guernsey's Bailiff calls for patois prize to be set up; Foreign language centers cries wine and sell vinegar; Court OKs defense in Kurdish; Age no excuse for failing to learn a new language
22: Bible rewritten using 'the language of today'; Saving indigenous languages; Non-Native English Speakers Inspire Linguistics Archive; Experts to discuss online classroom technology for English language learning; The riddle of the Syriac double dot: it’s the world’s earliest question mark; Language 'main issue' in literacy, maths marks; Language Centre to open for ethnic minorities in Javakheti; Arunachal to introduce Bhoti in Buddhist-inhabited areas; WWII Navajo code talker Joe Morris dies at 85; 49 Writers' Vanasse publishes original kids' book in English and Yup'ik; BYU professor researches Utah linguistic quirk; South Korea to open language school
21: A Hebrew revival; The school where pupils speak 44 languages (... including Zulu); Courts lost in translation; Trouble with sentences may predict Alzheimer's; Languages on Papua Vanish Without a Whisper; Dene Assembly delegates push GNWT for language programs
20: Lessons from Oaxaca; Cursive Out Of Common Core Standards, But Still Hanging On; Studios try to lessen what's lost in translation; Restore funding for languages; Experts question roots of ‘modern’ Assamese - Reprint of Nathan Brown’s original 1848 grammar creates flutter in the state’s literary circles; Fewer Verbs and Nouns in Financial Reporting Could Predict Stock Market Bubble, Study Shows
19: High hopes for Ho; The power of nouns – tiny word change increases voter turnout; The Price of Typos; 5th pan-Armenian Olympiad of Armenian Language and Literature gets underway; Lost Words - Video Trailer For Documentary On Revitalizing American Indian Language; Kiki or bouba? In search of language's missing link; Land of 10,000 Stories: Reviving the dying Dakota language (video); Mi'kmaq language to be taught in 2 more P.E.I. schools
18: To make sense of the babel, Mumbai Police seek language cell; Visually-impaired can now learn in regional languages; First Nations Language Champions Honored; UC Berkeley asks incoming students to say more than 'hello'; Qatar Bedouin's dialect losing status; The murder of linguistic history — I; Enhanced Speakers; Kairdiff-speak could be a ‘dairk’ horse in the history of Welsh language; Dame Katerina Mataira, kaitiaki of te reo Maori passes; ‘Pinablin Taoir’ radio program to rejuvenate Pangasinan language
17: What’s the point of Esperanto?; Poliglotti4.eu: Multilingualism observatory ready next year; Aboriginal Languages Institute Returns to NWT; Campaign for official NZ recognition of five Pacific languages (audio); Questioning the Inca Paradox: Did the civilization behind Machu Picchu really fail to develop a written language?; Central Eurasian Studies Professor Kara honored for lifetime achievements; Court orders Air Canada to pay $12K to couple over lack of French services; Why do some Americanisms irritate people?; Language centre plan for campus; Researching roots of Tubatulabal language, artifacts in nation’s capital; Revival of Thai, Mong languages in schools; New book and exhibition looks at retaining the Haida language; Professional translation important for European integration; New edition of Language Atlas of China to be published within 2011
16: Parrotlet Chicks Learn Their Calls From Mom and Dad (video); Ending language discrimination; Computer Learns Language by Playing Games; New SA doc explores dying indigenous language; Study Reveals New Clue to Sign Language; Xhosa people in Zimbabwe to stop learning Shona: Xhosa King; Korea to build Hangeul museum in Seoul by 2013; Lost voices, different lives; Rais Urges RTM To Promote Classical Dayak Languages; Protect Fijian language; Agadir's Timitar Festival highlights Berber comeback
15: Even Before Language, Babies Learn The World Through Sounds; Apps on how to speak Klingon; US to hold inaugural Spanish spelling bee; Expert: China's 130 national languages still thriving; Top Chinese dictionary releases new version to reflect social change; Language varsity on the cards; Positive moves to embrace te reo; Educators work to preserve endangered Alaska languages; Talk of the town? Not for everyone; Swedish dialects becoming fewer; Sequoyah's Language Lost & Found: Carolina Graduate Students Reviving the Cherokee Language; A way with words; Changes needed before second Gaelic school; EU, State Breathe New Life into Citizenship and Language Courses
14: A la perchoine for Guernsey French? (video); Parents’ group fears for Welsh medium education
13: Learning by teaching; Justice lost in translation for Australians; Ethnic language goes digital; Gene implicated in speech regulates connectivity of the developing brain; What of Persian and the Lingua Franca of the New Century?; Namibia: PON Hosts Linguistics Conference; Saving Language; Can the Internet Save Endangered Languages? (VIDEO); Javakhk Armenians against bilingual education system introduced in Georgia; Rizal films in Filipino sign language; World's only Sanskrit daily turns 42; Top Thai language speakers honoured; $500,000 for graduate fellowships in Linguistics & Second Language Studies; Do your bit to 'save' te reo; Take pride in BM, says Muhyiddin; Aboriginal anthem 'a truly uplifting experience' (video); Dictionary reprint for simpler Assamese; Dew yew keep talking Norfolk dialect
12: English for Advanced Learners: Linguists Examine Obstacles to Native-Like Proficiency in Foreign Language Acquisition; World's first Gaelic speaking teddy ready to hit shops; Research backs English as key to development; Speaking te reo sets us apart; Can Learning Japanese or Chinese Help Dyslexia?; Arabic voiceovers: Dubstars; Czech celebrate Cyril and Methodius; Irish language must be valued; Interaction is critical for the evolution of the language; Celebrities bound for language camp for Welsh lessons; Prince William dazzles Yellowknife crowd with a nod to local languages; Fluency in Maori dying with elders; Child Late To Talk? When To Stress; Social networking 'giving Welsh a new lease of life', according to language expert; Moroccan Berbers Call Constitutional Reforms A 'Trick'
1: Sinn Féin Pledges Support For Irish Language Strategy; Language loss and social stratification

June 2011

30: Growth pangs of Indian languages; The Forward March of Spanish; A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script (video); Hip-hop, texting may help save world's languages; The Rosetta Project Is Preserving Every Language Ever Spoken, On One Nano-Etched Piece Of Metal
29: USA's 1st Punjabi charter school to open in California; New York Works | Dialect And Accents Coach; Silenced voices: Languages dying off around the globe; Nigeria's pidgin radio station takes off; Tangier Islanders Retain Unique Dialect (audio); Cornish Language Partnership awarded £360000 over 3 years; Compensation for lost languages; Federal cuts sting UW's global-language classes; Closing the language divide in Timor-Leste
28: Malay Language At Crossroads: Going Back To Where We Started; Endangered language studied in Spain
26: Concordia Language Villages: Finnish ambassador celebrates Salolampi anniversary; The secret of success to Irish language
25: Book Review: Tyranny of Language in Education; Chinglish finds funny side of language, cultural challenges between U.S. and China; Iranology center, Persian language laboratory established at Pakistan university; Malay Language Council releases compilation of Malay folk songs for children; Watch a Birch Bark Canoe Being Built; TV, pop and the internet are 'turning teenagers off learning foreign languages', warns Kate Adie; 'Busybodies' watch their language; Jorhat hosts language workshop - Sabha vows to work for growth of Assamese; Goa CM faces anti-English ire
24: Australia: $47 Million For Indigenous Arts, Culture, Languages And Jobs; Rise Of Indigenous Actress Marks Change In Peru; Demand for Early Childhood Language Courses Reaches Epic Proportions; The challenge of an indigenous sign language; Greek-Macedonian Dictionary promoted in Brussels; VUW creates online dictionary of New Zealand sign language; Prachatham woos southerners using local 'Malayu' language; Why there are no films in original language shown in Kyiv any more; Language tests being misused, UK study suggests
23: Components of Speech Recognition Pathway in Humans Identified; East Kilbride woman to address international sign language conference; Galata goes red for Spanish day celebrations; Record 1m pupils speak English as a second language; Cherokees take action on charter school plan; Ray Kurzweil on Translation Technology; Preserving Alaska Native culture; Native American Students Helping Preserve Language; Google can now translate five Indian languages; Macedonian Language Becomes Official in Plandište Municipality in Republic of Serbia; Tonight: Properties Of The Bermudian Dialect; Cornish language's funding boost; Redefining language; Language camp teaches more than words; Foreign scholars debunk stone tablet with old Philippine script as modern-day hoax
22: Sequoyah Birthplace Museum to celebrate 25 years; Official Documents to be in Mongolian Script; Cracking the code of machine translation; Icann expands scope of web domain suffixes to include all languages and scripts; Diverse Salt Lake population provides much-needed interpretation services at hospitals, clinics
21: Planet of the Ape; Italian students find relief in Turkish; Why Context Matters In The Long And Short Of Words; Linguistics Institute to offer free films, workshops at CU-Boulder; Kyrgyzstan: Minority Children Need More than State Language; Teaching Gaelic 'needs written guidance', HMIE say; Celebrating Maori Language Week 2011; More Inuit language instruction the key: Nunavut Literacy Council; Extinction-threatened Qiang culture calls for protection after devastating earthquake; Atayal film recounts ancient migration and modern conflicts; Azerbaijan, Georgia review education cooperation; Govt schools pander to English craze; MHA asks central offices, PSUs and banks to use local language; National Assembly for Wales breaks its own law on Welsh language, says inquiry; The Success of Native Language and Culture-Based Education (video); Thai students 'must learn languages'; Noida start up Panini Keypad breaking language barriers on mobile phones; Keeping a language alive; California Language Archive clicks with multiple resources; Man arrested after 'pulling gun during pub language row'; 'In China, thou shalt speak the people’s language'; Students keen to learn an African language; Browning radio station brings community together through Blackfeet language
20: Yelkatte one of the last Sencoten speakers
19: Omar admits official neglect of Urdu, Kashmiri; MB: Minority communities must ensure survival of their languages; Squamish Nation publishes dictionary to keep their language alive; New languages to be added to syllabus; Provincial archives honours missionaries who devised written language for First Nations; Early experience found critical for language development
18: Salti Center for Ladino Studies Celebrates the Opening of its New Home; Who Am I? reflects Shuswap language and culture; Slovakia: Romani language, literature become subjects for school graduation exams; Disqualified AM at risk of losing seat ‘because he speaks Welsh’; Social and church groups concerned for future of Taiwanese as mother language; Camp meant to save Saulteaux language; Mising in language award list - Sahitya Akademi to recognise contribution from community for first time; Loveland company supports life-long learning for Native Americans; Brussels subway latest front in linguistic fight; Your English Is Showing; Japanese, 63, enters Grade 3; Do you speak Romanian? They do. Expats in Romania balance survival skill and cultural immersion; In Central Asia, Russian wave ebbs away; Restoring our national pride; Taiwan rules out official use of simplified Chinese; Genetic structure of the Mon-Khmer speaking groups and their affinity to the neighbouring Tai populations in Northern Thailand
17: Language can unite; Sign-language interpretation in Commons question period includes any heckling; Fairfax teen immerses himself in language
16: How ‘little’ African languages can be written down for the first time; Kashmiri Language Day Observed at DPS Sgr; 'How to say 'I love you' in Greenlandic'; Building public spaces from fonts, in Latin and Arabic
15: Fluent English Speakers Translate Into Chinese Automatically; Ottawa to support recommendation for bilingual Inuit schooling; Two conferences on revitalizing Cherokee and small-population languages; New toolkit will help identify early language issues; Teachers go back to classroom to learn to give lessons in Gaelic
14: Language of change; Samareh translating Comrie's textbook for doctorate students; Dagupan revives Pangasinan dialect thru 'Project Sanengseng'; Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words; A year on, and the Belgians are in no rush to form a government; Survival of urdu: Writers struggle for national language; UER, GES appeals for institution of local languages in basic schools
13: £6m for sabbaticals to learn Welsh; Punjabi univ launches online dictionary; Area middle school students in national Braille contest; Language lover listed in Queen's honours; Exploring Sweden's linguistic history in the United States; Tracking down where Welsh language dialects collide; Irish language theatre - is it time to stage a revival?; Glaswegian accent is a barrier for employers, finds survey; French immersion popularity on the rise in BC; Hinglish is in vogue in PU; 150 red Rizal balloons go by
12: John Burroughs Teen Is South Korea Bound; Government silent on fate of French and Portuguese in schools
11: Language problem? No problem...; Bay Area School Gets Korean Language Class, With Help From Korean Government; Government shelves decision on mandatory Leaving Cert Irish; IGNOU hosts conference on sign language; Ga Dangmes in Diaspora lament over dying Ga language; MPs pass motion seeking to ban Vernacular use; Russia in race for Olympic English; Turkey: Kurds Boycott Mosques For Language Rights; Ganesh Devy receives 2011 Linguapax Award in Barcelona; Kenya: Kiswahili Spicing Up Broadcasting; The return of Igbo language film; At the Dictionary Society of North America, words matter — a lot; Yiddish is music to Bialik teacher’s ears; The Protection of Yi Language; Helping Bangor students to use Welsh; French immersion growing rapidly; No referendum on school language as signature drive falls short — officials; Haida immersion coming to Tahayghen; Kujtim Pačaku: Romani children should get their language with their mother's milk; Asian languages a priority for WA students; Nunavut tables language law road map
9: Will learning sign language delay your child's speech development?; Sri Lanka MPs to receive Tamil language lessons; Mother language protection stressed; Arunachal minister asks Centre to include all state languages; Language campaigners take S4C funding fight to Europe; Craigslist Ads With Good Grammar Get Better Response; Call for declaring Urdu as official language; American Indian Language Development Institute Brown Bag Lecture Series; Gwynedd primary heads meet over 'informal' Welsh bid
8: Plans for a new Welsh medium school approved; After 25 years of work, dictionary set for release; A gov’t that’s often lost in translation; Turkey's religious affairs authority criticizes recitation of adhan in Kurdish; Immigrant languages thrive amongst first-generation Canadians; Nigeria: Are Our Indigenous Languages Dying?
7: Be it numbers or words, the structure of our language remains the same; Fewer students taking Gaeltacht courses is bad for future of Irish; Keeping an old language young; Amharic heritage language class to teach reading, writing, culture to Ethiopian high school students in Los Angeles; Regeneration of Gaelic adult learning
6: Te reo is Cathy's life; UTA helps Native Americans learn to save own languages; Stars spark rise in local accents; Ancient world dictionary finished — after 90 years; Ancient language in modern times; Panaji: BBSM Stresses on Peaceful Bandh to Protect Languages on Jun 6; 'Tamil language and culture fostered and promoted well in Sri Lanka'; Thoughts within thoughts make us human; Nigeria: Reviving Igbo Language And Culture; Dante Alighieri Committee in Bulgaria and Promotion of Italian Language Worldwide; Keeping it alive
5: French Polynesia to appeal France’s decision on indigenous language tuition; Mango Languages: A Michigan Success Story; Is it okay to lose your language? Not for these Fil-Ams; Championing indigenous languages for children; Maids to get free language classes
4: Trefor Welsh language campaigner vows to risk jail again; Amendment to Manipur Official Language Act for inclusion of Meetei Mayek delayed; Tongue Tied: How Budget Cuts to International Education Will Hurt the U.S.; Help: This Is A Stub; Navajo: a tongue for the young; Gita Koda wants to break language barrier; NHK introduces Automatic Animated Sign Language Generation System (video); Gaeltacht areas will be identified by use of Irish and not geographical location
3: DoCoMo demonstrates spoken language translator for smartphones; After the spelling bee, imagining a world without standardized spelling; Korean Language and Culture Center opens at Minsk university; Got it in writing: A surprising Bronze Age discovery; Talking the talk; Rosetta Stone arrives on iPad; language learning takes logical leap
2: Pacific languages literacy ‘ignored’ in NZ, says Labour MP; Geordie's still alreet: Some accents are becoming more distinctive and others more widespread; Burma's Minorities Call Out for Native Tongue; ‘If you’re Canadian, why aren’t you bilingual?’ new immigrants wonder; Sanitationman Edward (Shevy) Shevlin awarded Fulbright scholarship to study in Ireland; Institute to Teach, Revitalize Indigenous Languages; Bilingualism No Big Deal for Brain, Researcher Finds; Google eBooks Gets Dictionary, Translation, Search; Queens politicians push bill to force store owners to include English translations for store signs; Celebrating Gaelic Language and Culture, Op-ed; Israel to teach sign language in city schools; What’s New in Aphasia Research
1: Eyak language workshops coming to Anchorage; Two languages better than one; 'Proud to struggle for language, script and culture'; Syntactic variability of dialects in the North Basque Country – with the BASYQUE computer application; Any takers of Tulu textbooks in Dakshin Kannada?; Linguist joins ministry to launch translation project in Congo; Up Close: Where the Code Talkers were 'born'; Recruiting policemen fluent in foreign languages to aid tourists; Bodo now a NET subject; Deaf request government to recognise Maltese sign language as legitimate language; Australians to be fined for 'obnoxious' swearing; Elder who preserved Potawatomi language dies; Talofa lava: Samoan language in spotlight; Turkish PM dives into language debate; Learn to speak Welsh with your baby; Ambagan conference aims to enrich PH languages

May 2011

30: The book of secrets; How accent could save Tangier; A Taste of Saudi Arabian Culture in Inverness; Some NY immigrants cite lack of Spanish as barrier; As Slang Changes More Rapidly, Expert Has to Watch His Language; Study of Korean language growing yearly in Taiwan; Punjabi set to become 4th top language in Canada; Khichri language; Lakhimpur to get language research centre; Indonesians Flock to Chinese Language Centers; Study finds small language gaps in children adopted from abroad
29: Jeju's 'endangered' dialect; Spelling not always on the mark throughout history; Irish language row erupts after Royal stamp of approval; Guardian of the language has come a long way; Converting Sri Lankan Malay into a written language; Sechelt language saved for posterity; Deaf celebrate new Icelandic sign language law
28: Festival aims at promoting Native language; Students work to save Salish language (video)
27: Slovak parliament passes amendment to Act on Use of Minority Languages; Sicily green lights instruction of dialect; Hawaiian Educators Spread Immersion Message in Washington; Irish in danger of dying out in Gaeltacht shortly, says FG; Irish Language Act to be revived; Internet Explorer 9 now supports 93 languages; Why Are Spy Researchers Building a 'Metaphor Program'?; Fermisht but Not Fergotten
26: MT prof wins Fulbright Scholarship; Early Intervention Key to Improving Literacy Skills for Deaf Children; A Kurdish TV station; Soapbox: Learning English is not a sprint; 'Learn another language' campaign launched in KZN; Bengal to have six more languages for official use; UN Expert's Intervention in Marginalisation of Tibetan Language; Preserving aboriginal languages crucial; Galway businesses support a bilingual city; New Mobile Spanish Language-Learning App Brands Itself as the “Opposite of Rosetta Stone”; Teachers go back to classroom to learn to give lessons in Gaelic; Black and White and Hebrew All Over; UT Arlington linguist wins NSF grant to breathe new life into endangered Native American languages; Research and Markets: Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus; Obama learned Gaelic from hotel receptionist in Dublin
25: Cong MPs divided over including Marwari in 8th Schedule; SA enacted law to promote Sindhi language: SHC told; Mais Oui! Learning a Language Helps Toddler’s Brain Function
24: Why Bulgarian still matters; Protodeacon Kurayev called Sts Cyril and Methodius "Orthodox Tolkien"; White Clay language grads make history; The LEARN Act: An expensive mistake; Carmarthenshire council plan a rise in Welsh speakers; Kannada S&T lexicon with 15K words launched; AUT Launches International Centre For Language Revitalisation In The USA; Socrates in Spanish; Manx language revived in schools with over 1,000 pupils now learning; Turkey’s Zaza gearing up efforts for recognition of rights; New Sign Language Bill Could Help Interpreter Shortage; Children Learn Language in Moments of Insight, Not Gradually Through Repeated Exposure, Study Shows; Salutatorian brings Latin to life as 'something really beautiful'; Speaking the same language; Seminar of ancient languages to be held; ESL teachers about to become hot commodity; The Language of Love: Word Usage Predicts Romantic Attraction; Why Sudanese-American Children Are Learning Their Parent’s Language
23: The sorry tale of Balochi press; 2 years of Chamorro in school mandated; Students rue govt 'apathy' towards Sanskrit; Spellbound ahead of Saturday's Hmong Spelling Bee; Cheyenne language, culture should be learned at home; Language acts as hurdle for Marathi medium students; Reviving Hebrew; Not all plain sailing for gaelic channel BBC Alba; Language Learning Institute coming to Saratoga Springs; Healy couple translates New Testament to Gwich’in language; Tennessee students learning Chinese as economy shifts; INDIRECTLY SPEAKING / In praise of learning grammar--and not conversation; Mock Awards: Pressure group “honors” statesmen espousing foreign-language education in Armenia
22: New apps tackle Arabic translation; English language threatens Arabic; China and Taiwan 'first joint dictionary'; Lessons preserve Okanagan language
21: Infants' Cries May Predict Later Language Development; Pasage to the past; Teaching English at primary level no threat to local culture; Top scholars want Kiswahili tests reviewed; 'English only' sign back up to stay at diner, owner says; Mozambique: Portuguese, the Language of Mozambicanness; Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says; Lord of the Rings author's love of Wales; Is the Southern accent dying? How new research shows upper and middle classes are losing their drawl
20: Mi’kmaq teachers find ways to share language; Speaking one's mother tongue is vital; The return of the Scots language; Cape Verde: Creole and Portuguese Languages, an Unofficial Pair
19: Latvian ombudsman backs proposal to toughen language policy; Teachers Need Greater Awareness of Language Disorders, Research Finds; Young authors put pen to paper; ‘A great collection of words’: Squamish-English Dictionary part of language revival efforts; Feds must stop writing gibberish under new law; Dnevnik, Macedonia: Albanian to become second official language, Ali Ahmeti says; Tonga Language To Be Tested For First Time; Learning sign language at school (Audio); Day 18: Google Docs Translations Don't Make Sense; NA body rejects bill to give regional languages status of national language; Kinect Hack Could Eventually Translate Sign Language; Baby Talk: How does language develop in babies?; Can Language Influence Your Sex Personality?; Kurdish "Language Day" Celebrated in Armenia (video); Rights activists call for dual language policy; I learned Mandarin in two days (well, almost); Learn a language in a laboratory; Internet poisoning English? LOL (IMHO); Arabic Chat Translator Transforms Social Media Analysis
18: Linguistic surrealism from China to Belgium; Notre Dame, AIF dinner, and meeting the Taoiseach; The Case for One Armenian Dialect; Nearly 500 degrees, certificates awarded to Signal Peak grads; Video Game Training With Mock Alien Language Suggests Mechanisms of Language Learning; Reading Arabic ‘different’ for the brain –new study; Some parents angered by Daniels' picks for School for the Deaf board members; Khmer Tattoo Translations on the Rise – Courtesy Of Angelina Jolie; Swedish teacher lands EU 'tongue stories' award; Language conference focuses on EFL; Languages at university to be saved from the axe; Lingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language; MAY 13 G/CCS BOARD MEETING NOTES School board approves NMSU-Grants’ budget and Keres discussed; Danielle passes on signing skills; State attorney general admonishes Jackson leaders over English-only law; How different are fiction dialogues from spoken conversation?; How our bits shape us: James Gleick’s “The Information”; Entropy is Universal Rule of Language; Communities strive to save dying languages; Angola singer appeals for valorisation of vernacular languages; First nation endeavors to keep Maliseet language alive and well; Busuu language, with only 8 speakers left, seeking a comeback in song
16: For some, it's courses, language, culture; African Language Scholar Wins Guggenheim Fellowship; Easter Seals celebrates Speech Language Pathology Month; Carpinteria Students Research Linguistics; Cabbies' language skills fine, says industry; One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman; Poet leads Ndau revival crusade; Spanish Language Contact Center Solution Trends: Impact of Growing Hispanic Population in U.S.; In China, a rediscovery of Sanskrit; Zambia: Language, a Vital Tool for Communication; Hindi university: Gandhi's dream turned into reality; Zurich toddlers to learn only Swiss-German; Importance of translating from Persian to Arabic reviewed; Maltese language hardly used on the internet; Call to defend Urdu against English language onslaught; Hawaiian Language Lives On; Mountain Medicine: Confronting the speech monster; Loving The English Language, Or Loving To Complain About It?; ‘Losing a moment in time’; Some not convinced of ape language skills; Persuasive speech: The way we, um, talk sways our listeners
15: Preserving the Ndebele language; GTC rules Chamorro language competition; Include Gojri language in 8th schedule: Gujjar organisation; Colombia: Saving dying languages; Choteau kids bask in Blackfeet culture during student exchange; Amirite? Learning to love 'tag questions'; MCC grad, a polyglot, beats rare defect; Tis Hazari judges have to use Hindi; Why can’t Asian Americans speak their native tongue?; To an unscripted future; Tlingit book collaboration turns new page in Alaska kids' reading
14: Vic schools to teach bilingual curriculum; Inupiaq inspires college graduate's interest in languages; 1600 students, 69 languages, one school; Love for Erebuni school in Belmont; 'Sign language is part of our identity'; Review: On the Death and Life of Languages; Volunteers teach languages to migrant workers; Writer says U.S. Latinos should be proud of their language; AMC educates on speech, hearing loss; Netizens have their fingers on new language; Swiss woman wins Korean-language speech contest
13: Poetry reading conjures up beauty of languages; Anambra sets up Igbo language school; Culver City Celebrates 40 Years of Language Immersion; Students Get to Experience Cultures at Language Day; Donna Teresa: Sign language rocks at the Boardwalk; Chavez: English Immersion for Immigrants; Twitter seeks Portuguese translators; Mongolia’s changing scenery; Google’s Real-Life Babelfish Will Translate the World; Language row erupts over radio station's bid to cut Welsh broadcasting; Where Should I Teach English Abroad? Comparing Teaching Opportunities in Asia, Europe, and Latin America; Arabic Language Study Flourishes in New Haven; Patients With Language Barriers Take Almost Twice as Long to Get to the Hospital; Rescuing ancient languages: Linguists labor to unravel endangered Mayan tongues; Lunch 'n Learn hears about the kinks in speech
12: 12th World Russian Conference Opens in Shanghai; Shanghai dialect a true tongue twister; Stopping the local dialect becoming derelict; Children celebrate their roots; Conference attempts to decode the loss of language issue; Special deals offered as Star Trek exhibit's run nears end; Swansea Tesco Welsh-English signs to different exits; Alabama Supreme Court won't end rape case against Madison man who speaks only obscure Spanish dialect [sic] and lacks interpreter; Opinion: Universities teaching in English without thinking; The Danish language's irritable vowel syndrome; Dual-language immersion targets both immigrant and native-born students; EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania; Claremont Immersion Program Honored by Spanish Government; ’No plans to phase out Afrikaans’ - UJ; Signing Hedda Gabler; French immersion: Mais nonFrench immersion: Mais non; Searching for Yiddish Land; M-I-C-K-E-Y Mouse Teaches Chinese Children to Speak English, Love Disney; A champion of Creole; Pastor recovers from disorder that hampered ability to read, write, understand others; CBAAC: Harnessing beauty of mother tongues in Africa; Home drives -- and pulls -- a UC Berkeley student; Govt urged to recognise sign language; ‘French Immersion’ movie mirrors satirical vision of NDP boot camp; Delhi meeting to discuss Goa's linguistic deadlock; Preserving Kashmiri language; Plaid AM raises concerns about Welsh language use in Assembly Chamber; 93% of Maltese internet surfers use foreign language online
11: Interpreting the language of whales; Baby sign language becoming a classroom standard; Last of the Typewritans; First Iban dictionary ready in July; No getting lost in translation; Triple Word Score: 3,000 new words added to the Scrabble dictionary; Sri Lanka Malay Our Mother Tongue; Signing on every day; Accents that can speak volumes about who we are; Oath to be taken in six languages by MSPs; Language, Aaj and Kal
10: Grad Student will study and teach Cherokee Language, thanks to new Fellowship; No niche too specialist for skilled English language teachers; Feature: Learning Chinese brings dream true for Pakistani student; A school without any traditional Finnish surnames; Twisting tongues: Sweden's sexiest dialect; Preserving language: Special project aims to keep Halq'emeylem alive; International websites need at least 16 languages to be competitive online; NDP set to wade into language debates, but proposed changes would be modest; President: Georgian-Azerbaijanis must succeed; Bilingualism is no advantage when studying foreign languages at upper secondary school; Lessons From a Latinist; India asks Taiwan for 10,000 Mandarin teachers; Pirivena Teachers stress need for learning Tamil language; English: it's a neologism thang, innit
9: A second language for every high school student; Spanish Language Contact Center Solutions: What is Dialect?; Artificial grammar learning reveals inborn language sense; Speak Like a Local With Eton Institute’s Emirati Conversation Course; Talk with a dolphin via underwater translation machine; Dear parent: why your dyslexic child struggles with reading; Summer Chinese language camp offered to elementary students; Poor language skills 'leave Britons out of EU jobs'; State Library of Queensland sings with Indigenous voices; Otávio Good's Instant Translator; Corporate America Takes On Multilingual PR; Stroll Announces Launch of the Annual Pimsleur Approach Foreign Language Study Scholarship; Scaling language barriers as an expat in Africa; Technology gives voice to the disabled; Wales: Hotel Language Ban Protest
8: Israel's Arab minority to get TV station; Military language training draws words of praise; Translating and interpreting is a growing, but uneven, industry; Vietnamese language helps to boost Vietnam-Italy ties; Japanese, Chinese popular at high schools; Do You Have the Guts to Play Klingon Monopoly?; One Day of Language Requests; Youngsters forming Sanskrit speaking communities; English has real staying power as a world language; Exchange Program Families To Host Spanish Students; In crisis-hit Spain, language training booms; Why there is mass failure in English language; Presenting the new orthographies; College of Mount St. Joseph grads get a lesson in Lakota wisdom; 1915 deprived Turkey of its Armenian language publications; Gift from Sealaska allows Native language fund at UAS to reach endowed status; Bangladesh: Indigenous Peoples Demand Constitutional Safeguard Of Indigenous Languages In A Seminar At Birisiri Small Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Academy
7: Jaffna- War Tourism And Language Imposition; House committee approves bill to make English the official language in Texas; Guatemala: Voter Registration Drive in Four Mayan Languages; Holding on to the Sikh heritage in the U.S.; Clearwater company reaches deaf community with its own language; Why We Mix Up 'Osama' and 'Obama': A Linguistic Reason; The Military's quest for a universal translator; Birth, death certificates to go bilingual; Top smartphone travel apps; CBSL promotes Tamil language proficiency; Codename Geronimo
6: Interpreters available at Immigrant Welcome Centre; Chimpanzees' 66 gestures revealed; 'Motherese' important for children's language development; London’s Language Landscape; Translation tools: Student project bags Central aid; Qualified court interpreters in high demand in Kansas; Innovative teaching method in Sedro-Woolley leaves textbooks behind; A Literary Shape-Shifter; Writers awarded for their contribution to Indian languages; NSU holds 39th annual American Indian symposium
5: B.C. miners dig deep to save endangered indigenous languages; Preserving Gaelic Language Focus of Workshop; Mets Catcher Teaches Deaf Dog Sign Language; Translator bridges 2 languages and cultures; Watatita: 'Googlish' – A New Dialect for Local English Teachers; New start for Agence Bretagne Presse; Welsh language initiative Menter Iaith hosts Welsh on Tour Week; Today in History: 5 May 1925; The Translation Industry in China: Current Development and Potential for International Cooperation; Language and identity; Extinction of African Languages; Deaf prisoners sue Illinois Department of Corrections; Looking beyond English; Colombia celebrates "Feast of the Languages"
4: Big turnout for Ojibwe conference; Video: Oregon woman wakes up from surgery with foreign accent; Kalinga schools use local dialect in teaching; U international programs face large cut from feds; A Thief That Robs the Brain of Language; Finding on Dialects Casts New Light on the Origins of the Japanese People; English - Arabic and Japanese - English Translations Skyrocket in Times Of Recent Crisis Reports Globalization Index of One Hour Translation; A world view lost when a language dies; Report to restrict gaelscoileanna; Nothing Regional or Foreign about Language; What’s in the name?
3: T-Index: Which Languages Offer the Best Online Sales Potential?; First ever Oireachtas Gaeilge Cheanada to be held in July; Toddlers get immersion in kapa haka; Distr. 28 residents rank Spanish, Chinese, French as ‘most important’ world languages; Appalachian holds Russian language institute for high school students in July; Birds invent new songs in evolutionary fast-forward; Speaking multiple languages can give you multiple personalities; Want to learn Pashto? There's an app for that; 16 iPhone users already downloaded “iTetr Armenian Keyboard” app
2: Colleges Adding Live-In Language Immersion Programs; Toughening language tests for court interpreters limiting number of interpreters; Q&A: Thomas Bever; China's Tibetan TV channel popular with diverse programs, like Prince William's wedding; Jeremy lifts sign language profile; New picture dictionary ensures Luritja language is alive and well; Hearing Impaired Men Stabbed At Hallandale Beach Bar; Esperanto speakers' fight to keep language alive; Punjab CM calls upon Punjabi diaspora for united efforts to promote Punjabi and Punjabiat; University teacher obsessed with Chinese language learning in Rio de Janeiro
1: English adopted as a world language; Sounds familiar; The dilution of Arabic...; Boswell's Scots dictionary found after 200 years; SA still divided by language barriers; The ghettoization of literature; Guide will help you to understand the writings of poet William Barnes; LECNY to hold Annual May Celebration; 'Urdu is linguistic Taj Mahal of India'

April 2011

30: Signing opens doors for many; Northwest Territories: South Slave Minister’s Regional Forum On Aboriginal Student Achievement Focuses On Revitalizing Language And Culture; The joys of a small print run; Wasauksing residents question candidates’ intentions; Study finds Polish immigrants pick up UK accent easily; Shock quote for bilingual sign sparks debate over dual-language policy; The Return of Bilingual Ed Plague?; Government committed to develop local languages to promote culture; Lapsing languages offer different view of world; Classes to teach Hul'qumi'num; Full Frame Film Festival 2011: 'Project Nim'; Language learning software coming soon to a library near you; Warning: Kate Middleton Better Learn to 'Parler Français' During the Royal Honeymoon; Speaking an Indigenous language linked to youth wellbeing; Forum looks at expanding Native American classes; Learn from the Indian experience; The World’s Most Popular Mobile Language-Learning Apps Debut on Android Phones; Interpreting music into American Sign Language; African American Entrepreneur Takes International Leap into the Philippines; Pinoy Kasi: ‘Binisaya’; Illiterates in our own language; Otjiherero dictionary launched
29: Probing Question: Is Latin valuable for today's students?; Increasing Interest In Foreign Languages; Anglos must make themselves heard; UN office in Yerevan marks English Language Day; Call for more support teachers; Bunker Hill Community College Student Wins Critical Language Scholarship; Full Frame Film Festival 2011: 'We Still Live Here'; Storehouse of treasure; CNMI PSS proclaims May as Chamorro, Carolinian Heritage Language Month; Uttarakhand sets up separate Sanskrit education board
28: Book on words has a lot to say; Irving ISD candidate takes issue with English instruction; Budgeting In All Languages; SpeakMandarin.com Adds a Significant Customer; SpanglishBaby Launches School Library Contest Winning School Will Take $500 Worth of Bilingual and Spanish Books; AG, DAG put on notice in case to make Urdu, Sindhi official languages; Rwanda: Reflections On Language; Scholars slam Manipur government; Digitizing Balinese Lontars; Everybody’s talking (and translating) with Chrome
27: 28 years for the good book; The Meaning of Words: New Evidence of Ancient Maya History; India struggles to find Hindi words for English science terms; Charter school supporters defend proposed facilities; Linguistics: Not Just a Whole Lot of Talk; Province Celebrates 15th Gaelic Awareness Month; Sign language thrives in Federal Way schools | ASL counts as foreign language class; Optimus keyboard speaks your language, whatever it is; Emory Website to Track African Slave Origins; Summer program helps with speech, language and hearing; Twitter Adds Support for Russian, Turkish; Tribals demand Kherwal state; No work for a dream immigrant?; Conference on theoretical pragmatics, Berlin, Germany; Amazon joins Apple’s ‘app store’ linguistic debate; Linguistics successfully finishes first year; First functional online Slovak course launched; Foreign languages in decline in State schools; Unlock secrets of foreign languages at HUFS; Graduation Ceremony to be Translated into Spanish; New textbook endeavors to preserve endangered language; Ofsted report finds multilingual school helps pupils flourish; Chinese Twitter-like Service Looks to Add Other Languages; Lecturer attacks Labour’s plan for bilingual schools; French classes no longer mandatory in Calgary public schools; How expats are learning their local language; Qapco helps launch QSRSN's Sign Language Atlas; GADHOH urges GRTS to employ sign language interpreters; Lost In Translation: American Decodes Weird Spanish Slang; 70% of Interviewed Teachers Found Fluent in Estonian; Amazon launches German-language Kindle book store; The King James Bible and the English language; ARCHIE To Offer Spanish-Language Digital Comics; Gaelic speakers over 60 from Western Isles needed!; Contest of projects for preservation of literary language in Azerbaijani media launched; Language wars in South Tyrol; Code talker describes experiences behind enemy lines during WWII; Good Characters finds art in science of translation; Armenian education minister’s visit to Georgia produces desirable results; Creole-speaking guards face discrimination: group; Iyeska, the Interpreter; Kannada language learning centres to be set up overseas; Esperanto, the International Language of Brotherhood
26: NMSU Las Cruces Student Receives Five-Year Stanford Scholarship; Britain to allow those who know Indian languages to be jury; Kaaththaankudi UC defends Arabic usage in name boards; The Linguistic Landscape of Sustainability: Green Progeria; Once Upon a Time in America…: Small Armenian community in N. Carolina gathers around Church; English fluency grows in St. Vrain Valley School District; Tunisia's Berbers test the limits of country's newfound freedoms; Keeping The Tatar Language Alive With Poetry And Song; Kapampangan is 7th online; Tips For Recognizing Documents With Mixed Languages; Storm over taxis for Gaelic pupils; Google Translate has great uses, disastrous misuses; Rosetta Translation launches new freelance recruitment initiative; Mobile App Helps Users Learn Language From Real Life; Souderton police may soon habla español; What would happen if YouTube & Wikipedia hooked up?; Turkish university to offer Armenian language courses
25: Exhibit on "Pidgin: How was, how stay" opens on Saturday, May 7; Vote 2011: Welsh Labour latest with manifesto mistakes; Funding for new Welsh-language school for Canton gets go ahead; Colonial Concerns; How to craft ads in other languages; Broadway Sign Language Interpreter Alan Champion Dies at 55; Musicians & Educators Join Together To Teach Children An “Essential” Second Language; Early Intervention catches children up; Witsman ‘talks the talk’ in her career; Language issues highlight northern debate; Expanding Language by (Online) Degrees; Be proud of national language, says Muhyiddin; Sign Language Community to come next fall: Open to select students; Montreal's love of all things Irish; Indigenous languages of New Brunswick: an endangered heritage; Mississaugas of New Credit striving to create a language ‘renaissance’; Getting in the last word; LU teachers, students cry foul on thesis in English; Nehiyaw Pimatisiwin Cree language and culture program; GE: Dr Yaacob disappointed with negative reactions to Malay language issue; UN independent expert urges Austria to promote cultural diversity and rights; Global language; Sign language taster sessions on offer in Alvechurch; Microsoft Launches Windows 7 Amharic Language; Learn to speak one of more than 50 languages through Lane Libraries program; The mother tongues: Learning Spanish and English unites children; Signing Babies = Smarter Babies?
24: A mansion of many languages; Radio Discourses analyzed; International Academy of Greenwich could open next year and will offer the International Baccalaureate programme; First Nations Leadership Calls on Next Federal Government to Honour Education Agreement; Look Who’s Talking: Four Animals Who Could; Language cards intended to help SD responders who encounter non-English speaking people; Coastal residents aim to preserve rich African culture; MSU to host undergraduate linguistics conference; China encourages promotion of Portuguese-language talents; World Bank Faults Itself for Slow Progress in East Timor; Flushing sign debate rages on; Student performs Cherokee song at NSU symposium; Cops get lingo lesson to tackle Maoists; Dictionary Publisher Federal Street Press Presents 2011 Back-to-School Lineup; State language development; Linguistic skills lose their charm at Panjab University; Glasgow University could scrap language courses because of budget cuts; Signs of love: Churches of Christ in Ethiopia serve the hearing-impaired; In praise of urban dictionaries; Amazigh campaigners challenge parties
23: Language policy won't haunt English medium schools this year; `Time for Tanzania to consolidate unity`; Acheampong Revisited; A Little Book of Language by David Crystal – review; David and Goliath at the United Nations; United States: Intermediate Creek: Mvskoke Emponvkv Hokkolat; Kirkconnel tongue inspires writer’s win; Hranush Hakobyan receives Ukrainian Ambassador
22: Smaller schools get Immersion trial; Businesses respond to Welsh language school plans in Penmaenmawr; Today's 'technological dialect' showing up in student work; Prestigious honour for Anglo Norman dictionary that has been 60 years in the making; Klingon is out of this world, linguistically; Arabic Calligraffiti: How Calligraphy Found Its Way Into Urban Arts; Learning Chinese is new craze at American schools; Vietnam to open official Korean language institute; Taught to the tune of a hickory stick: Swahili simplified; Linguists rush to save language spoken by three people; Vernacular languages institute works for standardisation of idioms; Lost in translation: Scientist studies the neural origins of speech disorders; ‘Linguists’ laments languishing languages; Dialogues on diversity: Indigenous cultures
21: New kiwi dialect devised for film; French School Spring Show A True Testament of Immersion Education; Human Rights report expressed troubles on Javakhk situation; "Language ban" Anglesey hotel defends position; Bill to help immigrants sharpen English Skills introduced; English Language Day Care Provision On Rise In Helsinki; Evolution of Human 'Super-Brain' Tied to Development of Bipedalism, Tool-Making; Demand for new academy for regional languages; Review set to reignite bilingual signs row; UN celebrates Chinese Language Day with art and exhibitions; Language students take honors at fair; Government Giving Due Recognition To Mandarin, Says Muhyiddin; Poles living in Lithuania are endangered; English no threat to Danish; Zubeyda: Helping others “hear with eyes”; Access to indigenous interpreting 'poor'; Is Fast ForWord a backward step?; Chinese Language Day observed at the UN Office in Armenia; Arabic Names Spell Trouble for Banks; Publication: A Grammar of Old English; Baby sign language all in the hands, say Moms; Translation scamble after embarrasing error in youth Catechism; Mistranslating Hollywood
20: First Demers foreign language fellowships awarded; States address English-only license testing; Need a painkiller? Try cursing...; Psst, Military: There’s Already a Universal Translator in the App Store; U of T prof wins Killam Prize for work on Slavey language; Two languages of Kazakhstan; Chinese Characters Exhibition Held in Vienna; Mikheil Saakashvili informed the government about the new initiatives; Sinn Fein: the key issue is cross-border co-operation; Ideas We Like: Corporate-Jargon-to-English Dictionary; Cave Creek district to expand K-8 world language program; The Mystery of Language; Seven Years! New Kituwah Academy celebrates anniversary
19: Beyond Newspeak; Should English be the Official Language of the United States?; Kurds alter cultural and linguistic fabric of non-Kurdish areas around Iraq’s Mosul; Expert System's Cogito Semantic Technology Awarded Patent; The Bard of Animation, Space and Dreams: Part Two; Immersion students see variety of experiences; Exalead and Basis Technology Partnership Extends Capabilities of Exalead Information Access Platform; Deaf rapper coming to Christchurch; Has India Squandered its English Advantage?; New Book 'Automatic Fluency' Rated #1 by Language Expert; Learning languages: myth and reality; Honesty and language: Economical with the truth?; In the Fight for Language Survival, Technology Helps Shift the Balance of Power; Turkish PM's 'retreat' on Kurdish issue draws criticism; What's the Native American Man Saying in "Meek's Cutoff"?; How the Bilingual Brain Copes With Aging: As Brain Power Decreases, Older Adults Find New Ways to Compute Language; Falling enrollments force Arizona schools to be creative; Forty languages challenge Q-C educators; China helps King's birthday project: Buddhist scriptures to be translated into Thai; Nigeria Short Of Interpreters; Commission on Alaska Native Languages; JMU teams up with Rosetta Stone: University offers new online Spanish class; Australia’s Indigenous languages “Top 10 moments in the sun”
18: Grand Ayatollah Javadi Amoli stresses the need to learn foreign languages; Q&A: Teaching actors the fine subtleties of a Canadian accent; Students Make Film To Save Dying 'Konkani' Language; Confronting the Mass Extinction of Languages; Sign-language interpreter says Donald Trump easier than many pols to translate; Obituary: Professor Edward Ullendorff; Refugee settlement poses many challenges; The bang of the dialect; Port Orchard woman's a hit on Guam; Mt. Halla Bracken Festival set for Saturday; Translations that have helped shape languages; Some languages disappearing in modern world; The List: Five fictional languages; Misinformation about Russian schools in Estonia being spread in Europe; The evolution of language: Two origin stories; Turkey' Changemakers: Nihat Kihtir lifts barriers to participation through sign language; Arabic second-most common Australian tongue; Now Listen To 24 Languages Via Android Google Translate; Science’s best: Young scientists showcase to the world their new discoveries; Google News for Opera Mini in 29 languages; Lawmakers consider making "English" official language of Texas; KBWG Brings Blackfoot Language Lessons to the Airwaves; Researcher studies sparrow language at Bullards; The evolution of language: Babel or babble?; Girl, 10, who lost her sight after a brain tumour becomes fluent in four languages; Human Language Origins Traced to Africa, Study Finds; Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter; Parents' 'Um's' and 'Uh's' Help Toddlers Learn New Words, Cognitive Scientists Find; Still no support for Middle-eastern languages in Windows Phone 7.5?; Worldictionary Instantly Translates Fifty Languages through iPhone Camera App; Kingsgate Primary school where 36 languages are spoken by pupils, is rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted
17: Languages top election issue in Finland; National Democratic Party to Protest on Mother Language Day; Nelson dialect phrases to be carved on stone cubes; Ashland’s ‘Language Archive’ Speaks to Our Complexity; Mandla Mandela backs language move; Sensitivity 'essential' for translating international standards; A Bronx Boy's Bond With Lenape People; Indigenous theatre company is born; Reincarnation of Stories: New play, to be performed in Tlingit, opens tonight; Video: New Yawk Accents, The Documentary; Teaching English overseas: Graduates with a foreign language have a huge edge in the job market; More about the Alutiiq Language Program; Language at risk of dying out – the last two speakers aren't talking; Why do Ukrainian-speaking parents have Russian-speaking children?; Are languages shaped by culture or cognition?; Three Books For The Grammar Lover In Your Life; The thorny thicket of "th-" sounds; Swedish language under threat in Finland: report; Dialect of renowned Leintwardine parlour pub landlady captured in book; Fears for Cornish Language Partnership; Govt support for Maori language plan uncertain; Meet Duolingo, Google’s Next Acquisition Target; Learn A Language, Help The Web; Revival of a dying language; Conference aims to preserve Indigenous languages; Oracle Bone Scripts Captivate Tourists; American Sign Language bill becomes law; Protests grow over Welsh language broadcasting cuts; ‘Language proficiency will enhance unity’; Slovakia: Nationalists want referendum against minority languages; What about freedom from language discrimination?; Exclusive: Early Christian Lead Codices Now Called Fakes; Deaf rescue dog now learning sign language; Sweden fails its Roma minority: report; Preserving African Indigenous Languages; how useful is it?; The first children and youth festival of Avar language to take place in Dagestan; European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages to be implemented in Dagestan; Phonetic Flashcards May Help the Future of Language; Endangered First Nation Languages: Launch of the Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim - Xwelíten Sníchim Skexwts.; Native American Language Fair; SOU hosts World Language Day; Fight to save national taonga; PanSALB seconds call to revive African languages; Learning Arabic at a Jewish school; Everyone's a writer; Identity dies when tongues are silenced
8: Writing on the Wall: House 77’s Typographic Architecture; New Confucius Institute established in Moscow; What is a language?: When Easy Questions Demand Tough Answers; Latvians may speak broken English; ESL – Language Studies Abroad Elected Best Agency in Europe; Tadić calls on citizens to freely express their affiliation; 'Auf Englisch bitte' (In English, please); Lincoln High offers Arabic language course; FBI wants help decoding mysterious notes found on body; John Smelcer/Author Interview: Writer from the Far North; Learn Mandarin Easily and Affordably with PinyinReaders.com; Estonia aims for Estonian at all schools; Oldest readable writing found in Europe
6: Microsoft taps linguist in 'App Store' trademark spat; Yiddish at the Expense of Education?; Think twice about Dr. Seuss
5: Phone application corrupts and distorts language; Phone application facilitates communication; Language Assessment in Context (1); Bemba’s Soldiers Could Have Been Multilingual; Arizona English language screening to change

March 2011

30: LCC graduates 99 from inaugural workplace literacy program; Every Indian school should teach Urdu: Kapil Sibal; Andhra Pradesh government gives English push at primary education level; Growing Diversity Fuels Chinese School
29: Bilingual kids fall behind at school: study; Nokia adds Malagasy, its 87th language, to the Series 40 library

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