LINGUIST List 21.2613 Wed Jun 16 2010 Confs: Javanese, Sunda, Madura, Socioling, General Ling/Indonesia Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Thomas Conners, International Symposium on the Languages of Java 3 Message 1: International Symposium on the Languages of Java 3 Date: 15-Jun-2010 From: Thomas Conners <oranghutancbn.net.id> Subject: International Symposium on the Languages of Java 3 E-mail this message to a friend International Symposium on the Languages of Java 3 Short Title: ISLOJ 3 Date: 23-Jun-2011 - 24-Jun-2011 Location: Malang, East Java, Indonesia Contact: Thomas Conners Contact Email: oranghutancbn.net.id Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Javanese (jav) Sunda (sun) Madura (mad) Bali (ban) Sasak (sas) Meeting Description: The third International Symposium on the Languages of Java will be held 23-24 June 2011, in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. As in the past, this conference will focus on all linguistic aspects of the languages of Java, broadly understood: Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Balinese, and Sasak; and also, possibly, varieties of Malay spoken in those language areas. A call for papers and further information on the conference will follow shortly. Please address all questions to Thomas Conners at oranghutancbn.net.id. The island of Java is home to several major languages. Javanese-- spoken mainly in Central and East Java-- is the world's 11th largest language in number of native speakers; has one of the oldest and fullest recorded histories of any Austronesian language; and has the most fully articulated phenomenon of speech levels of any language. Sundanese --spoken in West Java-- has over 30 million speakers, and Madurese-- spoken on the neighboring island of Madura and throughout parts of East Java -- has over 13 million speakers. The speech level system is shared by the geographically, historically, and linguistically related languages on the neighboring islands of Bali and Lombok. Each of these languages displays a range of dialects, isolects, continua, and contact varieties and yet they have received relatively little attention from linguists. With this symposium, we offer an opportunity for scholars working on any aspect of Javanese, Sundanese, and Madurese, Balinese and Sasak to come together and share their findings. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.