LINGUIST List 33.1348
Fri Apr 15 2022
FYI: Talk at the Analytics and Discussion Club on Language Policy at the Institute of Linguistics, RAS
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 06-Apr-2022
From: Erzhen Khilkhanova <erzhen.khilkhanova
iling-ran.ru>
Subject: Talk at the Analytics and Discussion Club on Language Policy at the Institute of Linguistics, RAS
E-mail this message to a friend Analytics and Discussion Club on Language Policy at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is happy to announce a talk LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT AND DOCUMENTATION IN BRAZIL
Speaker: Denny Moore, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – a research institute of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
This talk will be very general and presuppose no knowledge of native Brazil. To provide a background for understanding the situation of the indigenous languages of Brazil, a short history of the indigenous peoples, their contact with Europeans and the effects of this contact will be given. A sketch of the history of the study of the native languages in Brazil will be presented. Then the current situation of the indigenous languages and peoples will be discussed. The progress and prospects of language documentation in Brazil will be described, to give some idea of what is happening in this field. Lastly, the needs of the indigenous communities will be explained.
Date and time: 19 April, 2022 at 4:00 pm (Moscow time, UTC+3)
Moderator: Andrej Kibrik, Director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Timing: 1 hour + 2 hours discussion
Languages: English and Russian
Join via Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84490960806?pwd=Y0hPbXBoVVFUMkRQTzZvaU9aaE54QT09 Meeting ID: 844 9096 0806
Passcode: 025126
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
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