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		<title>Australia releases draft framework for language learning</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/australia-releases-draft-framework-for-language-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its Year 10 Australian Curriculum: Languages program, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has released its Draft Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages. The draft is open for suggestions and feedback through 25 July. Read more in &#8220;Schools get guide for indigenous languages&#8221; and &#8220;Consultation of the draft Australian [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1829&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call for papers: PARADISEC</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/call-for-papers-paradisec/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 01:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, has put out its second call for papers for its conference to be held 2-3 December 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. Get the details here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1826&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pali in opera</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 01:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pāli (pli)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Siddhārtha Gautama, the most well known buddha, lived around the fifth century BCE. It is believed that he spoke an Indo-Aryan dialect, such as Pali (pli). Pali is also the language of many early Buddhist scriptures and the Ethnologue says there are nine second-language speakers of Pali. In the mid-nineteenth century, opera great Richard Wagner [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1823&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ᓄᖃᕆᑦ</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/%e1%93%84%e1%96%83%e1%95%86%e1%91%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ᓄᖃᕆᑦ is &#8221;stop,&#8221; as now found on stop signs in the Canadian territory Nunavut. This month, the Official Languages Act came into force in Nunavat. According to the text of the law: &#8220;The Inuit Language, English and French are the Official Languages of Nunavut,&#8221; &#8220;To the extent and in the manner provided under this Act, the Official [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1821&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Australian government opens applications for funding</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/australian-government-opens-applications-for-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian government has allocated 12 million dollars (the AUD is currently approximately equivalent to the USD) over the next four years to support indigenous languages. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community groups are invited to submit applications through the end of May to receive funding from this allocation. Emma Waterman has written an article [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1818&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Less than 10 percent of Pakistani languages are healthy</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/less-than-10-percent-of-pakistani-languages-are-healthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 20:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the issues discussed at the First International Kashmir Conference on Linguistics 2013 is the decline of languages in Pakistan. Themed &#8220;Endangered Languages in Asia,&#8221; the conference was held on 15-16 May. According to the Ethnologue, 12 of the 72 Pakistani languages are in trouble or dying. Read more in &#8220;Conference on linguists: South Asian languages [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1815&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In defense of mandatory Zulu classes</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/in-defense-of-mandatory-zulu-classes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[isiZulu, or Zulu (zul), is the most widely spoken native language in South Africa and is spoken by about half of the population. The University of KwaZulu-Natal has announced it will make Zulu classes mandatory for incoming students, a move that has drawn criticism. As Pierre De Vos explains in &#8220;KZN University: A storm in a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1812&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High school senior revitalizing Salish</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/high-school-senior-revitalizing-salish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 04:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vance Home Gun, a high school senior, created an organization named &#8220;Yoyoot skwkwimlt&#8221; to promote Salish, also known as Montana Salish (fla). Read an interview with Gun in &#8220;Language Preservation Made Vance Home Gun a Champion for Change.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1810&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cree broadcast wins journalism award</title>
		<link>http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/cree-broadcast-wins-journalism-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 04:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC, has dozens of locations in Canada and around the world, including CBC North, which provides TV and radio broadcasts in languages such as Chipewyan (chp), Cree (cre), Dogrib (dgr), Gwich’in (gwi), Inuktitut (ike), Inuvialuk (ikt), North Slavey (scs) and South Slavey (xsl). This past weekend, the Canadian Association of Journalists held their annual conference, including an awards ceremony. Among [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1807&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report to the Human Rights council on declining minority languages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 01:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a report by Rita Izsak to the United Nations Human Rights Council in April, she cited various historical and other factors that are causing a decline in minority languages. International laws covering the rights to speak a minority language that she cited include: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglanguages.wordpress.com&#038;blog=268594&#038;post=1804&#038;subd=livinglanguages&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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