The article ‘From exclusion to active intergenerational participation: a dubbing project in a minority indigenous language’ written by Ines García-Azkoaga and María Montory has just been published. It has been published in the journal Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, in an issue edited by the UNESCO Chair on Language Policies for Multilingualism.

The article explains about the dubbing workshop held to strengthen relations between the different generations in Sao Tome and Principe and to promote the minority language Forro. In this African island, the Forro language has less and less presence and prestige, and nowadays it is only spoken by the elderly, while the young people use Portuguese. Thanks to the NGO Cooperación Bierzo Sur, we had the opportunity to organise a workshop to dub some animations into Forro language, in order to strengthen intergenerational relations and help revitalise the Forro language. In this article you will find out about the experience.

Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura 29(3).

In a chronicle written in Garabide, Andoni Barreña tells us about his stay in Colombia in April 2024, first in Chocó and then in Cauca.

He spent the first few days at the Technological University of Chocó in the capital, Quibdó, to talk about language revitalisation strategies. In this area, Enbera is spoken by a community of more than 100,000 people.

Andoni spent the following days in Cauca. Garabide has been working for some time with the Nasa community on methodologies to revitalise the Nasa Yuwe language. This time they asked for help from the member of the Chair Andoni to reflect on a natural grammar.

Source: Garabide

Link: https://www.garabide.eus/espanol/noticias/en-colombia-con-los-amigos-indigenas-embera-y-nasa-cronica-de-andoni-barrena

The magazine Argia has interviewed Paula Laita, member of the Chair and researcher of the Sociolinguistics Cluster (Soziolinguistika Klusterra). She has written a thesis on the Tŝîlhqot'in people of the Yuneŝit'in community in British Columbia (Canada) after having lived in the community for ten years. She was appointed coordinator of a language revitalisation project and has used community-based methodologies to carry out this task.

Source: Argia

Read the whole interview here.

Professor Inés Garcia-Azkoaga, head of the Unesco Chair in World Linguistic Heritage, reflects on the value of linguistic heritage and the situation of risk in which almost half of the world's languages find themselves in a text written in Basque. The article has been published in the UPV/EHU's journal Campusa.

Read the artcile here.

The National Meeting of UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks of Spain was held in Cordoba on 16 and 17 October in Cordoba. A total of 35 of the 65 Spanish Chairs took part, including the Chair of World Linguistic Heritage of the UPV/EHU, which highlighted the importance of linguistic diversity at a round table.

Here is the media coverage of the meeting:

Bulletin of the University of Cordoba
La vanguardia

Last Friday, September 15, the new 2023-2024 Vocational Training course began at the Easo Politeknikoa Integrated Vocational Training Center in Donostia. The event was attended among others by the lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu and the Minister of Education Jokin Bildarratz. During the inauguration ceremony, the lehendakari made a special mention to the objective 17+1, which aims to guarantee the objective of language and culture.

Happy new school year!