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Indigenous Languages week Celebration at Penn

The Quechua Language Program and the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania are partnering to organize a week of events that promote indigenous language writers and indigenous language use in the Americas, with a special focus on Quechua (South America) and Zapotec (MesoAmerica).
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14.02.2019 - 31.12.2019

IYIL2019 LOGO Billboard

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Eskasoni Billboard

The showing of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages will create awareness in our community about the year and may spark interests, in non speakers to start speaking the language.
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Miawipuk Wi’kapaltimk (Mid Winter Feast)

Eskasoni will be hosting a mid winter community feast. The feast will have Music provided from Local entertainers in the Mi'kmaq language. There will also be a book launch to talk about Grand Chief Sylliboy and how he remembered his treaties through story telling. Last but not least, latest statistics in regards to the language will be shown to community members to encourage them to speak the language at home.
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Film Screening – Grammar of Happiness

Film screening of The Grammar of Happiness (2012). This film follows the story of linguist Daniel Everett and his work with the Piraha tribe in the Amazon and their language. He argues that it has a special syntax, unique among human languages.
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SOAS Language Fest

Join SOAS World Language Institute and the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) to celebrate International Mother Language Day. and UNESCO's International Year of Indigenous Languages, which aims to raise awareness and to promote and ensure access to indigenous languages. SOAS staff, students and visitors will come together to showcase SOAS work on languages.
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