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The Indigenous Language Institute has also worked to provide language resources and services to indigenous groups digitally, whether it be through videos, transcribed texts, or online seminars. [5] In 2012, the Indigenous Language Institute partnered with Google to create an up-to-date list of endangered languages that could be accessed online. [7]
International Decade of Indigenous Languages is an initiative launched by the United Nations with a mission to raise awareness on Indigenous language preservation, revitalization and promotion. The initiative is launched as per the suggestion from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues, the UN general assembly has declared the decade starting ...
Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) Symposium on Second Language Writing; 4th International ESP Conference, Nis, Serbia [4]
The four-day Annual Meeting co-meets with a number of sister organizations such as the American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics ...
SSILA has an annual winter meeting held in association with the Linguistic Society of America's annual conference. Summer meetings are held in alternate years at venues near the LSA's Summer Institute. Presentations at SSILA meetings may be made in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or an Indigenous American language.
The International Year of Indigenous Languages was a United Nations observance in 2019 that aimed to raise awareness of the consequences of the endangerment of Indigenous languages across the world, with an aim to establish a link between language, development, peace, and reconciliation.
Over a thousand known languages were spoken by various peoples in North and South America prior to their first contact with Europeans. These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus).
In 2021, the 24th edition had 7,139 modern languages, an increase of 22 living languages from the 23rd edition. Editors especially improved data about language shift in this edition. [33] In 2022, the 25th edition listed a total of 7,151 living languages, an increase of 12 living languages from the 24th edition.