Workshops

SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT 6
 
Research Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia
Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand 22-23 July 2020
 
Co-organised by Comité International Permanent des Linguistes
 
Language endangerment is the major challenge confronting linguistics in the 21^st century; a large proportion of the world’s languages are endangered. This is the sixth in a series previously held at ELDP, the LSA Summer Institute, Yunnan Minzu University, Payap University and the 20^th International Congress of Linguistics in Cape Town, discussing the sociolinguistic factors driving this process and how to react to it.
 
Please submit abstracts by 30 March 2020 for 15+5 minute presentations to SoLangEnd6@gmail.com 
 
The Salaya campus of Mahidol University is at Phuttamonthon District, Nakhon Pathom Province, to the west just outside the metropolitan district of Bangkok. There is limited accommodation available in the on-campus four-star hotel
Salaya Pavillion Hotel
Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakhon Pathom 73170
rsvn@salayapavillion.com
+66 2441 0568 or +66 2441 0569
 
Workshop Theme: Mapping Endangered Languages
There have been various attempted inventories of the endangered languages of the world, some stand-alone and others embedded in overall surveys. The aim of this workshop is to bring the leaders in all the main projects together and work out a co-operative way forward. CIPL has been one of the leaders in this process since 1991, and through UNESCO produced the Atlas of Languages in Danger, 1^st and 2^nd editions among many other atlases. The Ethnologue has been the largest and longest-running atlas of all the world’s languages, with 22 editions since 1951 and another to be released 21 February 2020. The Catalogue of Endangered Languages, based at the University of Hawaii, is a web-based listing. The Russian UNESCO Committee is co-ordinating an atlas of communication covering the entire world. The Foundation for Endangered Languages has been deeply involved since 1996, and was responsible for the 3^rd edition of the UNESCO Atlas of Languages in Danger; its editor, Christopher Moseley, also edited three edition of the Routledge Atlas of the World’s Languages among other related things. Suwilai Premsrirat has since long been leading a team at Mahidol University both documenting endangered languages around Thailand and helping communities to maintain them.
 
Keynote Speakers:
David Bradley, President, Comité International Permanent des Linguistes
Dave Eberhard & Gary Simons, Ethnologue
Gary Holton, ELCat Project
Evgeny Kuzmin, Russian UNESCO Committee
Christopher Moseley, FEL and UNESCO Atlas of Languages in Danger
Suwilai Premsrirat, RILCA, Mahidol University