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The Poio project develops language technologies to support communication in lesser-used and under-resourced languages on and with electronic devices. Within the Poio project we develop text input services with text prediction and transliteration for mobile devices and desktop users to allow conversation in hundreds of languages between individuals and in online communities. Poio started as a...

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Nous apprenons tous une ou plusieurs langues mais connaissons-nous bien ce moyen de communication universel ? Pourquoi autant de langues existent-elles? Beaucoup d'interrogations demeurent malgré notre pratique quotidienne du langage. Au travers d'une série de questions, il s'agit d'arriver à mieux comprendre les langues du monde, des plus connues aux plus rares, mais aussi de mieux...

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Quarta-feira,  30 de outubro. 10h. Auditório do Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Área Sul, UFSCar. Com Mutuá Mehinaku. Em parceria com as “Quartas Indomáveis” do PPGAS-UFSCar. Essa apresentação tratará de algumas questões apontadas pela pesquisa de mestrado (de título “Tetsualü: Pluralismo de línguas e pessoas no Alto Xingu.”) realizada no Museu Nacional/UFRJ, onde o...

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Estos dos últimos días, viernes 27 y sábado 28 de septiembre, se han celebrado en Sevillas las Jornadas Regionales sobre Plurilingüismo. Realmente hacía mucho tiempo que no se reunían los “pluris” andaluces y con este encuentro, organizado por la Dirección General de Innovación Educativa y Formación del Profesorado de la Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de...

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18 Ottobre 2013 - 10:06 (ASCA) - Cagliari, 18 ott - Regione, associazioni, enti locali e Universita' di Edimburgo insieme per favorire il pluringuismo nell'isola. E' entrato nella fase operativa il progetto ''Bilinguismu creschet'', iniziato lo scorso anno attraverso un patto di collaborazione internazionale che ora viene presentato e fatto conoscere nei territori. Dalle ricerche della...

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Por Alexander Thoele, swissinfo.ch Basileia 20. Setembro 2013 - 11:00 Viver no exterior não significa apenas estar distante da família e amigos. Muitos migrantes sofrem com a falta de livros escritos no idioma materno. Para atender essa carência, voluntários criaram em várias partes da Suíça bibliotecas especiais. Um dos objetivos é também apoiar a integração dos...

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IS POLITICAL unity possible without a common language? Of course it is. Switzerland (four official languages), South Africa (11) and India (22 “scheduled” languages) are just a few examples. On the other hand, many of the world’s countries were born out of waves of nationalism, and built around the idea of one state for one “nation”. The nations in question were often those that...

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Vrijdag 27 september 2013 Zaterdag 28 september wordt op het Drongofestival in Amsterdam, een groot festival over meertaligheid, de website ‘Stemmen van Afrika’ gelanceerd. De website is een initiatief van taalwetenschappers Pieter Muysken (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) en Maarten Mous (Universiteit Leiden). Aan de hand van een groot aantal artikelen geeft de website inzicht in de...

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Los Angeles Times, August 20 2013, By Melissa Pandika

Anthropologists have puzzled for decades over why a complex patchwork of languages emerged in California thousands of years ago, but not in other parts of North America. New research now traces California’s linguistic diversity to its ecological diversity. >>>>>>>>>>>>>

The Index of Linguistic Diversity is the first-ever quantitative measure of trends in the world’s linguistic diversity. It tells us that, since 1970, global linguistic diversity has diminished by 20%. Indigenous linguistic diversity has decreased even more markedly in most regions of the world. The 16 largest world languages have increased their share of the world’s population from 45% to...

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Posted on July 28, 2013 by Hanna Torsh |  No. of posts 4  |  2,359 views In recent Australian political conversation, there is an increasingly bipartisan recognition of the value of cultural and linguistic diversity. So it’s fair to ask, what is Australian society offering those whom it characterises as “diverse”? As far as being multilingual goes, it seems highly skilled, highly...

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dilluns 15 de juliol de 2013 La meva amiga Imma, d'un poble de la Noguera, fa més de quaranta anys que viu a Itàlia, on ha desenvolupat la seva carrera professional com a investigadora i professora universitària. Allà va casar-se amb un grec i va tenir un fill, l'Alessandro. Des de ben petit, l'Alessandro és multilingüe: italià, català, grec, castellà. Més tard, anglès i suposo ...

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