The International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019: Perspectives Conference

Dates

31 October–2 November, 2019 (Thu.–Sat.)

Venue

Purdue University Fort Wayne
(Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.)

Program

31 October

Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy) at ILCAA Panel: The Japanese Initiative to Build Collaborative Network for Documentation of Under-studied Languages (in Africa, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Russia)

Chairs: Honoré WATANABE and Toshihide NAKAYAMA

10:00–

• Daisuke SHINAGAWA, Yuko ABE, and Seunghun LEE
  “Collaborating to document linguistic diversity in African contexts”
  

10:30–

• Yanti, Asako SHIOHARA, Peter COLE, and Gabriella HERMON
  “Efforts in documenting endangered languages in linguistically diverse locales: Searching for better approaches”

11:00–

• Keita KURABE and Lu Aung
  “Kachin Orature Project: Documentation, maintenance, and revitalization of the oral heritage in northern Myanmar”

11:30–

• Tokusu KUREBITO and Jargal BADAGAROV
  “Documentation of Siberian Indigenous Languages: The case of Buryad and Chukchi”

Two attempts to secure the future of Ainu—online Ainu materials and descriptions in Ainu (Panel)

16:00–

• Chair: Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI

16:30–

• Osami OKUDA, Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI, Miki KOBAYASHI, and Mika FUKAZAWA
  “Online audio materials of the Ainu language collected in the latter half of the twentieth century: For future generations of Ainu and the research community”

Endangered languages in Japan: Focus on the Ryukyuan languages and dialects of Tohoku districts (Panel)

16:00–

• Hayato AOI and Toshihide NAKAYAMA
  “Actions for revitalizing the endangered languages and dialects in Japan”

17:30–

• Tomoyo OTSUKI and Hiroyuki SHIRAIWA
  “Attempts to describe a mother tongue in Aomori and Fukushima, the northeastern region of Japan”

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• A collection of papers based on this symposium has been published. (Added 13 February, 2023)

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