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International Year of Languages - List of the projects

by December 2008

Resolution A/RES/61/266 (2006)

Erklärung des Jahres 2008 zum Internationalen Jahr der Sprachen.

Recommendations to UNESCO for Action Plans on the Safeguarding of Endangered Languages (2003)

The preamble of the Recommendations endorses the nine criteria determining the degree of language endangerment elaborated by the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages.

Language Vitality and Endangerment

Approved by the Participants of the International Expert Meeting on the UNESCO Programme "Safeguarding of Endangered Language", Paris, 10. – 12. März 2003.

Europäische Charta der Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen

Europarat, Strassburg, 5. November 1992

Publikationen

Language as a Heritage (Tourism Review, August 2008)

Languages, languages, languages. The dynamic systems of communication that form an inseparable part of human lives. Some of them are common to millions of people; some of them are spoken only by a few. Let’s learn about the language heritage people cherish, about groups of enthusiasts determined to save their language, about a new American language museum, or even about an author writing his books for a community that doesn’t really read much.

Eine lohnende Herausforderung

Wie die Mehrsprachigkeit zur Konsolidierung Europas beitragen kann. Vorschläge der von der Europäischen Kommission eingesetzten Intellektuellengruppe für den interkulturellen Dialog, Brüssel, 2008.

Languages matter

UNESCO Courier, Nr. 1/2008

UNESCOs approach to endangered languages

A bachelor thesis (2007) submitted by Nicole Affolter to the University of Basel.