(NAME-MCE) 15th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium May 2-3 Flagstaff AZ

[Anselmo Villanueva]

15th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium

Language is Life: Strategies for Language Revitalization

High Country Conference Center, Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, Arizona, May 2-3, 2008

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The National Geographic Society's Enduring Voices Project notes that every
two weeks another of the world's languages is no longer being spoken. The
Project identified five language "hot spots" around the world where Native
languages are most rapidly being lost, three of which are in the Americas:
the Northwest Pacific Plateau, the Southwestern United States and Oklahoma,
and Central South America. For the past fifteen years, the Stabilizing
Indigenous Languages Symposiums have been disseminating information about
effective practices to teach and learn Indigenous languages. Held across the
United States and Canada, these symposiums have brought together community
language activists, language teachers and linguists to share and disseminate
ways to revitalize our precious Indigenous linguistic heritage so that it
will not be lost to our children.