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Preserve an endangered language by turning it into art

One way to preserve an endangered language is to turn it into art. For over twenty years, Moroccan artist Hamid Kachmar has been using his paintings to help keep alive an embattled, indigenous language. Tifinagh is the ancient script of the Berbers, a minority ethnic group in Morocco to which Kachmar belongs. Tifinagh has been suppressed historically in Morocco, but Kachmar makes the script's intricate symbols the main element of his colorful art. In some pieces, like the first one below, "Timitar 1 Symbols in Symbiosis," the symbols are presented in neat fashion, as if they were being catalogued. In others, like the second image, "Tafsut Berber ...

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization National Indigenous Languages Policy of Australia Languages Services Policy of the Queensland Government The Western Australian Language Services Policy Language Services Policy of the Northern Territory Government Language Services Policy 2005 of the Victorian Government DECCW Aboriginal Languages Policy 2009 of the New South Wales Governement ACT Community Language Schools Association Mr Javed Mehr – President GPO Box 1353, CANBERRA, ACT 2601 Tel : 6230 5191 Emai; : admin@actclsa.org.au Web: http://www.actesa.org.au/ Ethnic Schools Association of ...

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Mother Language Walk As part of IMLM's first milestone is to host this inaugural annual community walk in Canberra on Friday 21 February 2014 between 5.30pm and 7.30pm. Day: Friday Date: 21 February 2014 Time:  5:30pm until 7:30pm in UTC+11 Venue: Peace Park, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, AustraliaPeace Park View event details Planning Workshop As part of the initial planning phase, we have planned to organise a workshop to share backgrounds, goals, thoughts, pathways, roles, process and programs among our peer Australian communities and peak organisations.  This workshop is the first of many to assist all of us to come up ...

About IMLM

International Mother Language Movement (IMLM) is an inclusive community based movement.  Given the historic connection to the genesis of Language Movement in 1952 by the Bangla (Bengali) speaking people in now what is Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi-Australian community in Canberra took the initiative to launch this movement with the vision of securing national recognition of 21 February as the International Mother Language Day (IMLD) and celebrating the day nationally under the auspices of the Australian Governments.  IMLM aims to build a Mother Language Monument in a place of national significance in Canberra, Australia by the year 2016. We welcome ...