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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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Events

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 ...

Endangered Languages Resource Page

People often approach us seeking information about the world’s most endangered languages. Students ask us, “I want to help with language documentation, but where do I begin? What kind of projects are going on where I could be of use?” In an effort to celebrate and promote all the language documentation initiatives currently going on, we put together this resource page with as many links to regional and global language archives as we could find. Some citizen media links are also included. This resource page will benefit all people interested in exploring what is out there on the web related to endangered language research, and it will give ...

Lepcha Manuscript reveals earliest stages of Lepcha literary heritage

This is a Lepcha Manuscript. These manuscripts are found in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Sikkim in India. The Lepcha people are local to Sikkim but represent a minority of the population in Sikkim and neighbouring areas. The culture and language has been diminishing for over a century as many young Lepcha give preference to learning English or Nepalese and are less interested in their traditions. The Lepcha people have their own indigenous script which dates back to the 18th century. The manuscripts reveal the earliest stages of Lepcha literary heritage. The oldest handwritten materials that have so far been identified were written in the second half ...

IMLM event ‘Language Walk’ featured in The Chronicle

The Chronicle, a Canberra based newspaper has run in today's edition (Tuesday, 18 February 2014) a news on the upcoming IMLM event 'Language Walk'. IMLM thanks the Chronicle for running this news.