Linguistic Scientist

This year, UNESCO celebrates the International Year of Languages and this organization invites “governments, United Nations organizations, civil society organizations, educational institutions, professional associations and all other stakeholders to increase their own activities to promote and protect all languages, particularly endangered languages, in all individual and collective contexts.” They also are elaborating a database of projects that have to do with multilingualism and languages were you can fill in and, I think the most important goal, they want to improve our linguistic investigations: “Projects in the field of science aimed at enhancing communication and collaboration between scientific researchers and institutions across linguistic divides; translating and disseminating scientific materials to communities in order to overcome language barriers; recognizing the central role of vernacular languages in indigenous ways of knowing”. There’s the UNESCO’s main page. I’m really sure this year is going to be amazing… all of us can increase our efforts to make that possible. In fact, I also recommend you The UNESCO Courier, an issue were you can read lots of articles on languages, some of them, really interesting. Go on!