1. Introducing My Language… Who speaks it, where, and how?

2. New and Returning Speakers  New Speakers: - Look online - facts about your language - Discuss language endangerment scale - Share what you have learned on your web page  Returning Speakers: - Record a story

3. Why document?  Capture important linguistic and cultural knowledge.  Allow people an additional resource if they wish to study your language.  Help preserve and bring attention to the status of your language.  To do this we create a webpage containing your language information which will be posted at the end of the semester.

4. LDC Languages Mapped

5. Returning Speakers  Complete items on handout, including: - think of and record a story - orange lines of your “About my language” webpage -identify your language on the language endangerment scale

6. Folk Story There once was a hare who bragged about his speed. Tired of hearing him boast, a turtle named Slow and Steady challenged him to a race. The hare laughed and agreed. All the animals in the forest gathered to see the race. The race started and the hare dashed ahead. When he looked behind him he saw the turtle so far behind him that he decided to take a nap as there was plenty of time to rest. He slept and slept. Finally he was woken by the crowd’s screams. He dashed out and saw the turtle crossing the finish line. Slow and Steady had won the race.

7. Self Introduction My name is _____. I have __ brothers and sisters. My father was a _____ and my mother was a _____. They were from _____. I was born in _____. …

8. Personal Story Whatever you would like! Some ideas: First time in the US. Something funny that happened to you. Describe making a food dish from your culture. How you met your husband/wife. How you celebrate New Year’s, weddings, etc.

9. Tell a story from the picture book We can provide you with a picture book, like last semester, where you retell the story from the pictures.

10. New and Returning Speakers: Webpage  Network > Wheel > UhDoc > Sp06  New Speakers: - COPY the language folder and save it to the desktop. - Change the name of the folder to your language name - When you are finished, please save the folder back to Sp06, next to the original file.  Returning Speakers -COPY the text3.html and sound.html files to your language folder from last semester.

11. Returning Speakers  Please feel free to think of your story quietly while we continue our presentation for the new speakers.  Or feel free to listen in.

12. New Speakers  Complete “About my language” webpage  Use Ethnologue or your country’s website to find data about your language  Find where your language is on the language endangerment scale.  If you have time left over, please ask someone for a minimal pairs worksheet or complete it on the computer.

13. Share Your Language  Start your webpage for LDC using Nvu  Open up intro.html from the “Your Language” file on the desktop.  Fill out the questions.

14. You should be here:

15. Language information Look up your language online at: http://www.ethnologue.com/ This will help you to fill out the webpage.

16. Language Information Online 1) Click on Browse the Web Version 2) Click on Language Names

17. Searching Ethnologue 3) Click on the 1st letter of your language 4) Click on the name of your language

18.  Read Ethnologue’s information on your language. Does it seem correct? Facts about Your Language

19. Online Resources  Find out about Language Documentation through the webpages listed on the handout:  What is Language Documentation? (SOAS) http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/  UNESCO Redbook of Endangered Languages http://www.tooyoo.l.u- tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/index.htmlhttp://www.tooyoo.l.u- tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/index.html  Resources for Endangered Languages (MIT) http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/resources/index.ht ml http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/resources/index.ht ml

20. Language Endangerment  “Today, there are about 6,500 human languages and half of them are under threat of extinction within 50 to 100 years. This is a social, cultural and scientific disaster because languages express the unique knowledge, history and worldview of their communities, and each language is a specially evolved variation of the human capacity for communication.” (SOAS, 2005)  Fill out Fishman’s Scale of Language Endangerment with your graduate volunteer Notes about why your language is a certain number

21. Language Endangerment Scale  1 – Language is alive and flourishing |  8 – Language is almost extinct

22. Mahalo! Speakers: Think about recording a story. Graduate Volunteers: Research literature on your speaker’s language