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

2. Introducing My Language  Place your language on the LDC map  Look online - facts about your language  Discuss language endangerment scale  Share what you have learned on your web page

3. LDC Languages Mapped

4. My Language Facts  Exactly where is it spoken?  How many people speak it?  What are other names for it? Look up your language online at http://www.ethnologue.com/

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

6. Searching Ethnologue 3) Click on first letter of your language 4) Click on the name of your language

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

8. Share about Your Language  Start your webpage for LDC using Nvu  Network > Wheel > UhDoc > Templates  Save File as introelena.html (your name) on the Wheel Server  Type in an introduction to yourself and you language, using the Ethnologue

9. Online Resources  Find out about Language Documentation  What is Language Documentation? (SOAS) http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/what isit/ http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/what isit/

10. How We Document From SOAS website (http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/)http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/  to create a range of high quality materials to support description of a variety of language phenomena  to enable the recovery of knowledge of the language even if all other sources are lost  to generate resources in support of language maintenance and/or learning  Projects will typically create materials in several types of media:  video  audio  images  written (e.g. transcription, description/analysis)  metadata (structured data about materials, typically in written form)

11. 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

12. Sharing about Endangerment  Type information about language endangerment into your LDC webpage  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/i ndex.html http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/resources/i ndex.html

13. Mahalo! Speakers: Think about recording the bird story-what happens? Graduate Volunteers: Research literature on your speaker’s language