Major headings: Languages & Land claims; Toponymy & Topography; Planning for the future; Language, identity & the environment; Language & Identity: Home & Away; Language revitalisation: Maintenance; Documenting ENdangered LanguagesMaps, graphs, word listsland claims, east kimberley, ecotourism, nsw, borroloola, gurr-goni, maningrida

Maps, tables, word listsextreme endangerment, religion and language, literacy and revitalisation, language ecology, language and globalisation, colonisation

Setting the Scene; Finding a Policy; Looking at the Learners; Working with Non-Written Languages; Ways and Means; Role of Standard Dialects; Impacts & Future ProspectsTableslanguage endangerment, education, literacy, libraries

Outward Migration & Endangered Languages; Inward Migration & Endangered Languages; First Peoples; Policy, Power & Endangered Languages; States & Minorities; Migrations in History & Prehistorymaps, b&w photographs, tablesendangered languages, language revival, migration, linguistic diversity

Section 1: Grass-roots Efforts and Top-down Institutions Keynote Address: Leanne Hinton The Death and Rebirth of Native American Languages Patrick Marlow Bilingual Education, Legislative Intent, and Language Maintenance in Alaska Galina Dyrkheeva New Language Policy and Small Languages in Russia: the Buryat Example Zelealem Leyew The Fate of Endangered Languages in Ethiopia Gregory Hankoni Kamwendo Language Planning from Below: Chitumbuka as a Marginalised Language in Malawi John Hobson Learning to Speak Again: Towards the Provision of Appropriate Training for the Revitalization of Australian Languages in New South Wales Shelley Tulloch Grassroots Desires for Language Planning in Nunavut Amandina C�rdenas Demay Hacia la definici�n de una pol�tica del lenguaje & Alejandra Arellano Mart�nez expl�cita en M�xico Elena Benedicto, G. McLean, Linguistic Rights in the Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast: Grupo de Ling�istas Ind�genas Mayangna Actions on the Ground within the Legislative Framework of the Estatuto de Autonom�a Bartomeu Meli� Las lenguas ind�genas en el Paraguay. Una visi�n desde el Censo 2002 Monica Ward Building from the Bottom-up: Linguistic Rights for Extremely Endangered Languages Marta Moskal Language Policy and Protection of Endangered Languages in Poland Sue Wright What is a language? Some difficulties inherent in language rights Joan Ramon Sol� Obstacles in the Way of the Recovery of Catalan Section 2: The Global vs. the Local in Linguistic Rights Keynote Address: Patxi Goenaga Fronteras que dividen y fronteras que separan. Una mirada a Europa desde el Euskara Yun-Hsuan Kuo Languages, Identity, and Linguistic Rights in Taiwan Estibaliz Amorrortu, Andoni Barre�a, What Do Linguistic Communities Think about the Esti Izagirre, Itziar Idiazabal, Bel�n Uranga Official Recognition of their Languages? Alok Kumar Das Linguistic Practices and Not Just Linguistic Rights: Endangered Languages in New Europe Section 3: Languages crossing the Borders Keynote Address: Tjeerd de Graaf The Status of Endangered Languages in the Border Areas of Japan and Russia Mariana Bara Arm�n endangered language Ver�nica Grondona Language Policy, Linguistic Rights and Language Maintenance in Argentina Grup d?Estudi de Lleng�es Amena�ades Linguistic diversity in Catalonia: towards a model of linguistic revitalization Nataliya Belitser Endangered Languages in Crimea/Ukraine: The Cases of Crimean Tatar, Karait, and Krymchak Ivelina Kazakova & Maria Miteva The Future of Bulgarian: The Road to Extinction or Paradise Regained Luke O?Callaghan War of Words: Language Policy in Post Independence Kazakhstan Eden Naby From Lingua Franca to Endangered Language: The Legal Aspects of the Preservation of Aramaic in Iraq Poster presentations Akim Elnazarov Endangered languages and Education. A Case of Badakhshan Province of Tajikistan Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen & Oddvar Hjulstad Linguistic Rights Paving the Way Towards Language Endangerment? The Case of Norwegian Sign Language Eva Savelsberg Kurdish (Kurmanc�) as Minority Language in the Federal Republic of Germany Jos� Antonio Flores Farf�n Cultural and Linguistic Revitalization, Maintenance and Development in Mexico Mary Jane Norris Assessing the Status, Use and Accessibility of Canada?s Aboriginal Languages within Communities and Cities: Some Proposed Indicators Michael Prosser van der Riet Promotion of Minority Language Scripts in Southwest China. A Relative Success or Complete Failure? Mikael Grut The Endangered Celtic Languages: A Wake-up Call Nariyo Kono Developing Partnerships Between Universities and Language Communities: Top-down and Bottom-up Integration Richard J. Hawkins Probit Modeling Language Attrition Rudy Osiel Camposeco El idioma maya Popti? y la Declaraci�n Universal de los Derechos Ling��sticos Victorio N. Sugbo The literary Response: Claiming Rights in Three Philippin Languages Ya-ling Chang Language Policies in an Aboriginal Primary School in Taiwanmaps, tables, graphsnsw, endangered languages, linguistic rights

Main headings: Opening the book; Literacy from within; Choosing an orthography; Literacy & Dialect diversity; Promoting literacy; Cautionary notesmaps, b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, tablesendangered languages, language revival, orthography, literacy

Main headings: Strategies and resources; Orthographies; Proverbs, metaphor and poetics; Literatures and education; Case studies; Oral literatures: Collection and Diffusion; Mayan literatureMaps, tables, word listsendangered languages, language revival, kimberly, education

Learning the details, Different approaches in the classroom, School contexts, Innovative methods, Multilingualism and diaspora, Policy overviewmaps, b&w photographs, colour photographs, tables, graphsmultilingualism, education, bilingualism, language endangerment, language transmission

Keynotes, Attitudinal issues, Govenrment-supportedstrategies and community initiated projects, Teaching-resource creation for language revitalization, Language use and standards, The role of the education system in language shift and its reversal, Langauge standardisation, Intergenerational transmissionTablesendangered languages, language revival, language policy

Linguistic and Sociolinguistic properties; sociolinguistics and endangered languages; Rights, identities and new technologies; New media cultures and endangered languages; Rebuilding peoples in Ecuador and revitalizing their languages Documentation - successful experience; Language rights of endangered languagesMaps, graphslanguage endangerment, worrorra, language technologies, documentation

maps, b&w photographs, colour photographs, illustrations, graphsendangered languages, language revival, education, language research

Session 1: Technology and Cultural knowledge: Documentation, transmission and resource Session 2: Television and Endangered Languages Session 3: Technology: Archiving, Lexicography, Translation, Databases Session 4: Technology: Teaching and Learning endangered languages Session 5: Social media, press and endangered languages Session 6: Multiple perspectives on language endangerment in the 21st centuryMaps, b&w photographs, tablesendangered languages, language revival, globalisation, technology, barngarla, port lincoln

Session 1: Collaborations with language and cultural organizations, and governments Session 2: Collaborations with universities, researchers, institutes and schools Session 3: Strategies/issues across language, culture, geography, place and generations I: standardization and dialects Session 4: Strategies issues across language, culture, geography, place and generations II: Minority languages, regions and rural/urban areas Session 6: Language and culture connections: Health, well-being, and educational outcomes Session 7: Strategies/issues across language, culture, geography, place and generations III: Generations and families Session 8: Language assessment, documentation and diversity: Indicators of vitality, endangerment and the implications of data collection Session 5: Poster sessions I: Hard copy: Community connections, collaborative approaches, cross-disciplinary research Session 5: Poster session II: Electronic: Collaborative approaches with information and computer technologiesmaps, b&w photographs, colour photographs, illustrations, graphscollaboration, community involvement, cross disciplinary research

A satirical film about Aboriginal people's discovery of Australia and its white inhabitants. A critical and popular success, this 'reverse angle' probe into racial inequality in Australia has developed a cult following. It approaches its subject with humour but is no less effective for that - perhaps more so. Cast includes: Michelle Torres, Bob Maza, Cecily Polson, Tony Barry. Winner of the UN Media Peace Prize 1987.DVDindigenous australians, australian history, humour, satire, australian television

The story of Dyeerrm is adapted from the original tale of Tiddalik, a well-known Dreamtime story told throughout Australia by many Indigenous peoples. Iramoo Primary School has worked with the Wathaurong People of the Geelong and Werribee districts to produce a piece of work which reflects the lives of these people, the food they ate, the plants they lived amongst and the stories that make up their culture. "The school has endeavoured to ensure all information in the retelling of this version is accurate. We apologise for any inconsistencies".DVDwathaurong, geelong, werribee, dyeerrm, tiddalik, dreamtime, storytelling, animation

Interactive multi-ending Indigenous drama series set in Hidden Valley; inspired by requests from elders and youth of the Arrernte community in Mbarnte Alice Springs.DVDarrernte, central desert, mbarntwe, alice springs, drama

Travelling linguists David and Greg document languages on the verge of extinction.DVDlanguage revival, linguistics

In this six-part series, Ernie Dingo explores the revival, maintenance and creation of languages which are in a constant state of change. He reveals the complex balance between language and relationship to country, and discovers how this balance has been affected since European colonisation. Ernie asks an important question of the Elders he meets - What is the future of the Aboriginal language spoken in their community?DVDgunditjmara, yirrkala, yolngu, arnhem land, ngarrindjeri, coorong, vicki couzens, arrernte, alice springs, yindjibarndi, roebourne, bill harney, wardaman, language revival

Information on why we vote, how to register to vote and what to do with the ballot papers. It also explains the special arrangements for absent, mobile an dearly voting. Includes tracks in 5 languages as well as English.pitjantjatjara, western kriol, walmajarri, torres strait creole, jaru

The language program was developed by teachers at Brewarrina, and is designed to appeal strongly to the imaginations of their students. The students are encouraged to work in groups and individually to unearth their local history and cultural backgrounds, by studying family trees and gathering oral histories, by making excursions to significant sites, and by re-discovering Aboriginal language and cultural practices.DVDbrewarrina central school, aboriginal language program, multiculturalism, genealogy, local history, research

This film is designed for use by those involved in teaching Aboriginal Languages in schools. It shows how schools in Gumbaynggirr country (in NSW) work with the community to develop their language programs. It shows the cooperation between teachers, linguists and community tutors in preparation and delivery of Aboriginal Language programs in Gumbaynggirr country, NSWDVDgumbaynggirr

Documents 6-week program in 2007 of multimedia trainers working with a school in Aurukun.DVDaurukun, queensland, indigenous education, multimedia