Events

‘The Native Voice’ is a public installation at Purchase College consisting of outdoor lawn signs presenting words in the Wappinger Algonqiuan language and translations in English. There are also primary display signs introducing IYIL19 and Native American Heritage Month. The goal of this project is to introduce the campus community to the native language of Purchase and to raise awareness of native heritage and endangered languages worldwide.

Souring Bunjil will allow vulnerable Aboriginal children and young people in growing cultural identity and pride through learning their Songlines, Language and Connection to Country. The forums wil foster stronger community connections to Language and complement capacity building, working with the VACL regional Language Reclamation Centres

Translation Commons is setting out the vision for a global workflow to digitize indigenous languages and enable them to partake to today's digital opportunities.

With a view to provide access to information and knowledge to all language users and facilitate their inclusion and participation in building sustainable knowledge societies, UNESCO, in close cooperation with the Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra (Russian Federation), the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and its Special Interest Group on Under-resourced languages (SIGUL), and in partnership with UNESCO Intergovernmental Information for All Programme (IFAP) and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, as well as with support of other public organizations and sponsors, is organizing this conference with the title “Language Technologies for All: Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide” at its Headquarters in Paris, France from 4 to 6 December 2019.

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.