LgPolicy-list

LgPolicy-list is the forum of the Consortium for Language Policy and Planning. It is run by Hal Schiffman (prof. emeritus at Univ. of Pennsylvania), and was set up in 2001 to disseminate "information about language policy issues, about the activities of [the CLPP] and other similarly-oriented programs and centers."

The list achives are maintained on linguistlist.org. My contributions since joining in 2007 include the following:

2007

• Re: Sri Lanka: public servants encouraged to learn two main national languages, 2007/03/21 09:31
• Re: Newt Gingrich campaigns for officialization of English, 2007/03/21 11:27
• Re: Australia: Victorian state government language policy, 2007/03/28 10:51
• Re: Rwanda makes English an official language, 2007/03/29 09:48
• "Official English" in the UK?, 2007/04/01 09:45
• Re: "Official English" in the UK?, 2007/04/01 15:49
• Re: Aland-blog on language policy, 2007/04/03 13:19
• Re: "Official English" in the UK?, 2007/04/03 15:28
• "Italian becomes official language ... of Italy", 2007/04/03 15:43
• FW: Andean languages are making a comeback, 2007/04/06 09:46
• "Headlines from the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere", 2007/04/16 09:32
• "New Curriculum Aims At Better Primary Seven Products" (Uganda), 2007/04/19 10:05
• "Pandor Visits Mpumalanga Schools to Promote Local Languages" (South Africa), 2007/04/19 10:16
• FW: E Pluribus Unum: The democratic case for bilingualism., 2007/04/19 13:09
• "Mother Tongue Project Distributes Thousands of Books" (Namibia), 2007/04/19 13:50
• "Linguistic Revival Will Foster Unity" (Zimbabwe), 2007/04/19 14:05
• FW: Indigenous Education, Culture, and Language (GLF), 2007/04/21 16:28
• Update of "Linguistically Homogeneous vs Heterogenous Polities"?, 2007/04/21 17:22
• Re: Language and Wealth, 2007/04/22 13:56
• Fwd: South Afr. Parliament motto in /Xam language, 2007/04/22 20:44
• "Why mother tongues are dying" (Kenya), 2007/04/24 09:43
• English-speaking" (RE: Language and Wealth ), 2007/04/24 20:03
• "Boomtown Bangalore" (mention of English & Kannada), 2007/04/25 17:21
• Re: US universities do not produce enough graduates fluent in 'critical languages', 2007/04/26 11:34
• Ferguson's schema for written & standardization categories, 2007/05/09 22:41
• Re: Ferguson's schema for written & standardization categories, 2007/05/12 11:24
• Linguists see few threats to rule of English, 2007/05/16 09:32
• "Swedish fights rearguard action against English behemoth", 2007/05/16 10:12
• "SA still holding its African tongue" (African languages at S. African univ.'s), 2007/05/16 10:49
• 2008 - International Year of Languages, 2007/05/28 19:40
• Re: U.S. House Votes to Help Colleges Expand Study-Abroad Efforts, 2007/06/06 11:35
• FW: A diminished view of civil rights, 2007/06/07 07:24
• FW: The new voice of immigration reform: First speak English, then maybe we'll let you in, 2007/06/17 22:42
• Re: What the heck is an "official" language?, 2007/06/24 12:48
• FW: What the heck is an "official" language?, 2007/06/24 12:58
• Wikipedia articles needing attention, 2007/07/07 00:30
• "Polyglot babies 'more tolerant'", 2007/07/18 21:28
• Re: linguistic follies, 2007/07/29 02:03
• Re: Timor Leste: A New Country's Tough Non-Elective: Portuguese 101, 2007/07/31 16:11
• "Russia's Babel", 2007/08/03 05:48
• Re: language shift, 2007/08/13 00:39
• 8th Internat'l Conf. on Lang & Devt, Tshwane/Pretoria, 2007/10/1-3, 2007/08/14 22:33
• Re: Ghana: Gov't Charged to Introduce Policy for Girl Child Educatio, 2007/08/23 08:26
• Académie des langues nationales (Academy of National Languages) (Senegal), 2007/09/04 13:16
• Xth Conf. of Ibero-American Min's of Culture, & Ibero-Amer. Inst. for Native Lang's, 2007/09/04 13:56
• MINEL as a possible acronym for non-LWCs, 2007/09/07 10:46
• Fwd: "Fresh impetus for literacy in Africa" (conf. in Bamako), 2007/09/11 12:36
• Re: KAZAKHSTAN: MOVING FORWARD WITH PLAN TO REPLACE CYRILLIC WITH LATIN ALPHABET, 2007/09/14 10:26
• Re: Nigeria: Stakeholders Fault Moves to Merge NFLV With Unilag, 2007/10/05 11:04
• Linguapax Award 2008, 2007/12/03, 11:42
• FW: Online Nepali dictionary launched, 2007/12/13 10:04
• Re: Linguapax Award 2008, 2007/12/13 11:05
• "UNECA Champions Local Language On Net", 2007/12/15 02:58
• New list: A12n-policy, 2007/12/18 23:25
• International Year of Languages 2008, 2007/12/28 11:16
• Re: U.N. proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages, 2007/12/31 13:35
• IYL 2008: Stop punishing kids for speaking mother tongue?, 2007/12/31 14:04

2008

• IYL '08: Moratorium on beating kids for speaking mother tongue?, 2008/01/02 11:16
• Manière de voir #97 "La bataille des langues", 2008/01/29 02:56
• Henri Rahaingoson on the Year of Languages (Madagascar), 2008/02/03 00:28
• Re: Problems managing membership data on the Consortium for Language Policy and Planning, 2008/02/08 22:13
• Re: 'Status' drives extinction of languages, 2008/02/14 16:13
• Re: International Mother Language Day, 21 February, 2008/02/16 12:43
• Re: East Africa: Mother tongue interference on the Internet, 2008/02/18 11:10
• Re: India: Literate, but cannot read, 2008/02/22 11:17
• "Globalization & the Role of African Languages for Devt.", 2008/02/22 12:42
• Re: "Globalization & the Role of African Languages for Devt.", 2008/02/24 01:23
• "Myths about languages in the Philippines", 2008/02/29 21:34
• Linguapax Prize 2008 to Neville Alexander of South Africa, 2008/03/01 11:56
• Re: Linguapax Prize 2008: Neville Alexander of South Africa, 2008/03/02 10:04
• Re: Urban Legend "if it's good enough for Jesus", 2008/03/04 01:19
• "English--the richest, most expressive language in the world", 2008/03/05 12:10
• Language on the radio (Re: "Any hope for local Ghanaian languages...?"), 2008/03/08 22:59
• "Morocco's Berbers Reclaim Their Language & Indigenous Culture", 2008/03/17 21:23
• "Legislator wants immigrant families to keep native languages" (MD, US), 2008/03/21 10:30
• What about the "Declaration of Linguistic Rights"?, 2008/04/01 08:07
• Economics of language in Africa?, 2008/04/06 23:24
• "Finland's Sami Fear Assimilation", 2008/04/10 07:26
• Economics of language and the "long tail" effect, 2008/04/11 00:11
• "Still a long way to go to meet adult literacy targets" (Mali), 2008/04/17 22:23
• Conf: "Global Understanding in Multilingual, Multimodal & Multimedia Contexts" (22-23/8/2008), 2008/04/19 10:17
• Re: Nigeria: Lagos to introduce Chinese language in schools, 2008/04/27 09:51:04 -0400
• Re: Opening of National Museum of Language, Saturday 3 May, 2008-05-01 23:09
• Re: On Brazil´s MUSEU DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA, 2008-05-02 08:57
• Re: Link to UN's PFII Release: Subtractive Lg Education Is a Crime Against Humanity, 2008-05-22 11:09
• FW: Congrès mondial sur la traduction spécialisée / World Congress on Specialized Translation, 2008-05-27 09:56
• FW: CAL News June 2008, 2008-06-19 21:43
• Re: Local language recognition angers French academy, 2008-06-20 13:55
• Re: Namibia: Bilingual Or Multilingual Education, 2008-06-22 01:34
• 18th International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, 21-26/7/2008, 2008-06-26 22:50
• Re: Switching Languages May = Switching Personalities, 2008-06-29 19:41
• Re: Latinos lagging far behind in Internet use, report says, 2008-06-30 00:13
• Re: Addressing Language Barriers, 2008-07-03 11:53
• Re: Addressing Language Barriers, 2008-07-03 12:20
• Re: No Bilingual Commencements in New Orleans Please, 2008-07-08 13:42
• Handbook of Language and Communication: Hellinger, Pauwels (Eds) 2007, 2008-07-08 15:05
• "Can we localize entire libraries?", 2008-07-10 14:38
• "But Where Does That Leave French?" (language teaching in US), 2008-07-12 19:07
• Foreign language cuts at OSU, 2008-07-12 19:32
• Re: Insistence on 'English only' dulls competitive edge, 2008-07-13 10:58
• Re: Language Policies impact on business, 2008-07-20 06:52
• Re: [ILAT] Court rules against Yup’'ik as an historically written language ..., 2008-07-24 13:00
• Mass digitization & oral tradition, 2008-07-26 20:14
• "Don wants Hausa as North's official language" (Nigeria), 2008-07-27 19:44
• "Just published: Why Languages Matter", 2008-08-31 15:18
• Expert surveys in language policy?, 2008-09-10 12:27
• "Preserving Louisiana French as Living Language", 2008-10-11 00:01
• Re: Word Domination, 2008-10-18 06:48
• National Museum of Language Flag Contest (reminder), 2008-10-21 11:28
• Re: Botswana: Language: genuine or token?, 2008-10-23 21:59
• FW: Petition for KOTUS (Res. Inst. for Lang's of Finland), 2008-11-18 12:06
• Re: Mali: Women Speaking French is the Key, 2008-11-20 17:57

2009

• After Internat'l Year of Languages: A Decade?, 2009-01-01 09:15
• Deutscher Bildungsserver: International Year of Multilingualism, 2009-01-02 22:37
• Reaction to foreign lang. conversation (RE: Michigan: Dearborn schools leader: Foreign language use limited), 2009-01-17 15:01
• Re: Cheeseburgery hamburgers and the problem of computerised translations, 2009-01-31 09:47
• FW: [AfricanLanguages] Lagos Assembly conducts session in Yoruba, 2009-02-08 11:44
• Linguapax Prize 2009 to Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira, 2009-02-21 07:42
• Re: Linguapax Prize 2009 to Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira, 2009-02-21 10:11
• Language policy briefs for govt offiicials, 2009-02-23 12:13
• Re: Language policy briefs for govt offiicials, 2009-02-23 12:42
• Re: Language policy briefs for govt offiicials, 2009-02-28 08:11
• Re: Language policy briefs for govt offiicials, 2009-02-28 08:14
• Language/localization in Tanzania's ICT policy, 2009-04-02 21:16
• Mobile phones & language (RE: ETS and Nokia to Create New Ways of Learning English), 2009-04-12 09:35
• Re: India: You can now learn French, German in Tamil, 2009-04-12 11:34
• Mother tongue & cultural system: key references, 2009-06-27 09:10
• Saving indigenous languages in Australia, 2009-08-16 07:58
• Language & ICT: Limerick & Barcelona (conferences), 2009-09-04 14:33
• FW: Study: native language V second language (math; Irish), 2009-09-04 14:33
• FW: Report on UNESCO debate on indigenous & endangered languages, 2009-10-24 17:22

2010

• Re: French is out of fashion in Rwanda: English replaced French as the official language of instruction in schools in 2008, 2010-04-23 21:00
• FW: Africa: Multilingual Education Pays Off, 2010-07-21 01:14

2011

• FW: [ILAT] UNESCO highlights IT's role in protecting mother languages (fwd link), 2011-02-21 13:19
• International Mother Tongue Day: 18 languages spoken in K-P, FATA and G-B at risk (fwd link), 2011-02-21 13:20
• Re: dialect vs vernacular discussion , a reflection !, 2011-04-27 18:52
• Re: NIGERIA: UN SIGNS COOPERATION PACT TO BOOST ADULT AND YOUTH LITERACY, 2011-05-06 21:31
• Fw: Which scripts written vertically? [From Unicode list], 2011-05-11 12:10
• Books Gaddafi banned sell well in rebel-held Libya, 2011-05-13 11:52
• Fw: [ILAT] Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says (fwd link), 2011-05-20 21:36
• Fw: Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Repository, Version 2.0, 2011-05-25 21:33
• Fw: [Mt-list] EAMT Best Thesis Award 2011, 2011-06-02 21:33
• Fw: [CLA News Service] CLA'11 Conference -- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS, 2011-06-03 17:31
• Re: South Sudan Constitution language policy, 2011-06-06 12:50
• Re: Webster's lays down the law, 2011-06-16 22:21
• Fw: [ILAT] Call for Papers for a Special Theme Issue of the Journal of American Indian (fwd), 2011-07-11 21:42
• Re: South African Language Policy to Blame for Low Literacy, Maths Grades, 2011-07-23 04:30
• Fw: UNESCO UNVEILS WINNERS OF ANNUAL LITERACY AWARDS, 2011-07-28 21:38
• Fw: Indigenous Language Institute: Native Language News, 2011-08-05 22:11
• Fw: Colombia lifts ban on native languages (link), 2011-08-09 21:24
• Re: Amid a Berber Reawakening in Libya, Fears of Revenge, 2011-08-11 11:15
• Fw: Critique of Confucius Institutes, 2011-08-21 10:49
• Fw: LRC XVI Conference - Next Week, 2011-09-12 11:26
• Fw: Finland engages in dialogue on the rights of indigenous people (fwd quote link), 2011-09-23 21:55
• Speech Accent Archive, 2011-09-26 03:00
• Fw: What machines still can't translate, 2011-09-29 11:59
• Fw: [Mt-list] Reminder: EAMT Best Thesis Award 2011, 2011-10-13 22:17
• Re: Casa Grande Arizona: How You Say It Isn’t Clear, Even if You’re From Here, 2011-10-15 14:35
• Fw: Don makes case for indigenous languages (Nigeria), 2011-10-26 21:36
• Fw: Tech-preneurs link rural folk to debate using local languages (Kenya), 2011-10-26 21:57

2012

• Fw: MultiLingual¹s Resource Directory is now available on our website, 2012-02-01 23:04
• Re: South Sudan: Those With Degrees in Arabic Language Should Take English Course, It Is Easy, 2012-02-22 12:58
• NET.LANG: towards the multilingual cyberspace (new edited vol.), 2012-03-07 13:10
• Fw: [Mt-list] XRCE Internship: Optimization and Sampling Techniques for Statistical Machine Translation, 2012-03-15 11:27
• 63rd anniversary of N'Ko alphabet marked in New York & Kankan, 2012-04-14 12:21
• Fw: Changes to CLDR Survey Tool, 2012-04-14 13:46

2013

• Cross-border & "national" languages, Ethnologue, and Africa, Thu Dec 5 16:25:29 UTC 2013

2014

• Linguapax Award nominations (Jan. 15!), Fri Jan 10 18:08:24 UTC 2014
• "Neighbor" & "local" languages; translations vs ebola, Fri Sep 5 15:09:44 UTC 2014
• Ebola messages in several African languages (text); A look at an atrocity in Guinea, Sat Sep 20 00:58:36 UTC 2014
• Ebola messages in western Dan and N'Ko (Manding); technical issues with N'Ko, Fri Sep 26 21:10:49 UTC 2014
• English in rural Africa?; Why repost info?; Ebola info in Bambara, Fri Oct 17 20:32:13 UTC 2014
• Letter "h" in Fula; Language & ebola planning; Standard Mende orthography,Fri Oct 17 20:41:48 UTC 2014
• "National" & "Principal" lang's in Ethnologue; Ebola info not in Afr. lang's; Media survey, Fri Oct 17 20:51:35 UTC 2014
• "Long tail" & economics of language; Languages & ebola messaging in Nigeria, Sun Oct 26 12:11:41 UTC 2014
• Wikipedia & ebola; Language names & material re-use across dialects; Translating Hope initiative, Fri Nov 7 18:59:29 UTC 2014
• Krio Wikipedia; Uganda ebola posters; Bambara spelling in ebola info, Wed Nov 26 14:17:16 UTC 2014
• Bambara orthography; African lang's out of African schools; Languages & ebola in Senegal, Thu Dec 11 16:46:42 UTC 2014
• Alternative Bambara translations; Ebola materials in Temne; Mentioning Liberian languages or not, Fri Dec 26 22:10:43 UTC 2014

2015

• Language policies of world militaries?, Wed Feb 18 17:04:39 UTC 2015
• Ebola materials in Malinké ; US health info in African languages, Wed May 6 12:14:24 UTC 2015
• Ebola in Vai ; Same-language subtitling ; 2 most spoken lang's in Africa, Wed May 6 12:27:51 UTC 2015
• Linguistics for devt. ; More on maps, languages & speakers in Africa, Mon May 11 16:03:53 UTC 2015
• Re: South Africa: Health department wants to go trilingual, Sat May 30 21:43:28 UTC 2015
• Fwd: Auto-discard notification (subject earlier in the thread was "Re: South Africa: Health department wants to go trilingual"), Thu Jun 11 19:28:54 UTC 2015
• Fw: 11th Language and Development Conference, Tue Jul 7 10:34:31 UTC 2015
• Lang & Devt Conf ; Unicode & African langs ; Wiktionary & learning, Sat Jul 11 18:19:46 UTC 2015
• Census Bureau & African langs ; lang contraction ; book donations to Africa, Thu Jul 16 18:24:18 UTC 2015
• More on book donations ; Literacy & langs in Senegal ; UNESCO literacy prizes, Mon Jul 27 13:03:04 UTC 2015
• Diacritics & modified letters in African languages ; Casablanca Statement in 6 languages, Mon Sep 28 19:11:29 UTC 2015
• Old computer fonts ; IMLD 2015 (late) ; RFI's new Manding service, Thu Oct 22 02:55:31 UTC 2015
• Stories from mEducation ; "community language" & "national language" in Africa, Mon Nov 16 03:35:05 UTC 2015
• CFP-Early writing ; Back to ebola education materials in African languages, Fri Nov 20 21:03:29 UTC 2015
• Dialect "barriers" ; Jula variations ; corrections s.o. else didn't make, Fri Dec 4 15:16:49 UTC 2015
• Language(s) and international development, Mon Dec 21 21:53:16 UTC 2015
• RTL text & LTR graphics ; Census Bureau & Afr langs, II ; Afr lang phones, Thu Dec 24 14:16:31 UTC 2015

2016

• iPhone 6S lang's ; Unicode & comp sci ; PanAfriL10n wiki, Sat Jan 9 13:21:45 UTC 2016
• Sapir-Whorf in our millet? Vocabulary & food diversity, Mon Jan 18 15:01:30 UTC 2016
• Language & ICT in Africa ; Wikipedia in African langs ; IMLD 2016 & education in Afr., Tue Feb 23 11:52:42 UTC 2016
• OLDT & online sources for terminology about languages, Tue Mar 1 17:07:35 UTC 2016
• RFI: Politique linguistique au Maroc, Sat Mar 12 18:02:36 UTC 2016
• Bamako 1966 meeting ; iPhone languages (again); Languages of African literary prizes, Sun Mar 20 12:29:33 UTC 2016
• Symposium on Language and the Sustainable Development Goals. April 21-22, Wed Apr 13 17:46:46 UTC 2016
• TALAf 2016 (deadline extended to May 8) - NLP in Africa, Mon Apr 25 16:24:16 UTC 2016
• Afr Lang's in the Disciplines; Chinese-Hausa materials; AfLaT, TALAf & language tech, Tue Apr 26 05:20:32 UTC 2016
• More on Chinese & Hausa; Analysis of ebola messaging; Looking at multiplicity of languages, Thu Jun 2 00:06:43 EDT 2016
• Term for sth spoken in one language, written in another, Sun Jun 5 13:09:36 EDT Mon Jun 20 23:13:02 EDT 2016
• Three CFPs: LESEWA, FEL XX, and ICRIML, Tue Jun 28 11:45:40 EDT 2016
• TED talks; macrolanguages; Facebook, ISOC & A12n, Sat Sep 3 10:39:31 EDT 2016
• VOA Hausa; Literacy Day; comp sci; "language barrier", Sun Oct 2 14:29:34 EDT 2016

2017

• Ghanaian language input ; Senufo in writing ; language in Mali, Fri Jan 13 09:12:06 EST 2017
• Mabati-Cornell ; ACALAN ; African language content strategy, Fri Jan 13 20:36:05 EST 2017
• Epilanguage?, Sat Jan 14 07:25:57 EST 2017
• 3+2 upcoming conferences (4 CFPs) ; Health info in African languages from Australia & US, Wed Feb 15 00:33:50 EST 2017
• Nice overview of Unicode, Mon Mar 13 11:57:06 EDT 2017
• IMLD & Linguapax; Wikipedia on African langs; Kaïdara index, Sun Apr 9 07:24:08 EDT 2017
• African langs in China; Epilanguages & sesquilingualism; Another map of 2nd most spoken langs, Sun Apr 16 00:53:32 EDT 2017
• RE: South Africa: IsiXhosa language lecturer conferred ‘milestone’ PhD, Sat Apr 29 12:31:04 EDT 2017
• Dissertations in African lang's; vocabulaire de la corruption; Niamey 2018?, Mon May 22 15:24:32 EDT 2017
• CFP: Language & Development Conf., Dakar, Mon May 22 15:29:56 EDT 2017
• RE: Pakistan: ‘More than one national language will not threaten security’, Thu Sep 7 09:09:33 EDT 2017
• African Border Day & lang's ; Norway-Nigeria digitization ; Polio in Hausa, Fri Oct 20 23:56:58 EDT 2017
• A Malian blogger dies ; Terms in cross-language QDA ; Girls' ed & L1 ed, Sat Oct 21 00:10:10 EDT 2017

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