The Yinka Déné Language Institute
646 Stoney Creek Road
Vanderhoof BC V0J 3A1 Canada
250-561-5848, local 460 (telephone)
250-561-5874 (FAX)
The Yinka Déné Language Institute is devoted to the preservation and promotion of Yinka Dene language and culture. Our activities include:
Encouraging the use of our languages.
Publishing material in our languages.
Producing documentation for our languages
Training researchers, language teachers, and other language specialists.
Developing curricula.
Producing teaching materials for our languages and culture.
Archiving material on our languages, culture, and history.
Announcements
ALDI 2008
The 29th annual American Indian Language Development Institute will be held at the
University of Arizona Wednesday June 4 - Wednesday July 2 2008. Further information is available at
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi.
Introductory Linguistics for Language Revitalization
The University of Victoria is offering Introductory Linguistics
for Language Revitalization in Victoria on Thursday evenings
January through April. For further information, see the flyer
or visit the website
http://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/calr.
UBC Language Courses
The University of British Columbia's First Nations Languages Program is offering
courses in three languages this year: Musqueam, Plains Cree, and for the first time,
Dakelh. For further information, visit the FNLG
web site or download
the poster.
Louie Family CDs
The CD of the Louie Family Singers singing traditional Carrier songs
is available again.
Northwest Journal of Linguistics
A new journal devoted to the native languages of northwestern North America has
come into existence. It is published only in electronic form:
http://www.sfu.ca/nwjl/.
For information about other First Nations languages of British Columbia, about
the First Nations languages of British Columbia in general, and about endangered
languages, language maintenance, and related topics,
go to the First Nations Languages of British Columbia web site.
Nous sommes désolés de ne pas avoir tout traduit en franç;ais. Néanmoins,
certains renseignments sont disponibles en français. Cet index en
français.
Veuillez nous communiquer en français si vous voulez.
Revised 2008-03-10
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