Global Voices · Citizen media stories about Language from July 2009

Language · July, 2009
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Stories about Language from July, 2009

31 July 2009

Sri Lanka: English Language Standards

Written by Rezwan · Quick Reads · South Asia

29 July 2009

Jamaica: On Writing

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

28 July 2009

What is Team Building in the Filipino Language?

Written by Karlo Mongaya · Quick Reads · East Asia

27 July 2009

The Balkans: Language Issue

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

24 July 2009

China: Chinese Internet Memes For 2009

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

22 July 2009

Turkey: The Turkish of Dr. Oz

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

China: Memorable Quotations from Qin Gang

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

21 July 2009

Syria: Focus on Ability

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

20 July 2009

Pakistan: Urdu Transliteration Tool

Written by Rezwan · Quick Reads · South Asia

18 July 2009

Africa: Challenges for African language study in America

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

17 July 2009

India: No shortcuts please, this is business!

Written by Aparna Ray · Quick Reads · South Asia

16 July 2009

India: How History helped shape ‘Indian English’

Written by Aparna Ray · Quick Reads · South Asia

15 July 2009

Arab World: Trouble for Gay Travels in the Muslim World

Written by Katharine Ganly · Middle East & North Africa

The first gay book to have been ever translated into Arabic after being originally printed in English has run into problems straight off the press. Katharine Ganly reports on blogger...

14 July 2009

India:Vandalism of Tamil-Brahmi sites

Written by Aparna Ray · Quick Reads · South Asia

9 July 2009

Guyana: Writing's Purpose

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Russia-Ukraine: State, nation and language

Written by Vilhelm Konnander · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

7 July 2009

Jamaica: Who's “Bad”?

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Morocco: Learning Arabic

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

5 July 2009

Azerbaijan: Alphabet(s)

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Quick Reads · Central Asia & Caucasus

Japan: Eight endangered languages in the Japanese archipelago

Written by Scilla Alecci · East Asia

In February UNESCO presented the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, giving an accurate and worrying description of the languages considered endangered (about 2,500). Among these eight belong to...