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(Laugher)

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D: Hey, Christine!
Ch: Cool, cool, yeah.

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So first off, I'm proud of us
for getting YouTube working.

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(Laugher) We've really come far this year.

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Well, yeah.

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So thank you all for joining us today.

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We're just going to quickly go over

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the language Revitalization
accelerator applications.

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So the Language Revitalization Accelerator
is a now annual cohort program

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that Wikitongues puts together.

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Each grant recipient receives $ 2000 U.S.

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They also have access
to the Wikitongues network.

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So linguists and other people
on the advisory council

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and then webinars and certain
networking events throughout the year.

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This year we'll be funding
around 20 or up to 20 projects.

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So we want to take some time to go over
what we look for in grant applications,

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how we've chosen successful
grant applications in the past

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with some examples for you,

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and then we'll take some time at the end
to answer any questions that you have.

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Cool! Do you want to kick us off, Daniel,
and talk about what we look at,

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from like a general top-level perspective
and we go through all the applications?

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D: Absolutely.

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So.

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The goal of the language
revitalization accelerator

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is to make it easier for people to launch

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their own language
revitalization projects,

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their own mother tongue projects
in their communities.

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And the challenge with that
is we're basically standardizing something

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that cannot be too standardized
and needs to still be locally relevant

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because every community
has different needs

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and language revitalization takes
a lot of different forms.

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And so while we're kind of
in the early stages of this program,

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one of the things that we're trying to do
is to make sure that each cohort has

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a certain geographical diversity,

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as well as an urban-rural diversity
and a diversity of ages,

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so that we're sure that our approach
to language revitalization

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can apply to as many different
kinds of people as possible

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in as many different contexts as possible.

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We also learn a lot
from the people who we work with.

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And so

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the more different kinds of
language revitalization projects

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we have in the accelerator,

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the better we can
support people the following year.

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So even though we don't have
an exact reserved number of slots

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for each continental region,

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we are trying to make sure that every year
we UNDIST with people from across Africa,

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across Europe, Asia,
the Pacific, the Americas,

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We want to make sure that we have
a geographically diverse cohort.

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More specifically, when we're looking
at a successful application,

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we're interested in projects

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that are framed in a long-term context.

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One of the first questions is what do you
want for your language in ten years?

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And the reason we ask that question
because language revitalization

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is generational and you are not going
to revitalize your language in one year.

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What you can do, though,
is have a vision for the next ten years,

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which is a slice of a generation.

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And then that can be broken down
into more bite-sized goals for one year

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because the accelerator lasts one year.

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This is why the next question is
what do you want to do for your language

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between April 2023 and April 2024?

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And so projects that aren't
trying to do a million things

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but instead, focus on one thing
tend to be more successful.

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And

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we can more confidently help someone
who wants to do one thing.

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If you're trying to build a dictionary
in your language, we can make sure

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to pair you with a linguist
who works on lexical elicitation.

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However, I don't think
that in the course of a year

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we can help you develop
an orthography for your language,

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build a dictionary of your language,

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develop a grammar sketch
for your language.

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You can't do everything.

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The other thing
that we're that we look for

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are applications that think
not just about language documentation,

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but language revitalization more broadly.

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Documenting your language
is a part of revitalizing your language.

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But documentation alone
is not language revitalization.

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Language revitalization
is a community process.

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And so if your goals include
engaging your community in a certain way,

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so perhaps if you are working
on documentation

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like you're recording
oral histories in your language.

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If you are enlisting a group of five
young people in your community

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to work with elders
to record the oral histories,

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what you're doing is effectively

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kind of putting young people
in immersion scenarios

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where they learn from elders,
where they learn about their language,

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and that is more revitalization oriented

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than you alone going around
with a camera and recording people.

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So that is to say that

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and it's also important to point out

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that language revitalization
might not include language documentation.

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Maybe your language
is already really well documented

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and you are going straight
to community work.

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You're setting up a school for children.

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You're setting up
an immersion program for adults.

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You're creating original content
in your language.

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But whatever you're doing is,

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it's important to think about how
you are going to engage your community

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and how many people
in your community you hope to engage,

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because that is the kind of community
aspect of language revitalization

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that's really, really important.

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So from the top,
we are looking for projects

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that have a kind of a very strong
and achievable focus for one year,

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but that are thought about

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in the context of the long-term
nature of language revitalization.

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And we're looking for projects

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that very explicitly engage
your wider community.

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Ch: Yeah, those are great points.

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And one other I would add
that we get asked a lot is:

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"Do I need to be a speaker
of this language?"

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So we do prioritize mother tongue
and ancestral heritage language learners.

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So if the language is your mother tongue,
we will prioritize your application.

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Or if the language is one
of your ancestral or heritage languages

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that you do not have
the opportunity to learn.

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Perhaps your language was forced abuse

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or it's not taught in the school
system in your area

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or various other reasons.

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We will prioritize those applications.

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But that's not to say that you can't apply
even if those situations do not fit you.

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We've had a lot of people
apply as researchers.

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One person in our cohort this year is not
an ancestral language later himself,

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but works closely with the community
and has partnered with the community

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that he's working with.

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If you are not a speaker of that language
and it's not your heritage language,

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then we recommend partnering
with someone within the community

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and applying through a joint application

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so that you can build out
that community approach

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that Daniel was mentioning before.

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D: Right. Because a language
revitalization project

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has to be led by the community
whose language it is.

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As an outsider, you might be able to help,

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but if you haven't already partnered
with that community

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and demonstrated that they want your help,

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then you can confidently say you're going
to be able to revitalize their language.

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So… Em…

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People who aren't from the original
communities are welcome to apply

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as long as they have already
partnered with that community

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and are working closely
with a member of that community.

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Ch: Yeah, and that can be
for academics, researchers

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and also people interested in language 
learning and things of that nature.

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So to give some examples, we chose
examples from last-years cohort,

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from the ongoing cohort right now,
from the 2022 to 2023 cycle.

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And we're going to go through
the questions, the larger

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narrative type questions
on the application

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and show you examples
of successful applications last year.

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I will share my screen quickly.

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And we can run through these.

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So the first question that is narrative,

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a long tax writing out is: “What is 
our relationship to that language?”

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So this person last year
kept this short and sweet,

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but really covered their background

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and what they've also been doing
in their language activism work

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over the past year.

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So they wrote, I am the youngest for
a 1993 native speaker of this language,

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and I'm a language
revitalization activist.

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I've learned it from my grandmother
and I teach it to other people.

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I'm also a Ph.D. candidate
at the Institute of … .

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I redacted all information throughout this

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so we're not putting anyone on blast,
but a Ph.D. candidate.

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And they've successfully graduated
since then. So congrats!

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During my work to keep my language alive,

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I have documented about 1600 hours
of conversations in this language

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with about 100 speakers.

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So again, nice, concise,

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tells us about their relationship
a bit more about who they are.

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It's an ancestral language, clearly,

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because they learned it
from their grandmother,

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potentially a mother tongue.

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We know they're working
with this at an academic level

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and they've done their own activism
and revitalization work already.

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So we know that they'll be committed
and excited about joining this cohort

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and putting the grant to use.

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The next question is: “What are
your long-term language goals?”

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As Daniel mentioned, this is not something

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that will be implemented in the one year
that you're working with us.

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We know $2,000 can only go so far

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and it can help kickstart a language
revitalization program

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or help put some more momentum

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into an ongoing exercise
or revitalization program.

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But this is just to give us a general idea
of what's going on in your community.

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Maybe we have other grants or people
you can partnership with in the future

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and just gives us an idea
of the scope and the situation.

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So I put two examples here of last year

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and we don't have
to read them out completely.

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But the first one says:
“In order to revive our language,

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we're planning to compile and publish
a dictionary over the next two years

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and its textbooks over 2 to 5 years.
Here are our goals over 5 to 10 years.”

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And they gave us four very specific goals.

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This person during their one
year project with us,

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their project was to publish a dictionary

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and they gave very specific
metrics for that.

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So this long term language goals
actually shows how this cohort

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will help in moving forward
with their long term language goals.

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And then the second example
is a bit more of a narrative answer,

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and it says, To revitalize our language,

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we first urgently need to facilitate
the passing on of language from the elders

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and this phase of the work.

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Our focus is on both digital preservation

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and building pathways
to connect elders to apprentices.

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We will love to build out a more formal
program to match teachers and students

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both in group settings and one on one.

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And so we liked this answer
because it talks about now,

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but also talks about how those
are building blocks and stepping stones.

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So building out more formalized
programs in the future.

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Next we have, “What are
your language goals for 2023 to 2024?”

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Of course, that's the question
for this year, last year was 2022.

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So someone for this year's cohort wrote,

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"Our goal for 2022 to 2023

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is to collect and revitalize the names
of flora and fauna in our language

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with the help of community members
in our region specifically.

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And they gave us a very specific metrics.

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So as Daniel mentioned at the beginning,
we want we're really looking at projects

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that have one or two
attainable goals within a year.

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That's why we ask about your long-term
goals and then your goals for this year.

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So if you want to compile
a dictionary, it's helpful to it.

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We want to compile a dictionary

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with X amount of words
in our terms or lexicon phrases.

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Your projects might change over the course
of the year, and that's understandable.

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But if we have some type of metric that
we can go on and benchmark that helps us

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and it also helps you in your project

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to not have too much on your plate
throughout the year.

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So say also maybe you want
to work on children's books.

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So in your application for
"What are your language goals for 2023?"

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Instead of writing, "I want to compile
children books for kids in my community",

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you can write, "I want to compile five
children's books for kids in my community,

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and that helps us give a benchmark

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and stay focused and help
your project plan throughout the year.

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So this example
is great because it gives us

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four people that we're working
to men and women.

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We're going through eight communities.

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We're naming local flora
and fauna in this language.

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Then they also had more metrics of like
how many terms they want to put together.

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We have two more to go over
and then we'll move to your questions.

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So how will you achieve
your language goals?

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This person wrote, "The implementation
of materials will take place during

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summer, and fall 2022.

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The curriculum will be incorporated
into the educational programs

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at five schools
in these communities in our region.

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So again, we have some good metrics.

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We also know the timeline,
"summer and fall",

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and then they go through
each of the seasons

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throughout this one year cohort
and what they'll do during those seasons.

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So in the summer they're going
to again using the curriculum.

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There will be workshops where parents
will be separated into these ….-structured

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ethnographic focus groups,
and they created these interviews

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that were then transcribed to collect
data during the teaching year.

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During the regular session, the teachers
then will incorporate those lessons,

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focusing on a certain amount
of hours per week,

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and then we'll implement stuff
from these focus group interviews

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and it continued on throughout the winter
and next spring and summer.

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And then lastly, we ask about other
attempts to revitalize your language.

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Are there a lot of
other projects going on?

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Are there no projects going on?
If there are a lot other projects?

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Why does your project stick out
or why is it filling a gap

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that's been opened
with other revitalization projects?

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So this person approached this

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by talking about other revitalization
at times that have been ongoing.

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So they wrote, There have been several
attempts at documenting our language.

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However, much of this documentation
was only accessible to academics,

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not for providing resources
to the community.

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So it goes and shows us why their project

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will stand out compared to other projects
in the past and why it's really needed.

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"Our language was traditionally
spoken all along the area …"

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that I redacted (Chuckles).

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"Today, there are
less than 10,000 speakers"

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And then why their project is needed,

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"Our project is needed because ex…

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need to be able to tell our own history
in our own language

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on our own terms
and using our own resources

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that do not reside under
the authority of another institution.

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Disconnection from language
and culture means identity loss.

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So it's important that we provide
people in the diaspora

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a way to reconnect
with their cultural heritage.

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And so they continued.

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So this one really spoke to us
because they do talk

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about what other projects
have taken place, and why their is needed.

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And we get more of a story of the region

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and why this is important
to community members.

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So those are all the main questions
of the application.

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The rest are more data collecting
and about you.

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You will notice on this year's
application, we do have a question

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asif your project is related to Wikimedia.

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We have a new track
within next year's grant cycle.

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We received funding
from the Wikimedia Foundation.

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So we have a certain amount of cohort
slots allotted for Wikimedia projects

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and that can be related to a few different
areas of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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And so feel free to apply
for Wikimedia specific projects this year.

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D: And one of the reasons we worked

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with the Wikimedia Foundation 
to start this track

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is last year we received
a lot of applications

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for people who wanted to use Wikipedia
and other Wikimedia Foundation platforms

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as a language revitalization tools.

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So there were people who wanted to create
a version of Wikipedia in their language.

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And this is a very kind of unique
and specific approach

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to language revitalization
that we wanted to be able to support.

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But it requires a certain
specialized technical support

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that we didn't have last year,
but thankfully we will have this year.

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Ch: Yeah! Okay.

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I'm sure we've received
a few questions on YouTube,

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but while I go check those.

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Daniel, we got a couple of questions
on our Instagram account this morning,

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so I'll pass those over to you and then
start checking our YouTube stream.

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So one of the questions was

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'Will the cohort be available
in other languages besides English?"

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D: The cohort will be available primarily
in English and Spanish this year.

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A certain like basic level of English

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is good for being able to benefit fully
from all of the resources that we provide.

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We're working on localizing this
in more and more languages.

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So last year, this current cycle
is available primarily in English.

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Next year will be in English and Spanish.

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And we're hoping the year after that
we can add more languages.

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That said, this year we have a member
of the cohort who does not speak English.

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One of her collaborators, a linguist
working in her community, does.

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And they applied together

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and they attend
all of our cohort calls together.

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So.

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It is not necessary to be fluent
in English by any means.

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Some English proficiency will be helpful,

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but if someone else in your community
is an English speaker,

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then that is fine.

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And we're going to be offering a good deal
of Spanish language support this year.

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And in fact, if you go
to the application page

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for the Language Revitalization
Accelerator as of yesterday,

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there is also a translation in Spanish

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and you can now apply
fully in Spanish as well.

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And we will do our best to subtitle
this video in a few different languages

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so that more people have access to it.

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Ch: Yeah.

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And so if you know someone
who's interested in applying

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or would be interested
in applying, you believe,

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and they do not speak English,
please still encourage them to apply.

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We will not turn down
someone's application

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just because they don't speak English.

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They can even apply in different
languages if they need to.

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If if they don't feel comfortable
writing out their answers in English,

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or they can partner with someone
to write out those answers,

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we are very happy to have people
of all languages to join our cohort,

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but we just won't be able to provide full
translation in all the quarterly check ins

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and things like that
for certain languages.

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But we will do our best.

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Webinars we will get subtitled.

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For example, last week we had a webinar
for our current cohort members

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and it was conducted in English,

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but some of our cohort members
preferred to use Spanish or French.

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So we're currently captioning
that video in Spanish and French

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and it should be available next week
so they can play it back and watch it.

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And we are going to start incorporate
like some more live transcriptions

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and things like that.

00:20:06.389 --> 00:20:09.485
So there are some some
great technology to use with Zoom,

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but you will get benefit
most from the cohort

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or be able to use
all the facilities of the cohort,

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if you do have a somewhat worked

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or somewhat conversational
level of English,

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but we will adapt as necessary
and work with you

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so you can be a part of it.

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D: Yeah!

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And our long term goal is to localize this
in as many lingua franca as possible.

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So, in an ideal world, being available
in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese,

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Russian, Arabic, Indonesian, Swahili.

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But there are limitations
on that as we grow.

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So we thank you for your patience.

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If English is a challenge for you,

00:20:51.108 --> 00:20:54.071
we are working on this
and will improve this from year to year.

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Ch: Yeah! This past cohort, we really
tried to go all in from the beginning

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and did not realize
that live translating or live interpreting

00:21:03.499 --> 00:21:07.196
was more of a thing than we expected,
especially on Zoom.

00:21:07.247 --> 00:21:11.712
So if anyone is very good
at working live interpretation in Zoom,

00:21:11.730 --> 00:21:14.012
please reach out to us over email.

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I would love to talk to you about it

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and get tips on how to make that
run smoothly and navigate that.

00:21:19.496 --> 00:21:23.500
So if anyone has done that before,
please email us at hello@wikitongues.org

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and I would love to have your advice
and pick your way with some questions.

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Yeah, so we've gotten
some more questions.

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Someone wrote in our YouTube
channel as an example,

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"So if I applied for this,

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I'd have a much better chance
to work on Irish or Scots Gaelic

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as opposed to Manchu,
since both of the former are ancestral,

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and Manchu isn't.

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D: That really depends
on what your relationship to Manchu is.

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If you are a linguist, for example,

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working closely with a member
of the Manchu community

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who wants to revitalize their language,
and you're there to support and help them,

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you might actually have
a better chance applying

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for Manchu

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than Scottish Gaelic

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or Irish,

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depending on what you want
to do with Scottish Gaelic or Irish.

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So it really, really depends...

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Again, what's important
is a relationship to the community,

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whether that means
it's your ancestral language

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or you are working closely with someone
whose ancestral language it is.

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Right? And then also
the uniqueness of your project.

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So I think one of the challenges
that you might have in applying for Irish

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is that this is a language
that obviously needs support,

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but it's also a language that has
a lot of active revitalization projects.

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Including a national government
that supports it, right? So...

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You would have to demonstrate
a certain uniqueness of your project

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that would be relevant.

00:23:13.245 --> 00:23:15.811
So it really depends
on the uniqueness of each project

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and your relationship to Manchu
if it's not your ancestral language.

00:23:19.987 --> 00:23:22.110
But the answer is no, not necessarily.

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Yeah, so one other question we have is,
"Could this count for college stock?"

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That depends on your school.

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I don't see why not in certain situations,
that really depends on the class.

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So if you have a language documentation
class and you need to do field work,

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I'm sure you could talk to your professors
about it and get credit for that.

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In terms of like an internship,

00:23:50.152 --> 00:23:52.490
I don't think you could
count as an internship,

00:23:52.524 --> 00:23:54.990
although maybe it depends
on your where you're from.

00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:57.502
It depends on the country you're from

00:23:57.521 --> 00:24:02.728
and what the situation is with
like grant receiving a grant money

00:24:02.748 --> 00:24:05.200
and what the taxes are
and if there is any.

00:24:06.944 --> 00:24:08.653
Reason, you know, like any blockage

00:24:08.666 --> 00:24:11.751
between like an educational
and receiving a grant, I'm not sure.

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It really depends on where
you're based in the situation,

00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:19.502
but I think there is a possibility of it
getting counted as like a project

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or even being able to use the output
of what you create during this grant

00:24:26.470 --> 00:24:28.738
as a school project.

00:24:28.779 --> 00:24:31.645
There's no reason you kind
of write like you will be able

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to keep all the data for yourself,
will have access to things,

00:24:34.863 --> 00:24:36.817
but all the output is copyrighted

00:24:36.831 --> 00:24:39.256
and stays within your name
or within the community,

00:24:39.287 --> 00:24:43.477
whatever you create or whatever
you agree to from the beginning.

00:24:43.490 --> 00:24:45.989
So you can use it for other purposes also.

00:24:49.120 --> 00:24:51.760
Okay. And someone asked
if we could share the slides.

00:24:51.790 --> 00:24:54.640
Yes. There is... Let me make sure.

00:24:55.090 --> 00:24:58.599
Let me get that.
I think that link should work.

00:24:59.430 --> 00:25:04.030
So you should be able to see
a view-only version of the slides there.

00:25:05.008 --> 00:25:06.659
I hope that works for you.

00:25:07.170 --> 00:25:11.706
Okay, and one more question
someone asked on our Instagram.

00:25:11.718 --> 00:25:15.958
if they can apply for a project that's
focused on language normalization.

00:25:18.976 --> 00:25:23.698
D: So Christine and I actually spoke
about this not long before the stream.

00:25:24.234 --> 00:25:30.226
You certainly can apply for a project
focused on linguistic normalization

00:25:30.270 --> 00:25:33.733
as we understand the term
'linguistic normalization'

00:25:33.745 --> 00:25:36.194
is part of language revitalization.

00:25:36.258 --> 00:25:40.438
Because after your community
reclaims their language,

00:25:40.485 --> 00:25:45.504
they need to feel comfortable and proud
using their language in their daily lives.

00:25:45.899 --> 00:25:51.243
And in some cases, you may also want
to educate outsiders about your language.

00:25:51.372 --> 00:25:54.796
A really interesting example of this
is in San Francisco.

00:25:54.837 --> 00:25:56.909
You are starting to see signs

00:25:59.142 --> 00:26:03.672
in the Ohlone language
that teach non-indigenous people

00:26:03.713 --> 00:26:07.420
about the indigenous language
of San Francisco

00:26:07.484 --> 00:26:09.636
and in the San Francisco Bay area.

00:26:09.696 --> 00:26:13.507
And this is partly
to normalize the language,

00:26:13.557 --> 00:26:18.361
but also to educate people
who aren't Ohlone about Ohlone, right?

00:26:18.413 --> 00:26:22.719
So there are all kinds of projects
like this in Cornwall, England.

00:26:23.510 --> 00:26:25.923
There were efforts to get
restaurants and bars

00:26:25.936 --> 00:26:30.492
to put their bathroom signs
and menus and stuff like that in Cornish.

00:26:31.486 --> 00:26:34.259
to normalize the language
and raise awareness about it.

00:26:34.280 --> 00:26:38.184
So this is a part of language
revitalization in many cases,

00:26:38.225 --> 00:26:42.197
and we see no reason
why you couldn't apply for a project

00:26:42.227 --> 00:26:45.079
that was focused on normalization goals.

00:26:47.560 --> 00:26:51.186
Ch: Yeah! So it looks like
that's all of our questions.

00:26:51.278 --> 00:26:54.427
If you have any other questions,
you can send us an email.

00:26:54.467 --> 00:26:58.300
It's in the slides.
It's also hello@wikitongues.org.

00:26:58.540 --> 00:27:02.319
Or you can write us on social media:
on Twitter, Instagram,

00:27:03.040 --> 00:27:06.892
all of those places, YouTube,
but we're quickest to reply by email.

00:27:06.911 --> 00:27:09.627
So just send us an email
to ask any questions

00:27:09.642 --> 00:27:12.496
if you've already sent
in your application this year,

00:27:12.550 --> 00:27:16.246
but some ideas popped in your head
after watching this live stream,

00:27:16.294 --> 00:27:19.732
send us an email and we can
share your answers with you.

00:27:19.747 --> 00:27:21.369
And you can update them.

00:27:21.878 --> 00:27:23.495
We can go through one edit round

00:27:23.510 --> 00:27:26.186
so that you can see them
based on the questions

00:27:26.203 --> 00:27:29.269
that were posed in this live stream
and the answer it's received.

00:27:29.620 --> 00:27:31.493
Yeah, so thank you all for tuning in.

00:27:31.507 --> 00:27:33.910
We're very excited
to receive your applications.

00:27:33.910 --> 00:27:37.874
You have until January 23rd, 2023.

00:27:37.891 --> 00:27:44.300
There'll be lots of reminders until then
and the time deadline is 11:59 p.m. GMT.

00:27:44.469 --> 00:27:47.513
Of course that changes based
on where you are in the world

00:27:47.531 --> 00:27:48.829
by the end of the day.

00:27:48.841 --> 00:27:52.210
GMT is when they're due,
so we'll be sending out reminders.

00:27:52.810 --> 00:27:55.915
Feel free to ask any questions
about the application

00:27:55.956 --> 00:27:59.216
and we're excited to go through them
and see what ideas you all have.

00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:03.120
D: Fantastic. Thank you, everyone.

00:28:03.876 --> 00:28:06.061
Or in one of my ancestral
languages, Yiddish,

00:28:06.075 --> 00:28:08.010
"A sheynem dank!" (Thank you very much!)

00:28:08.122 --> 00:28:10.270
Ch: Kiitos! (in Finnish: Thank you!)