Assessing, Monitoring, and Promoting Arctic Indigenous Languages. A Proposal Submitted to the Arctic Council's Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG).

• Main Author: Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) 2011
• Subjects: ICC; Arctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11374/1095

This document describes elements of a multi-year project, led by indigenous peoples, to assess, monitor and promote indigenous language vitality in the Arctic. It comes as a follow- up to recommendations coming out of the 2008 Arctic Indigenous Languages Symposium and the 2009-2010 Scoping a Way Forward initiative, and is anchored in other recent initiatives of indigenous organizations, parliaments, and research networks. Indigenous leaders have strongly voiced the need for an in-depth language assessment, further ‘language symposiums’ and ongoing projects focused on Arctic indigenous languages. This plan is presented as a project proposal to the Arctic Council's Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG).