Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures, and Ecosystems (CELCE)
Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures, and Ecosystems (CELCE)
Indigenous languages reflect the close relationship between people and their natural environment, embodying the complex relationship humans enjoy with landscape and seasons. These connections can be broken when indigenous languages are severed from the ecosystems in which they arose; a situation that can arise through replacement of indigenous languages by more dominant lingua franca, through degradation of the ecosystem, through depopulation, or through forced or voluntary removal of the indigenous language community from the local ecosystem.
If you are interested in joining, please contact Janet Watson J.C.E.Watson@leeds.ac.uk
Events
CELCE Talk. Prof Ian Maddieson: What accounts for the geographical distribution of tone languages?
Speaker: Professor Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico). Title: What accounts for the geographical distribution of tone languages? (with a discursus on...
Research Talk: "Politics of Language, Politics of Death" by Dr Gerald Roche
Speaker: Dr Gerald Roche is a senior lecturer in politics at La Trobe University, on the unceded lands of the...
CELCE Research Talk: Convivencia across linguistic and disciplinary borders: the case of Al-Andalus and the contemporary Maghreb
Centre of Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems (CELCE) Research talk To join on Teams, please email Prof Janet Watson. Title:...
News
New publication – Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula: Language, Culture, Nature
New Open Access book, Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula: Language, Culture, Nature edited by Fabio Gasparini, Kamala Russell, and Janet Watson. About...
Success: British Council International Heritage Protection and Sustainable Development grant awarded to Janet Watson
Janet Watson has been awarded a British Council International Heritage Protection and Sustainable Development grant, which will fund a Yemeni...
Language and/or Nature in Southern Arabia
The online Language and/or Nature in Southern Arabia series hosted PGR students from Oman, Yemen and Saudi Arabia on 9th...