Speakers of ILARA offers filmed creations, interviews or original reports, produced by or in collaboration with speakers of these rare languages, which highlight those who practice them.
This series is one of the formats offered on the YouTube channel of ILARA Online, the virtual branch of the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity. It explores languages that are little described, little studied, little spoken, or disappeared.
I Am Ta Nui, My Mother’s Island
In the first video of this series, meet Marie-Rose Ta Nui Agnie, a speaker of Pa’umotu, a Polynesian language of the Tuamotu Archipelago in the South Pacific. She is a trainer at the Te Fare Natura ecomuseum in Moorea.
I Am a Concrete Koori
In the second video of the series, we are introducing Konstantina (Kate Constantine), a Gadigal speaker and an aboriginal artist of the Eora Nation, from around Sydney, Australie.
Banor at Play
In the third video of the series, Mr. Claude Meintz and his children Frida, Armand, Lucien, and Henri share how they are breathing new life into their father’s ancestral language in their home in Île-de-France.
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PRESENTATION
ILARA, the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity, is a centre for training in, expertise on and resources relating to languages that are rarely studied in a university setting. It offers flexible and innovative courses for such languages, which have either been seldom described or taught in past scholarship, or are now in danger of extinction (some are already extinct), or both. The Institute thus builds a bridge between the study of ancient languages (documented only in writing), and of those languages which possess an extant oral tradition (the documentation of these latter thus includes an audio-visual dimension).