Dr Stephen Morey (CRLD, La Trobe University) on the languages of the Tangsa people of northern India and the problems of language standardisation in linguistically diverse communities. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Slides for 'Can a ‘Common Language’ Work for the Tangsa?' by Dr Stephen Morey. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Handout for 'Can a ‘Common Language’ Work for the Tangsa?' by Dr Stephen Morey. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Piers Kelly (PhD student, Australian National University) on his recent research experience with the Eskayan script of the Philippines and the implications of the language innovation. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Jasmin Morley (PhD student, University of Adelaide) on the challenges encountered in the process of reviving indigenous languages in Australia. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Professor Jane Simpson (Head of the School of Language Studies at the Australian National University) on using language, speech communities, and whether to standardise or not. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Felix Ameka (Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University) on the processes of preparing language documentation products. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Simon Overall (CRLD, La Trobe University) on linguistic, ideological and practical motivations in Aguaruna orthography, spoken in the Amazon in Peru. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Handout for 'Linguistic Motivations in Aguaruna Orthography' by Dr Simon Overall. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Professor David Bradley (Linguistics, La Trobe University) on the issues that Lisu speakers have with standardisation. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Handout for 'Standardisations of Lisu: Competition and Convergence' by Professor David Bradley. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Anthony Jukes (CRLD, La Trobe University) on how the Manado Malay use Facebook to communicate in a unique fashion. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Slides for 'Creative Facebook Communication in Manado Malay' by Dr Anthony Jukes. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Cindy Schneider (School of Behavioural and Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England) on language standardisation and language diversity in Kairak (East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea), and ideals and realities in coexistence. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

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Dr Nicholas Ostler (chairman of the Foundation for Endangered Languages and author of The Last Lingua Franca and Empires of the Word) the relationship between standards and linguistic diversity. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Felix Ameka (Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University) on how literacy standardises and loses a lot of characteristics in language. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Assoc. Professor Adam Schembri (Director, Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University) addresses myths and misunderstanding around sign languages, and the pressures that are making sign languages increasingly endangered. Copyright 2012 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Transcript for 'Sign languages in a globalised world' by Assoc. Professor Adam Schembri. Copyright 2012 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Slides for 'Sign languages in a globalised world' by Assoc. Professor Adam Schembri. Copyright 2012 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Professor Kate Burridge (Chair of Linguistics, Monash University) on the success of the English language, the considerable cost and the widespread linguistic destruction it has caused. Copyright 2012 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Professor Jane Simpson (Head of the School of Language Studies at the Australian National University) on how Indigenous Australian languages had to evolve and adapt to accommodate words for new concepts, such as glass and goats. Copyright 2012 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Nicholas Ostler (chairman of the Foundation for Endangered Languages and author of The Last Lingua Franca and Empires of the Word) on the need for languages, particularly English, to adapt to change. Can English be challenged as the world's lingua franca? Copyright 2012 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.