Festival TransAmériques: First Peoples and Their Living Voices
Cultural Event
04/06/2022 12:00 - 13:30
Europe and North America | Montreal | Agora Hydro-Québec | Cœur des sciences de l’UQAM
Cultural performance
Languages: English
The start of the United Nations’ International Decade of Indigenous Languages is a call to action. Linguists predict that between 50 and 90% of the world’s roughly 7,000 languages will have disappeared until the end of the century, and Indigenous languages are the most endangered. Barbara Filion from the Canadian Commission for UNESCO collaborates with First Nations in order to support the protection, maintenance and revitalization of their languages.
With the support of Commission canadienne pour l’UNESCO + Décennie des langues autochtones