Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP)

ျမန္မာဌာေနတိုင္းရင္းသားလက္တြဲေဖၚ ။ Building healthy communities through quality, locally-relevant multilingual education. Because every language matters.

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

@MThibu In all Chin and Kachin languages?
You have lots of learning to do 😺😺😺

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

Languages matter because people matter.

#LanguageRightsAreHumanRights

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

#Language is a vessel, carrying with it the joy, love, pain, and trauma contained within it.

[Arao AMENY @araoameny]

I called one of my aunts in Uganda. That day, I learned that language, like water, can take the shape of the containers they hold. These human containers--soldiers--carried a language when they beat people with sticks and pistols and rifles. (6/7)

[MCIS Language Solutions @MCISLanguages]

On 21 June, MCIS will be sponsoring a virtual panel Interpreters in Times of War to feature war #interpreter stories, and discuss the challenges war interpreters have faced and the importance of staying connected to one another in times of crisis.

RSVP: https://t.co/sNPwLTwypO

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

Interpreters in times of #war

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

S’gaw version: https://t.co/z7om9C0etT

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

Our friend and board member Dr Ashley South recently released a briefing on #climate and livelihoods in #Kawthoolei, Mudraw District in #Myanmar, #Karen State. Read to find a bit about indigenous ways of being and food sovereignty.

https://t.co/R4Q7rj8Kk8

[Paul Meighan | Pòl Miadhachàin @PaulJMeighan]

Languages do not exist in a vacuum and languages do not simply “die”.
Language dominance, “loss”, or shift is not “natural”.
Language policy has enabled dominant language groups to maintain nation-state power at the expense of Indigenous and minoritized language communities.

[International Decade of Indigenous Languages @ILDecade]

Do you have any #bestpractices or ideas to #advocate for #indigenouslanguages?

Share it with us in the comments below!

Register on our website (https://t.co/ZJPgG2MDc0) to get access to thousands of resources, tools and activities!

[Global Coalition for Language Rights @GlobLangRights]

Global Coalition for Language Rights (GCLR) Newsletter: June 8, 2022 - https://t.co/5nqbOykfC7

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

“Sustainable development initiatives for the Coral Triangle countries’ coastal and marine resources rely on local languages, but hundreds are under threat”

[Assoc Prof Lisa Lim @LisaLimLiSu]

How endangered languages in places like Indonesia & Malaysia are a vital tool in saving the marine environment - My latest #LanguageMatters column for Coral Triangle Day (9 Jun) ⁦@Coral_Triangle⁩ ⁦@_coraltriangle_⁩⁩ ⁦@CurtinEducation⁩ https://t.co/1OS5qITVyz

[Dr Gerald Roche @GJosephRoche]

Which term do you prefer? Feel free to explain or offer alternatives below.

[UCL Institute of Education @IOE_London]

Philippine languages – there are as many as 182 – are often wrongly downgraded as dialects due to historically colonial education which favoured English, says @TupasRuanni. He comments on how P-pop including Alamat and SB19 are helping change this.
https://t.co/EBOn4TXkbC

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

Another example of countless examples of U.S. state-sanctioned weaponization of language to infringe on the human right to mobility.

This is #languageviolence

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

Just a reminder that #LanguageRightsAreHumanRights #ဘာသာစကားအခွင့်အရေးကလူ့အခွင့်အရေးဖြစ်တယ်

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

What do you think?

We know that for some in #Myanmar, one’s #language (and #identity) is worth dying for.

Without an essential part of yourself (and your #community and connection to others), what does it mean to live? To be human?

[Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners (MICP) @MyanmarICP]

“Losing our linguistic connections to our cultures and our communities is shown to negatively affect our mental health”

[Sarah F. Phillips @sarahlinguist]

Thrilled to share something personal that relates to the research I do! Thanks @joysauce_ for the opportunity:
What We Lose When We Don’t Speak the Same Language as Our Immigrant Parents https://t.co/AzgyPxZfGJ

[EuroDigitalLang @EuroDigitalLang]

All languages are variants, evolutions or agglomerations of those around them. No language exists in isolation if its geography doesn't naturally isolate its speakers. (1/12)

[Mariona Miret @lamarionamiret]

Tomorrow in Barcelona, JOIN US for an indigenous circle with Dr. Lorna Williams and many wonderful indigenous speakers🤗

In-person & online! For free.
📌 15h CEST · EAE Barcelona campus (C/Aragó 55)
@_FPCC @IAESC1 @MastercardFd

Registration: https://t.co/ZTC5LnrSvi