The international Working Group has finished its work on the final document of high-level international conference “World Treasury of Mother Tongues: Nourish and Cherish. National and International Context, Policies and Practices to Preserve Indigenous Languages” (5-7 July, Moscow, Russian Federation).

 

This document was elaborated by the joint efforts of conference participants from 44 countries.

 

The conference has become Russia’s significant contribution to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages ​​and the implementation of the UNESCO Information for All Programme, the only intergovernmental interdisciplinary programme in the world to place preservation of languages ​​and development of linguistic diversity in cyberspace among its priorities. 

 

The event gathered about 150 prominent Russian and international experts in the field of education, culture, social sciences and humanities, communication and information (including advanced language technologies and other information technologies), representatives of governing bodies, civil society institutions and private sector to discuss not only preservation and revitalization of indigenous languages, but also broader contexts (linguistic, sociocultural, historic, economic, geopolitical, etc.) in which indigenous people and their languages exist and survive.