Lotud

SIL article re: Lotud (Malaysia) Dictionary workshop

Submitted by Kevin Warfel on Mon, 2014-10-06 16:19

An article published by SIL regarding the September 2013 Rapid Word Collection workshop for the Lotud-speaking community in Malaysia can be found at the following link:

http://www.sil.org/about/news/community-collaborates-first-dictionary-suang-lotud

Suang Lotud RWC workshop held in Malaysia September 18-29

Submitted by Kevin Warfel on Wed, 2013-12-04 15:25

A RWC workshop organized by the Suang Lotud community was held near Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia September 18-29, 2013. It was not the ideal time to hold the workshop, as many Lotud speakers were unavailable, but it was the only time that would work for certain key participants.

Dictionary-making workshop for the Gusilay in Senegal

Submitted by Kevin Warfel on Thu, 2017-03-23 14:50

Collecting words for the parts of a house

(March 2017) In the town of Thionck-Essyl in the south of Senegal, speakers of the Gusilay (Gusiilaay) language are celebrating the success of a recent Rapid Word Collection (RWC) workshop, where they collected a total of 12,485 words in 11 days. The workshop was publicized on the local radio station, including interviews of participants who voiced the importance of their collective work, resulting in a room full of Gusilay speakers at the closing ceremony, ready to join the celebration.