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The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences extends its congratulations to ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies and the on receiving Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Aid to Scholarly Journals support in the .

Managed by a large editorial collective, including Geography and Environmental Sciences professor David Hugill (one of two editors-in-chief), ACME provides a multilingual forum for critical, interdisciplinary analyses of social, spatial, ecological and political spaces. It publishes work that advances critical frameworks aligned with anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-imperials, anti-speciesist, anti-authoritarian, Black, Indigenous, feminist, crip, trans, queer, and multi-species perspectives. The journal is notable for blending theoretical and methodological boldness with political relevance and embraces multiple formats to increase accessibility to diverse audiences.

The Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (CJAL)/Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée (RCLA) is the official journal of the Canadian association of Applied Linguistics. A bilingual journal, it publishes on a wide range of topics in applied linguistics, including first and second language acquisition, first and second language teaching, bilingual education, sociolinguistics, language planning, sociology of language, psycholinguistics, literacy, and applied phonetics. School of Linguistics and Language Studies professors Michael Rodgers and Eva Kartchava are the journal’s editors-in-chief.

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Congratulations to Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami (School of Linguistics and Language Studies) on the completion of The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics, the first-ever comprehensive resource on the Kurdish language.

The handbook brings together contributors with connections to and across Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora, representing a wide range of linguistic traditions, from structural and applied linguistics to literary, cultural, and historical perspectives.

The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics will be published as an open access title, free to read and download as of Jan. 18, 2027. Hardcover versions of the handbook are now available for purchase on the website.

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Atikamekw Nehirowimowin

The Conseil de la Nation Atikamekw (CNA) is proud to announce the launch of two reference books on the Atikamekw Nehirowimowin language: the Atikamekw-French dictionary and the French-Atikamekw dictionary.

The CNA Language Services team, in collaboration with 杏吧原创 University, has done a tremendous amount of work to create these extraordinary tools to help maintain the vitality of the Atikamekw language.

“After so much effort and dedication, we have succeeded in finalizing this project which required the collaboration of many people. As you know, the Atikamekw language has an oral tradition, but with time, we have been able to develop a standard orthography with letters of the modern Latin alphabet. The dictionaries will be very useful for the preservation of our language,” said Nicole Petiquay, coordinator of Atikamekw linguistic services at the Atikamekw Nation Council.

“By also offering definitions in Atikamekw, this dictionary is one of the first Indigenous language dictionaries to offer unilingual and bilingual definitions,” added Dr. Marie-Odile Junker, Linguistics Professor at 杏吧原创 University.

“The Atikamekw language, which comes from our territory, is our heritage and part of our identity. Until now, we have been able to maintain its vitality and it is still, among all the First Nations languages, one of the most commonly used. However, more than ever, we must continue our efforts to transmit it to future generations. The dictionaries will be great tools in this regard,” said Constant Awashish, Grand Chief of the Atikamekw Nation.

Several copies of the dictionaries have already been ordered by the schools of our communities. They are available at a cost of $55 each. An interactive version is also available online.

Purchase of dictionaries:?

Online dictionary:?

杏吧原创 the Atikamekw Nation Council

As a tribal council, the Atikamekw Nation Council (ANC) provides various services to the communities. The ANC also assumes a role of political representation for the Atikamekw Nation through the office of the President/Grand Chief elected by universal suffrage by all the members of the Atikamekw Nation, collectively holder of the ancestral rights and titles.

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The National Research Council of Canada and Indigenous experts celebrate software for verb conjugation, predictive text, and other technologies developed together

Dr. Marie-Odile Junker (School of Linguistics and Language Studies) will work on web-based Algonquian dictionaries and atlases, as part of the Algonquian Dictionaries and Linguistic Atlas Project Team.

Dr. Junker says:

“We are grateful to the National Research Council of Canada and 杏吧原创 University for their support of deep-rooted, collaborative language projects with well-established partnerships that help increase resources and technologies that serve the needs of speakers and learners.”

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杏吧原创 the Hungarian Course:

Hungarian will be offered at 杏吧原创 University from September 2017 for the very first time in the history of the University. After many years of hard work, 杏吧原创 has reached an agreement with the Government of Hungary through the vital support of the Embassy of Hungary. As a result, the course will be co-sponsored by the Government of Hungary.

Hungarian is a credit language course for complete beginners, no previous knowledge is necessary. It will run 2 x 2 hours per week in the fall and winter terms (from September 2017 until April 2018) that will take students to a solid beginner level (level A1 according to the Common European Framework of Languages). The course will run in the “Less Commonly Taught Languages” program category with the course code LANG 1010B – Hungarian.

The official registration has already begun at the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at 杏吧原创 University.  More information about Hungarian.

Inquiries about the course can be sent to the following email address: hungarian@carleton.ca

The course can be found on social media platforms as well. Feel free to check out the (run by Dr. Emese Bukor, the instructor of the Hungarian course at 杏吧原创): and the SLALS Language Resource Room’s  to find more information (videos) over the summer about Hungarian and Hungarian culture.

Students discussing learning Hungarian

Learning Hungarian

Famous Hungarian inventions (part 1):

Famous Hungarian inventions (part 2):

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Watch highlights from the Linguavision Song Contest and learn more about this year’s event.

Congratulations to the more than 20 performers who participated in last Thursday’s Linguavision Song Contest in Kailash Mital Theatre.

Now into its 3^rd year, Linguavision provides a venue for students in the university’s many language classes (including French and ESL) to take their language learning out of the classroom and onto the stage.

This year’s event featured a wide variety of music including:

• an aria from the German opera “Diomedes”
• a gospel rendition of Adele’s “Hello”
• a rock tune from the soundtrack of the award-winning anime series “Bleach”
• a bittersweet love song by Lebanese singer Fairuz
• a dance-dance revolution version of ヒカリノメロディ (The Melody of Light) with the unforgettable line “An exciting story where pink rabbits dance”
• and more

As well there were original songs written by students in Chinese, Italian, German, and French:

• 对不起 (Sorry) by Kelsey Hayes
• Spero (I hope) by Anick Taverna
• Spülen Spülen Wieder (Rinse Rinse Repeat) by Liam Hoselton
• 28 Heures (28 Hours) by Quinn French

Learn more about the performers, by clicking here.

Photo Credits: Aylin Ilkmen & Abdullah Mohammed

Prize winners for the night include:

Open Category

• Brittany Greier (1^st Prize – $350)
• Mariana Franco (2^nd Prize – $250)
• Riley Cooper (3^rd Prize – $150)
• Yi “Charlotte” Liu (Honourable Mention – $100)
• April Jereza (Honourable Mention – $100)

Original Song Category

• Kelsey Hayes (1^st Prize – $350)
• Anick Taverna (2^nd Prize – $250)
• Liam Hoselton (3^rd Prize – $150)

Judges’ Choice ($100 each)

• Tereza Cerqueira
• Brendan Davey
• Jesse Lam

Audience Choice

• Luo-de-Haizi ($200)
• KKT ($100)

Thanks so much to ALL the performers for such a great night of music. You really put your hearts and souls into your performances. Fantastic and memorable!

And thanks to our emcee, the saxophone-toting , for keeping the evening moving along with poise and to our panel of judges for contributing their time, energy, and linguistic/musical input to the daunting challenge of choosing between the many deserving performances:

• Mohamed Matboully (Arabic)
• (English)
• Toni Collette (French)
• (German)
• Angela Maria Pirozzi & Cecilia Cozzi (Italian)
• Shunichiro Nakao (Japanese)
• (Korean)
• Yunbo (Evie) Zuo (Mandarin Chinese)
• Bruno Fonseca (Portuguese)
• (Spanish)

And to the many language instructors who came out to watch, thanks for being there to support and encourage our students as they put themselves (and their language skills) into the limelight…literally.

Appreciation too to our dynamic volunteer squad for: handing out programs at the front of the house, moving equipment behind the scenes, keeping performers flowing, collecting/tabulating the audience choice awards, taking pictures, and any one of a thousand other duties required to keep the evening running smoothly.   Oh, and special thanks to Jesse Laprade for his classy promotional poster and Josée-Anna Tanner and Miriam Sanfillipo for coming up with many musical trivia questions designed to flummox and delight.

And finally, thanks to our 杏吧原创 sponsors.  Your support makes this event possible: , the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, the Department of , and the .

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