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The
New Zealand M¨¡ori Word Encyclopedia is out, and is selling throughout
New Zealand
. Plans are for expansion to Australian distribution. The next step is for the book to become
widely used in schools and universities. To help you learn M¨¡ori, we have posted some lessons to use with the NZ M¨¡ori Word Encyclopedia.
The
next two Word Encyclopedias are being compiled, the French and the Chinese. Also a part of the Native American Word Encyclopedia will be
published as soon as possible, a Tlingit bilingual story.
Travel,
as always, is an expensive part of research, and this is especially of concern
with such a range of world language projects. This year, travel expenses for
France
last
summer are still being met. Thanks
to those organic gardens in
France
which acted as host to Sally. Possibilities opened up in
France
, calling for increased
business development to support writing time and research there in future.
Sally
expects to visit
Alaska
to meet with Tlingit people this summer. Some work is being done to increase
funding for travel.
The
Chinese work is being done on location, and financed through universiy
teaching. Cathy Lee has been a
great help with translating and business negotiations. As she is most available over this and
the next year, it is important to work with her while possible. Also, the toll of the pollution in
China
, in the
manufacturing center of the world with high proportion of coal as fuel, on
one¡¯s health requires that time should be used most urgently to complete the
Chinese Word Encyclopedia soon. It
will be bilingual, available to both English and Chinese readers. Further travel within
China
for
photographing and for research would be desirable, if possible. Soon various authorities in the field in
China
should be contacted, once a first complete section of several words, xiao and shao, is
complete. A network of proposed
contacts is developing. It is felt
that a hiatus may be observed, and that the French book may come out first.
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