Cilldi - Canadian Indigenous Languages And Literacy Development Institute

CILLDI supports and assists Indigenous language activists in promoting, protecting, practicing, and passing on their languages.

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CILLDI (pronounced ‘sill-dee’) hosts an annual summer school held at the University of Alberta, and is dedicated to the revitalization of Canada’s Indigenous languages through documentation, teaching, and literacy. Our purpose is to support individuals at the community level by providing basic training in linguistics, native languages, second language teaching, and other aspects of professional enhancement such as language-related research and policy making.

CILLDI has been in operation since 2000. Throughout this time, it has provided practical training to students, training which has been directly implemented back in the community. It is a tri-Faculty initiative at the University of Alberta, involving the Faculties of Arts, Education, and Native Studies. CILLDI strives to be multicultural, cross-linguistic, interdisciplinary, interregional, intergenerational, and responsive to different sociolinguistic situations in language communities under threat.

Take a look at the videos of some of our events!

http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=T1Djm1RcF9M

http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=mPcQztXB0hA

http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=R7E70xy5sFM

http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=ktzhonYXHME

http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=xnL3dWlIYt8

Or see our youtube channel at:
http://www. youtube.com/channel /UC960LkRBA8RJ3IfEC12cnNg?feature=guide