Lingotell

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Lingotell is an people-centred and forward-looking approach, aiming towards a change in how narrative stories are managed and valued both as part of our cultural heritage and to fuel minority and indigenous languages. Lingotell is a small-scale cooperation project between Fryske Akademy (Netherlands), Pro Progressione (Hungary) and Sijti Jarnge (Norway) working together to explore the process of strengthening indigenous and minority languages through the art of retelling, redesigning and redefining narrative stories focusing on South sami, frisian and roma languages. The project aims at strengthening these languages as well as to safeguard the cultural heritage of these communities. Through the self-selected collection and dissemination of stories from these communities, summarised and placed in the contexts of today, we will start a process of understanding how these stories, often told in endangered languages, can be utilised to fuel the minorities and thereby also our European multilinguistic shared future. But to do so the stories need to be reformulated beyond the confines of our narrative identities. The stories appear in different forms, such as orally told legends, songs, poems, yoiks, myths, dances and written stories. The main findings and common features, including the key-factors in the art of restorying, will be summarised and made available as a digital package, incl. podcasts, free to download. The project will contribute to increased mutual understanding among Europeans, not only between the Indigenous Peoples and regional minority groups directly included, but among people in Europe as a part of our European shared future. The working process initiates interaction between informants/cultural artists, participants – especially young people, professionals within the cultural and minority language area, aiming at skill transfer, the anchoring of successful methods of restorying, as well as the empowerment of the minority and indigenous in this context