Hello! Welcome !
Tangyra is a
non-governmental organization open to everybody.
It
was created in January 2006, in France.
The goal of the organization is
to create and to develop links
between people who are interested in
Finno-ugric nations.
Tangyra can
give you the opportunity
to initiate and to participate in projects in various
fields. We implement
and support
projects about
culture, environment, economy, social, sport, education, charity.
NEWS:
May, 28th - 30th, 2009: International Conference on Minority Languages
XII
The conference in Tartu and
Võru (Estonia) will focus on the
study of autochthonous minority languages and communities.
Our secretary and representative Svetlana Edygarova will take part and
read a presentation about the
French-Udmurt
conversation guide, created by Tangyra :
"French-Udmurt conversational guide as an example of popularization of
minority language in Russia"
All the program >>>
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May, 14th - 16th, 2009: IFUSCO !
"The goal of the Conference – activation of scientific-research work in
institutions of higher education of Finno-Ugric countries and regions of
Russian Federation, involvement of members of youth Finno-Ugric
organizations, students to active participation in social activity".
Find more information - mostly in Russian - from the website of
Nuori
Karjala ("Youth Carelia")
The conference takes place in Petroskoi (Petrozavodsk in Russian), in
the Russian Carelia.
Information
letter
Programme (in Russian)
Like every year, a few members of Tangyra participated in the conference.
Report
(in English)
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April, 14th -
19th, 2009:
Tangyra took part in the training course "Quest
for Quality in Training and Networking projects" (Q4Q), organized by
the French National Agency for the YOUTH in Action Programme, in
partnership with the German National Agency.
Svetlana was our representative at this training course, that was held in Marly-Le-Roi, near Paris.
Very valuable
meeting that has enabled us to know better the European programs,
especially the Youthpass (Youthpass),
and that will help us to develop our network and find new partners
sharing the same principle of promotion of cultural diversity.
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"The last Livonian" is dead.
Viktor Berthold, probably the last Livonian speaker of the generation who learnt Livonian as first language in a Livonian-speaking family and community, is dead on February 28th, 2009, ironically, the day of Kalevala (day of Finnish culture).
"As reported
in the Estonian newspaper "Eesti
Päevaleht", Viktor Berthold was born in 1921 and probably belonged
to the last generation of children who started their (Latvian-medium)
primary school as Livonian monolinguals; only a few years later it was
noted that Livonian parents had begun to speak Latvian with their
children. During World War II, Berthold, unlike most Livonian men,
managed to avoid being mobilized in the armies of either occupation
force by hiding in the woods. After the war, Berthold worked in various
professions and shared his knowledge of Livonian language with many
field linguists; in the 1990s, he also taught Livonian in children's
summer camps.
Berthold's last Livonian-speaking family members, his brother and his
wife, died in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, many other prominent "last
Livonians" have also passed away, such as Poulin Klavin (1918-2001),
keeper of many Livonian traditions and the last Livonian to reside
permanently on the Courland coast, and Edgar Vaalgamaa (1912-2003),
clergyman in Finland, translator of the New Testament and author of a
book on the history and culture of the Livonians ("Valkoisen hiekan
kansa", Jyväskylä 2001).
The survival of the Livonian language now depends on young Livonians
who, in the best case, may have learnt Livonian in their childhood from
grandparents or great-grandparents of the pre-war generations. There are
not very many of them, but all in all, there are a few hundred ethnic
Livonians in Latvia now who are interested in their Livonian roots. Some
young Livonians not only sing folk-songs in Livonian but even strive at
actively using Livonian in everyday communication."
(Johanna Laakso)
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