A website that documents all existing languages and provides videos of them. Their purpose is language revitalization. They also have various languages spoken with different accents. They have short and intriguing videos on their YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/wikitongues
This essay compares the controversies surrounding actions taken by two school boards-one in Hawai'i and the other in Oakland-in their attempts to help students in their districts attain fluency in standard English. Public reactions expressed during each of these two incidents demonstrated a general lack of understanding about languages and nonstandard dialects. The myths and characterizations about Hawai'i Creole English and African American Vernacular English, and the issues these two stigmatized dialects have raised, point to educational policy implications concerning academic achievement and the politics of language.