twtw - sat june 23 2012




CBC News: The World This Weekend show

Summary: We have a report from the Tsawout First Nation on Vancouver Island, where they are contributing to a giant on-line reserve of endangered languages established by the charitable arm of Google. The ancient language of the Tsawout is called Senchotin. Volunteers are transcribing and cataloguing its words and phrases, and practising to become fluent. Other endangered languages around the world are also being digitized -- in an effort to preserve their cultural and scientific legacies. We also hear from Rwanda where the world's largest judicial system was temporarily established in the wake of the 1994 genocide. The community-based system has done its work and was wrapped-up this week by the President. The trials of over 2 million suspects would have taken 300 years in the normal judicial system.