Language preservation
Languages kept spoken, taught, and written.
Criteria & scope →
Focus — Category 06
CULTURE, ARTS & LANGUAGE.
Ideas that keep living culture in use — languages spoken, knowledge passed on, places cared for, and creative work that sustains those who make it.
Areas in this category
LANGUAGE, MEMORY, CRAFT, AND CREATIVE LIFE.
Oral traditions
Spoken knowledge carried between generations.
Criteria & scope →Cultural documentation
Recording practice, place, and memory, on community terms.
Criteria & scope →Expressive and performing arts
Music, dance, theatre, and visual work with a place to happen.
Criteria & scope →Traditional ecological knowledge
Long-held knowledge of land, water, and season.
Criteria & scope →Cultural landscapes and waterways
Places that hold meaning as well as function.
Criteria & scope →Crafts and regenerative materials
Making by hand, with materials that renew.
Criteria & scope →Cultural exchange
Encounters between communities that leave something behind.
Criteria & scope →Creative livelihoods
Making a living from creative work.
Criteria & scope →Intergenerational knowledge transfer
Older and younger people learning from each other.
Criteria & scope →Every area has its own criteria. Read them before you write to us.