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| David Dalby |
1977: Ebo Hawkson, Ghana’s deputy chairman of the National Commission on Culture, makes a speech in which he urges Africans to make ex-colonial languages their own by not always following European norms.
1988: The Canadian Supreme Court concludes that all provincial laws of Saskatchewan are void, having been written in English only, rather than in English and French. A hastily adopted additional bill is necessary in order to restore the validity of Saskatchewan legislation.
2000: At the Expolangues exhibition in Paris, David Dalby launches his Linguasphere Register—an Ethnologue-like comprehensive survey of the world’s languages.
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