Linguapax Prize

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{{Infobox award

| name = International Linguapax Award

| awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in the field linguistic diversity and/or multilingual education

| presenter = Linguapax (Linguapax International)

| country = Spain

| year = 2002

| website = http://www.linguapax.org/

}}

The International Linguapax Award is awarded annually on International Mother Language Day (21 February) by Linguapax (Linguapax International) "which recognises and awards the actions carried out in different areas in favour of the preservation of linguistic diversity, revitalization and reactivation of linguistic communities and the promotion of multilingualism".{{cite web|url=http://www.linguapax.org/en/linguapax-award |title=International Linguapax Award - Linguapax |accessdate=2012-05-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414221510/http://www.linguapax.org/en/linguapax-award |archivedate=2012-04-14 }}

Candidates are individuals of the academic community and civil society as well as entities or collectives. Nominations for each year's prize are usually made public on 21 February of each year.

Linguapax Award Winners

The International Linguapax Award was first given in 2002.

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Year

! Name

! Affiliation

! Country(ies)

rowspan=2 | 2002

| Bartomeu Melià

| Teko Guaraní

| Spain, Paraguay

Jerzy Smolicz

| University of Adelaide

| Poland, Australia

rowspan=2 | 2003

| Aina Moll

| Institute Joan Alcover

| Spain

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

| University of Roskilde

| Finland, Denmark

rowspan=2 | 2004

| Fernand de Varennes

| Murdoch University

| Canada, Australia

Joshua Fishman

| Yeshiva University, Stanford University

| United States

2005

| Maurice Tadadjeu

| University of Yaoundé I

| Cameroon

2006

| Natividad Mutumbajoy

| Escuela Yachaicury

| Colombia

2007

| Maya Khemlani David

| University of Malaya

| Malaysia

2008

| Neville Alexander

| PRAESA

| South Africa

2009

| Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira

| Te Ataarangi

| New Zealand

rowspan=2 | 2010

| Miquel Siguan i Soler

| University of Barcelona

| Spain

Robert Phillipson

| Copenhagen Business School

| UK, Denmark

rowspan=2 | 2011

| G. N. Devy

| Gujarat

| India

Centro Indígena de Investigaciones Interculturales de Tierradentro

| Cauca

| Colombia

2012

| Jon Landaburu Illaremendi

|

| Colombia, France

2013

| Ledikasyon pu Travayer

|

| Mauritius

2014

| [http://www.escolavalenciana.com Escola Valenciana - Federació d'Associacions per la Llengua]

|

| Valencia, Spain

2015

| Xavier Albo

| Fundación Xavier Albo

| Bolivia

rowspan="2" |2016

| Yambirrpa School Council and Dijarrma Action Group

|

| Australia

International and Heritage Languages Association

|

| Canada

2017

| Matthias Brenzinger

| Centre for African Linguistic Diversity

| South Africa, Germany

2018

| BASAbali

|

| Indonesia

2019

| Larry Kimura

| University of Hawaiʻi

| Hawaii

2020

| Marja-Liisa Olthuis

| Oulu University

| Finland

2021

|Idara Baraye Taleem-o-Taraqi

|

|Pakistan

2022

|ADN Maya collective

|

|Mexico

2023

|Abduweli Ayup

|

|China, Norway

References