La Società per l'Ilesnaziun del Glheþ Naziunal

Società per l'Ilesnaziun del Glheþ Naziunal

Current Head: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial

Function: - to document, preserve and proliferate the Talossan language, - to recommend a standard language for government use, and - to provide glheþinations wherever they are needed..

The Società per l'Ilesnaziun del Glheþ Naziunal, or Society for the Facilitation of the National Language, is an organization of those interested in promoting and managing the use of the Talossan language. SIGN is responsible for the in-progress new grammar of the Talossan language, Dals Recomendăs sür el Glheþ Talossan.

History

SIGN was founded in September 2017 by Iac Marscheir to provide an alternative to the seemingly moribund Comità per l'Útzil del Glheþ, the body that had traditionally overseen the study of the Talossan language ever since 1983. It subsequently attempted to hold its first congress on language reform without much success, and mostly lay dormant until 2019, when talks of an alternative body to CUG - which, by that point, had been inactive for at least two years - spun back up.

In early 2020, CUG was stripped of its Organic role as the official Talossan language organization by the ratification of the Still Into This Amendment and, consequently, of the 2017 revision to the Organic Law; in anticipation of this, Marcel Tafial was appointed Provisional Convenor of SIGN by then-Culture Minister Miestră Schivă, with the aim of producing a provisional unified standard for the Talossan language and getting SIGN organisationally off the ground. This was accomplished by the adoption of a package of bylaws (Rules of SIGN) in December 2019, and the publishing of the Recomendăs in September 2020.

Membership

Membership in SIGN is open to anyone. Before the adoption of rules in 2019, members were accepted without a vote; current rules stipulate a majority vote of the current members is needed to accept new members, except for members of CUG as of December 2019, who are accepted without a vote.

Membership roll of SIGN (as of Feb 2023)

Member	Joined
Iac Marscheir	9 Sep 2017
Marcel Tafial	13 Sep 2017
Cresti Nouacastra-Läxhirescu	13 Sep 2017
Magniloqueu da Lhiun	16 Sep 2017
Miestră Schivă	14 Jan 2020
Françal Ian Lux	21 Jul 2020
Xhorxh Pol Brigă	?
Lüc da Schir	5 Jan 2023
Txec dal Nordselvă	9 Jan 2023
Breneir Tzaracomprada	13 Jan 2023
Üc Tärfâ	12 Feb 2023
Cresti Siervicül	12 Oct 2024

Rules of SIGN (last updated 28 February 2023)

Rule 1. The name of this organisation is "La Società per l'Ilesnaziun del Glheþ Naziunal", or "SIGN" for short. SIGN's logo is a Bicoloreu circle with blue arrows coming out of it in every cardinal direction. The flag of the Talossan language and its speakers is a horizontal tricolour of black, white and grey in proportion 1:1:2.

Rule 2. SIGN's goals are:

• to document, preserve and proliferate the Talossan language,
• to recommend a standard language for government use, and
• to provide glheþinations wherever they are needed.

Rule 3. Anyone who is interested can ask to join SIGN. If an absolute majority of members supports this, or if two months have passed with a plurality of members supporting this, the applicant becomes a full member. If the applicant was a member of the Comità per l'Útzil del Glheþ as of Llimbaziuă 2019/XL, the voting is skipped and they become a full member immediately.

Members can be required to signal their continued membership at most once per calendar year. Members that fail to respond to this request are assumed to have resigned from SIGN and lose their membership status. If a former member of SIGN requests to rejoin, the voting is skipped and they become a full member immediately.

Rule 4. A SIGN member can suggest a change to the recommended standard language or this set of SIGN rules at any time. If at least a two-thirds majority of members support this within two months, the change comes into effect on the Sunday three weeks after the change was accepted.

Rule 5. SIGN shall regularly publish a journal outlining upcoming changes to the standard or other information that could be relevant to the Ladintsch community. SIGN shall also keep all materials under its purview up-to-date at all times.

External links

SIGN's Provisional Rules, April 2020