LING 6390 Seminar in Sustainability and Language Endangerment
Virginia Beavert keeping Sahaptin language alive
BY PAT MUIR
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
Linguist Virginia Beavert speaks five of the fourteen original dialects of the plateau tribes, including Yakama, and has been a long time teacher of the languages and active in their preservation. For her work with tribal languagues she’s has been awarded an honoray doctorate degree from [...]
Play-by-play commentary in aboriginal languages a labour of love, creativity
February 20, 2010
PAUL WATSON
VANCOUVER–There is no word for seconds in the Mohawk language, which makes it especially difficult to call the action in an Olympic ski race live for television.
From PBS.org: “We Shall Remain: Native Now Language with video We Shall Remain: Native American languages are at a critical juncture. With most fluent speakers older than 50, many languages are on the brink of extinction.
On this site, three tribes at different stages of revitalization talk about their innovative efforts to revive their [...]
The Web Way to Learn a Language
By ERIC A. TAUB
Published: January 27, 2010
The young woman seated next to us at the sushi bar exuded a vaguely exotic air; her looks and style, we thought, made it likely that she was not American born.
The J.P. Harrington Project at the University of California, Davis, is seeking to make the field notes accessible to linguists and community members.
The University of Hawai’i has a digital archive collection that includes newspapers produced in the Hawaiian language.
For more details on the health of the Maori language, see this.
The links at the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Insitute for Evolutionary Anthropology include the Leipzig Glossing Rules, Typological tools for field linguistics, the Leipzig Endangered Languages Archives (LELA), and Ethic Guidelines, among other resources.
This interview highlights many of the issues raised in “The Linguists.” Check out additional info at the Living Tongues Foundation and at the Language Hotspots websites.
The goal of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival is “[t]o foster the restoration and revival of indigenous California language so that they may be retained as a permanent part of the living cultures of native California” AICLS is known for programs like Breath of Life and the Master-Apprentice Program; Leanne Hinton is [...]
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