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 [...]
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 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 [...]
“Let’s Come Together” . -video on the Sauk language produced in conjunction with the Sauk Language Department.
The Navajo Language Academy ” is a non-profit educational organization devoted to the scientific study and promotion of the Navajo language. The NLA is a joint effort by professional language teachers and linguists. The NLA has hosted Navajo linguistics workshops for scholars every summer since 1997.” They hold workshops with classes each summer designed [...]
When surfing the internet I came across an interesting site. The Sapporo TV station in Hokkaido owns a radio station which broadcasts a weekly radio program focused on studying the Ainu language. The weekly lessons are released on their website as podcasts, with accompanying printable worksheets. This week’s podcast can be heard for free here:
http://www.stvradio.com/exec/podcast_list.cgi?id=12
(press [...]
Story in the Los Angeles Times: “Researcher gave the Chumash a gift: their heritage:
John Peabody Harrington relentlessly studied Indian families for decades. Today, a 71-year-old woman who considered him a pest is grateful for his intense scholarship..”
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