ELL: Endangered Languages Debate

[Matthew McDaniel]

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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 11:18:01 +0700
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not that ratios are important, (would be nice to import those historic people
to
here now) but we have a 100 missionaries over here who aren't doing that
2-100,
that is a ratio of 50 to 1, not very good odds.  Not as well financed as the
destroyers are.

Matthew

Kelvin Massey wrote:

> Henry,
>
> I agree with you that the acceptance of Christianity has for some indigenous
> peoples been a means of preserving their language and culture.  The
>Cherokees
> in the southeastern U.S. are a perfect example.  The most courageous
> non-Cherokee defenders of their rights during the last century were
> missionaries.  Two of these missionaries spent a year in prison for their
> advocacy of Cherokee rights. Samuel Worcester, who was one of those
> imprisoned, was instrumental in founding the Cherokee Phoenix (a bilingual
> newspaper) as well as in designing the typescript for the Cherokee
>syllabary.
> He continously agitated for the right of Cherokee people to speak and write
>in
> their own language, and continued his work in Oklahoma after their forced
> removal.  The courageous examples of Worcester and other missionaries are
> probably why so many Cherokees today are Christians, and why
>Cherokee-language
> churches are seen as embodiments of traditional culture by many Cherokees
> (there are traditionalist non-Christian Cherokees as well).
>
> Kelvin Massey
> University of Tennessee--Knoxville
>
> >===== Original Message From endangered-languages-l at carmen.murdoch.edu.au
> =====
> >So many people have criticized the recent debate/arguments.  One
> >way to deal with this if you don't like the current issue, is to post
> >one of your own.  I attempted to do this by presenting the example
> >of the Ojibwe and Hawaiians on Niihau.  I attempted to look
> >at language [which is what this list is supposed to be about]
> >specifically, while incorporating the issue of religion that Matthew
> >so often talks about.  Yet there has been not one comment about
> >my posting.  Not even Matthew has commented on the apparent
> >contrast to the situation with the Akha that I have presented.
> >If the ideal of this list is discussion of endangered languages, why
> >does no discuss what I have presented or bring up a language
> >topic of their own?
> >
> >Henry Szymonik
> >
> >
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