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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>The history of the Jaqi attempts to get bilingual education date from way back, without the official support necessary — with, actually, official prohibition. I was surprised to find so many attempts when I first went to Bolivia; in Puno they actually took up arms in an attempt to get schools; Tupe has maintained the language in spite all efforts to the contrary — and there was certainly community interest when I came on the scene.<BR>
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I have written about this over the six decades I have been working, but I can’t remember, at this moment, where I have done so.<BR>
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One great curiosity is the word <qillqa> read, write, book — with no written language? And the whole litany of petroglyphs and weaving-writing — so much yet to know. MJ<BR>
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On 11/18/14, 6:11 AM, "Ylikoski Jussi" <<a href="jussi.ylikoski@uit.no">jussi.ylikoski@uit.no</a>> wrote:<BR>
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According to the received view, the history of modern language revitalization seems to begin from the Hebrew and Gaelic revivals in the 19th century. The motives and impact factors of people such as Pāṇini, Gutenberg and Herder aside, and disregarding the rise of European nation states and their national languages, I would be interested to know whether there have been less known – and presumably less successful – early ("pre-Hebraic" and "pre-Gaelic") collective efforts that could be characterized as language revitalization in a sense of consciously and systematically trying to halt or reverse the decline of a language or to revive an extinct one. Anywhere in the world?<BR>
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Needless to say, I would be grateful for any references to published work on this issue.<BR>
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Best regards,<BR>
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Jussi<BR>
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<a href="http://ansatte.uit.no/jussi.ylikoski/">http://ansatte.uit.no/jussi.ylikoski/</a><BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Dr. MJ Hardman<BR>
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Linguistics, Anthropology and Latin American Studies<BR>
University of Florida<BR>
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú <BR>
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