From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun  1 07:34:50 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:34:50 -0700
Subject: Movement to save a dying Alaska language struggles (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.1.JUN.2012.003450.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Movement to save a dying Alaska language struggles

Katie Medred | May 31, 2012
US

St. Paul Island, Alaska is one of the largest Aleut communities in the
world, but its language has long been in danger of dissolving.

According to Alaska Public Radio Network, over the last decade Unangam
Tunuu, the heritage language of the Aleut people, has experienced something
of a revival. But despite making some progress, efforts to revitalize the
endangered language seems to be flat lining.

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http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/movement-save-dying-alaska-language-struggles
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From nievespi14 at YAHOO.ES  Mon Jun  4 17:55:11 2012
From: nievespi14 at YAHOO.ES (Yolanda Payano)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 18:55:11 +0100
Subject: 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks
 Them) (fwd
In-Reply-To: <fc.003d09dc024be1683b9aca001f55868d.24be169@learnnet.nt.ca>
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUN.2012.185511.0100.NIEVESPI14@YAHOO.ES>

Hi, my name is Nieves. I speak JAQARU language, which is spoken in AIZA, COLCA  and TUPE, in Lima - Perú. 



________________________________
De: William Firth <WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA>
Para: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
Enviado: Viernes 18 de Mayo de 2012 18:33
Asunto: Re: [ILAT] 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks Them) (fwd

Unfortunately, I am out of the office at this time.  If this is of an
important matter, please contact the GSCI Executive Director @ (867)
952-2524.  Thank you and have a good day!
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 18:39:12 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:39:12 -0700
Subject: Translation makes Bible available to Inuktitut speakers (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUN.2012.113912.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Translation makes Bible available to Inuktitut speakers

MICHAEL POSNER
The Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, Jun. 03 2012, 7:03 PM EDT

It has taken an un-Genesis-like 34 years to create, but Inuit communities
in Canada’s Eastern Arctic can now read the complete Bible in their own
language.

A consecration ceremony to mark the translation of the King James Version
into Inuktitut – the official language in Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut
– was held Sunday at the new St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral in Iqaluit,
Nunavut.

The project, jointly undertaken by the Canadian Bible Society and the
Anglican Church of Canada, cost about $1.75-million, according to Hartmut
Wiens, CBS’s director of scripture translation.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:01:49 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:01:49 -0700
Subject: $900m bill to save Aboriginal languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUN.2012.120149.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

$900m bill to save Aboriginal languages

Bianca Hall, June 2, 2012
AUS

MANY Aboriginal languages are in danger of extinction, a parliamentary
committee has been told, with just 20 to 30 considered ''viable''.

More than 250 languages were spoken in 1788 but the Australian Institute of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies was able to identify only 145
languages in 2005. Of those, 110 were classified as ''severely and
critically endangered''.

Read more:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:03:54 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:03:54 -0700
Subject: Indigenous languages in threat of extinction (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUN.2012.120354.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Indigenous languages in threat of extinction

June 2, 2012
AUS

A number of Aboriginal languages are in danger of extinction, a
parliamentary committee was told this week, with just 20 to 30 considered
viable.

In 1788, it is estimated, more than 250 languages were spoken. By 2005,
when the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies did a national survey of languages, it identified just 145
languages. Of those, 110 were classified as ''severely and critically
endangered'', meaning they were spoken by small groups of people who were
mostly older than 40.

The standing committee for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs on
languages, which met on Thursday, was told it could cost $900 million to
save languages under threat.

Read more:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/indigenous-languages-in-threat-of-extinction-20120601-1znjb.html#ixzz1wqwFu8Pk
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From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Mon Jun  4 19:24:43 2012
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:24:43 -0500
Subject: Translation makes Bible available to Inuktitut speakers (fwd
 link)
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:39:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:39:10 -0700
Subject: Australian aboriginal canoes help re-launch pride (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUN.2012.123910.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Australian aboriginal canoes help re-launch pride

By Pauline Askin
SYDNEY | Mon Jun 4, 2012 5:21am EDT

(Reuters) - As light fades on the shores of Sydney Harbour, a group of men
finish building a traditional aboriginal canoe using bark from eucalyptus
trees. Smoke smothers the strips of bark as heat from a fire below curves
the wood into the shape of a canoe.

Just offshore massive container ships and multi-million dollar pleasure
yachts anchor on the harbour, a world away from the days when Aborigines
paddled bark canoes across the same body of water.

But now, Australia's Aborigines are trying to revive the ancient skill of
canoe building, known as Nawi, and pass the knowledge on to younger men in
a bid to instil cultural pride.

"It's a big part of their story. The canoe culture is something they've
lost," David Payne, canoe builder and curator at the Australian Maritime
Museum, told Reuters.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:42:33 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:42:33 -0700
Subject: Elders in Peruvian Andes Help Interpret Climate Changes (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUN.2012.124233.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Elders in Peruvian Andes Help Interpret Climate Changes

Written by Milagros Salazar
Monday, 04 June 2012 11:06

(IPS) - A unique response to the challenge of global warming is happening
in rural areas of Peru, where a network of indigenous elders is working out
how to adjust weather forecasts in the light of climate change, while
taking measures to safeguard their crops.

"Before, things happened at the right time. Now, strange things are going
on with the climate." This is the kind of comment that is heard frequently
in dozens of rural communities throughout the departments (provinces) of
Puno, Cuzco and Apurímac in the country’s southern Andean highlands.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:50:42 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:50:42 -0700
Subject: 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks
 Them) (fwd
In-Reply-To: <1338832511.65169.YahooMailNeo@web132103.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUN.2012.125042.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings Nieves, nice to meet you and welcome to ILAT.

Phil Cash Cash
UofA, Tucson, AZ

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Yolanda Payano <nievespi14 at yahoo.es> wrote:

> Hi, my name is Nieves. I speak JAQARU language, which is spoken in AIZA,
> COLCA  and TUPE, in Lima - Perú.
>
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:07:56 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:07:56 -0700
Subject: Translation Tools Could Save Less-Used Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.170756.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Translation Tools Could Save Less-Used Languages

Languages that aren't used online risk being left behind. New translation
technology from Google and Microsoft could help them catch up.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012
BY TOM SIMONITE
US

Sometimes you may feel like there's nothing worth reading on the Web, but
at least there's plenty of material you can read and understand. Millions
of people around the world, in contrast, speak languages that are still
barely represented online, despite widespread Internet access and improving
translation technology.

Web giants Microsoft and Google are trying to change that with new
translation technology aimed at languages that are being left behind—or
perhaps even being actively killed off—by the Web. Although both companies
have worked on translation technology for years, they have, until now,
focused on such major languages of international trade as English, Spanish,
and Chinese.

Microsoft and Google's existing translation tools, which are free, are a
triumph of big data. Instead of learning as a human translator would, by
studying the rules of different languages, a translation tool's algorithms
learn how to translate one language into another by statistically comparing
thousands or millions of online documents that have been translated by
humans.

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http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428093/translation-tools-could-save-less-used-languages/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:09:52 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:09:52 -0700
Subject: Indigenous LOTE program saves dying language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.170952.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

6 June, 2012 11:04 AM AEST

Indigenous LOTE program saves dying language

By Alice Roberts
AUS

Speaking to one another is something we take for granted but for some
people their language is slowly dying.

The community of Woorabinda, 200 kilometres west of Rockhampton, is paving
a new way for education with their Indigenous LOTE program.

The program is teaching primary school students the Ghungalu dialect.

Chairman of the Woorabinda LOTE Program Shemmie Leisha is a Ghungalu
descendent and one of only six Australians who can speak his family's
language.

"I see us as the Ghungalu's leading the way for other language groups
because Woorabinda is made up of 52 different language groups," he says.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:12:31 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:12:31 -0700
Subject: Stop, revive and survive (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.171231.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Stop, revive and survive

BY: GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN
From: The Australian June 06, 2012 12:00AM

LINGUICIDE (language killing) and glottophagy (language eating) have made
Australia the unlucky country. With globalisation, homogenisation and
Coca-colonisation there will be more and more groups added to the forlorn
club of the lost-heritage peoples.

Language reclamation will become increasingly relevant as people seek to
recover their cultural autonomy, empower their spiritual and intellectual
sovereignty, and improve wellbeing.

There are various ethical, aesthetic and utilitarian benefits of language
revival - for example, historical justice, diversity and employability,
respectively. There is an urgent need to offer perspicacious insights
relevant to language reclamation.

Revival linguistics is a new discipline, being established at Adelaide,
studying comparatively and systematically the universal constraints, global
mechanisms and local peculiarities and idiosyncrasies apparent in revival
attempts across various sociological backgrounds, all over the world.
Revival linguistics combines scientific studies of native language
acquisition and foreign language learning. After all, language reclamation
is the most extreme case of second-language learning.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/stop-revive-and-survive/story-e6frgcko-1226385194433
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:33:01 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:33:01 -0700
Subject: Brazil's Indigenous Awa Tribe At Risk (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.173301.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 Brazil's Indigenous Awa Tribe At Risk
[image: Brazil Indigenous Awa Tribe]
In this Nov. 2011 photo released in 2012 by Survival International, Awa
Indians point their bow and arrows in Maranhao state, Brazil. (AP
Photo/Survival International)

By MARCO SIBAJA<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/brazils-indigeneous-awa-tribe_n_1574374.html?ref=topbar#>
  06/06/12 12:05 PM ET Associated Press [image: AP]

BRASILIA, Brazil -- For generations, the Awa lived far from the rest of
humanity, picking fruit, hunting pigs and monkeys and following the
seasons' rhythms in their patch of the lush Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

Then the rest of the world found the Awa. Loggers and ranchers came,
cutting into the tribe's ancestral lands in search of profits. So did a
rail line where trains shuttle tons of iron ore through the forest, from
mines in the heart of the Amazon to Atlantic Ocean ports, with much of it
headed for Chinese steel mills.

The threat to the Awa grew so grave that it caught the attention of the
British-based indigenous rights group Survival International, which
designated them "the world's most endangered tribe" and made their
preservation its top campaign priority this year.

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From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:54:33 2012
From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:54:33 -1000
Subject: 2nd Call for Proposals:  3rd International Conference on Language
 Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.145433.1000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


Aloha!

The 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), “Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,” will be held February 28-March 3, 2013, at the Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus.

By popular demand, the 3rd ICLDC will be a full day longer than the previous two conferences. The conference program will feature an integrated series of Master Class workshops. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai‘i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference (March 4-5).

This year’s conference theme, “Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,” intends to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of language documentation and the need to share methods for documenting the many aspects of human knowledge that language encodes. We aim to build on the strong momentum created by the 1st and 2nd ICLDCs to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich records that can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech communities. We hope you will join us.

For more information, visit our conference website:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2013/


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Topics

We especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme of the interdisciplinary nature of language documentation. Language encodes knowledge from many facets of life: kinship, science, taxonomy, material culture, spirituality, music, and others. We encourage presentations on documenting these topics through the lens of endangered languages.

We are also seeking abstracts on the science of documentation and revitalization. Documentation is usually portrayed as a means of collecting language data, and revitalization is generally seen primarily as a kind of applied work directly benefiting communities. However, each of those domains is a genuine area of research, and we welcome presentations that treat documentation and revitalization not merely as activities, but also as domains requiring theorization in their own right.

In addition to the topics above, we warmly welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited to:

Archiving matters
Community experiences of revitalization
Data management
Ethical issues
Language planning
Lexicography and reference grammar design
Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
Orthography design
Teaching/learning small languages
Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls
Topics in areal language documentation
Training in documentation methods – beyond the university
Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies 
 
Abstract submission

Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region discussed. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint (co-authored) proposal.

Abstracts are due by August 31, 2012, with notification of acceptance by October 1, 2012. 

We ask for abstracts of no more than 400 words for online publication so that conference participants will have a good idea of the content of your paper, and a 50-word summary for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic.

We will only be accepting proposal submissions for papers or posters. We will not be accepting any proposal submission for panel or colloquia presentations this year.  Please note that the Advisory Committee may ask that some abstracts submitted as conference talks be presented as posters instead.

Selected authors will be invited to submit their conference papers to the journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication.

To submit an online proposal, visit our Call for Proposals page:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2013/call.html

 

Scholarships

To help defray travel expenses to come and present at the conference, scholarships of up to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best abstracts by (i) students and/or (ii) members of an endangered language community who are actively working to document their heritage language and who are not employed by a college or university. If you are eligible and wish to be considered for a scholarship, please select the appropriate "Yes" button on the proposal submission form.


Presentation formats

Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of question time.

Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Poster presentations will run during the lunch breaks.



Questions?  Feel free to contact us at icldc at hawaii.edu


3rd ICLDC Organizing Committee






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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 04:05:39 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:05:39 -0700
Subject: Native American language advocate dies (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.210539.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Native American language advocate dies;
Tom Parsons spent years promoting teaching of Indian languages

Grant Scott-Goforth/The Times-Standard
Posted:   05/19/2012 02:35:42 AM PDT
US

Tom Parsons, who helped develop local Native American language programs as
the director of Humboldt State University's Community Development Center,
died last week at the age of 88 in Atlanta.

Tom Parsons' dedication to community development continues to have an
impact on the Indian Community Development Center and Indian language
studies on the North Coast.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun  8 19:22:23 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:22:23 -0700
Subject: Unesco works to preserve state=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=languages
 (fwd li nk)
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUN.2012.122223.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Unesco works to preserve state’s languages

by Conny Banji, Philip Wong, Jane Moh and Joanna Yap,
reporters at theborneopost.com.
Posted on June 9, 2012, Saturday

[inset: Not many of the Bidayuh and Kelabit speak their languages nowadays.
This is due mainly to interracial marriages. They either use Bahasa
Malaysia or English at home now. Datuk Fatimah Abdullah, Minister of
Welfare, Women and Family Development]

SIBU: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(Unesco) is currently working on two projects in the state to prevent the
Kelabit and Bidayuh languages from disappearing.

The projects under the Endangered Languages programme aim to assist and
protect dying native languages.

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http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/06/09/unesco-works-to-preserve-states-languages/#ixzz1xEOooXwW
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun  8 20:28:31 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:28:31 -0700
Subject: Open Source Digital Publishing
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUN.2012.132831.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi ILAT,

Take note of a open source digital publishing platform: Booktype.

http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/

It is a (free) program for creating ebooks and preparing them for
distribution.  This might prove useful for language programs seeking a way
maximize the manner of distribution of their linguistic/language
publications.  Maximum impact, no cost.

Phil
UofA
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From jieikobu at HOTMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 12 13:15:13 2012
From: jieikobu at HOTMAIL.COM (Derksen Jacob)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:15:13 +0000
Subject: "Teens sign up to learn dying language"
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.131513.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


I'd like to think the editors of the Victoria Times-Colonist could have come up with a better headline but at least the subject is getting some attention. 
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Teens+sign+learn+dying+language/6768070/story.html
 
  		 	   		  
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 17:47:46 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:47:46 -0700
Subject: Three Inuit among NAHO=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=last batch of
 aboriginal  role models (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.104746.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

NEWS: Around the Arctic June 11, 2012 - 10:00 am

Three Inuit among NAHO’s last batch of aboriginal role models
Jesse Apsaktaun, Dina Koonoo and David Dupuis are among the 2012 role models

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Hard worker, motivated, honest: that’s how the National Aboriginal Health
Organization describes the 2012 aboriginal role model, Jesse Apsaktaun, 28,
of Kugaaruk.

Born and raised in Kugaaruk, Apsaktaun graduated from the Nunavut Teacher
Education Program, and, according to a NAHO biography,  “has not let
anything hold him back.”

Apsaktaun, who now works as an adult educator at Nunavut Arctic College,
also finds time to sit on committees for various cultural activities, such
as teaching people how to build kayaks.

And Apsaktaun volunteers as a minor hockey coach, serves as chairman of the
youth committee and “takes his role as husband and father to heart,” NAHO
says.

A fluent speaker of Inuktitut, Apsaktaun is “a strong advocate for Inuit
languages and takes the time to teach those who want to learn,” working
closely with elders and youth.

Access full article below:
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674three_inuit_among_nahos_last_batch_of_aboriginal_role_models/
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From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:49:55 -0700
Subject: Language council seen as hope for Native culture (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.104955.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Language council seen as hope for Native culture

Posted: June 11, 2012 - 8:46am
By Pat Forgey
Morris News Service -- Alaska, Juneau Empire

A new Alaska Native Language Council has the potential to bring threatened
languages back from the brink of extinction, say experts in the field.

"Our hope is that we can really create living languages, and advocate for
the importance of the languages," said Lance Twitchell, an assistant
professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast.

Alaska's Native languages are in various states of decline, with only about
200 fluent Tlingit speakers left, while there are more than 10,000 speakers
of Central Yup'ik.

Access full article below:
http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-06-11/language-council-seen-as-hope-for-native-culture
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 17:52:49 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:52:49 -0700
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.105249.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to
languages than those that are wide.

Zoë Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they
came from a continent that was broader in an east–west direction than
north–south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns,
Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this
'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in
climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more
similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means
that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture
and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along
lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines
of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California
used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed
the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in
147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked
at the difference between Chile, which has a long north–south axis, and
Turkey, which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 18:04:03 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:04:03 -0700
Subject: Western Researchers Finally Appreciating Wisdom of Elders When It
 Comes to Mother Earth (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.110403.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Western Researchers Finally Appreciating Wisdom of Elders When It Comes to
Mother Earth

By Mary Annette Pember June 11, 2012
US

Indigenous Peoples have a deep and profound scientific understanding of
creation, of the duality and tension that holds the created world in place.
Mainstream science and academia can’t begin to understand and convey the
knowledge that Indigenous Peoples carry in their DNA. We all come into the
world with this knowledge, but Indigenous Peoples still carry the knowledge
in their blood memory.”

That’s according to Renee Gurneau, Red Lake Ojibwe, who spoke at the recent
Rights of Mother Earth: Restoring Indigenous Life Ways of Responsibility
and Respect conference at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence,
Kansas.

Increasingly, Western scientists and academics seem to be recognizing the
wisdom of interconnectedness and respect for life that has long been
expressed by Indigenous Peoples. The challenges of addressing climate
change are motivating mainstream scientists to look for solutions outside
of their traditional knowledge base. The following quote, for example, is
an apt summation of the essence of indigenous wisdom: “We have no greater
concern than the future of this planet and the life upon it.”

Read more:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/11/western-researchers-finally-appreciating-wisdom-of-elders-when-it-comes-to-mother-earth-117479
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 18:49:51 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:49:51 -0700
Subject: Yati Dictionary app
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.114951.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

ILAT,

fyi, I did not realize the The Yati Dictionary App (containing over 1300
words and phrases in Tlicho Dene language) is a "free" app.  Cool.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yati/id525154015?mt=8

Phil
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From saxon at UVIC.CA  Tue Jun 12 20:14:14 2012
From: saxon at UVIC.CA (Leslie Saxon)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:14:14 -0700
Subject: Yati Dictionary app
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RyUw__ssK+VrGh-02HDba13OJOUQ_NOBO8FKPJcSXx7=w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.131414.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Thanks for this, Phil. The development crew would be glad for comments, suggestions, problem reports to help with the next version. You can send comments to me at saxon at uvic.ca or to yati at uvic.ca.

Leslie Saxon
Linguistics
University of Victoria


On 12-06-12 11:49 AM, "Phillip E Cash Cash" <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU<mailto:cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>> wrote:

ILAT,

fyi, I did not realize the The Yati Dictionary App (containing over 1300 words and phrases in Tlicho Dene language) is a "free" app.  Cool.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yati/id525154015?mt=8

Phil


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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Tue Jun 12 21:24:17 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:24:17 -0400
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RzO=C9oAFaU-RrfcwoHmyQLozH4iH38TBiKrCm1PNZdLA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.172417.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

So...do you have an opinion on this and if so, I would appreciate reading
it....or anyone else...particularly indigenous people on the
list....probably worded wrong but not meant to be exclusive or
chauvinistic(not a gender statement)...
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  “in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper — 
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains:
repressive force.” SubCommander Marcos...
 

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: June-12-12 1:53 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)


How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to
languages than those that are wide.

Zoë Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they
came from a continent that was broader in an east–west direction than
north–south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns,
Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this
'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in
climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more
similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means
that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture
and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along
lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines
of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California
used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed
the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in
147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked at
the difference between Chile, which has a long north–south axis, and Turkey,
which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808


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From weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 12 23:17:57 2012
From: weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM (Phil Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:17:57 -0700
Subject: Language council seen as hope for Native culture (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RwLfC6bvzV_z9=eS8AOmrFg_uWb43oT8Ywa9zU_39O5kw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.161757.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Language council sounds awesome!

P.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Language council seen as hope for Native culture
>
> Posted: June 11, 2012 - 8:46am
> By Pat Forgey
> Morris News Service -- Alaska, Juneau Empire
>
> A new Alaska Native Language Council has the potential to bring threatened
> languages back from the brink of extinction, say experts in the field.
>
> "Our hope is that we can really create living languages, and advocate for
> the importance of the languages," said Lance Twitchell, an assistant
> professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast.
>
> Alaska's Native languages are in various states of decline, with only
> about 200 fluent Tlingit speakers left, while there are more than 10,000
> speakers of Central Yup'ik.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-06-11/language-council-seen-as-hope-for-native-culture
>
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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Wed Jun 13 09:23:59 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:23:59 +0100
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RzO=C9oAFaU-RrfcwoHmyQLozH4iH38TBiKrCm1PNZdLA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.102359.0100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Jared Diamond's "theory" amounts to nothing more complex that "AAA high schools will have stronger football teams than small schools." You can't compare Mongolia and Angola unless you control for population density. They found some "correlations," but are they statistically significant? What is the standard deviation? How about controlling for dictatorial regimes that squash minorities or governments that perpetuate myths of nationalist homogeneity? The more I learn about Mongolia, the more diversity (linguistic and cultural) I seem to find there, especially in the mountainous northern regions. All that is ignored in official stats.

How can Nature publish such drivel?

-Alex

On 12 Jun 2012, at 6:52 pm, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to languages than those that are wide.

Zoë Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they came from a continent that was broader in an east–west direction than north–south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this 'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in 147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked at the difference between Chile, which has a long north–south axis, and Turkey, which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808


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From Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA  Wed Jun 13 17:35:15 2012
From: Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA (Dawn McInnes)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:35:15 -0600
Subject: Full professorship
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.113515.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Leslie:
 
Congratulations on your full professorship!
 
Dawn

________________________________

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology on behalf of Leslie Saxon
Sent: Tue 12/06/2012 2:14 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Yati Dictionary app


Thanks for this, Phil. The development crew would be glad for comments, suggestions, problem reports to help with the next version. You can send comments to me at saxon at uvic.ca or to yati at uvic.ca.

Leslie Saxon
Linguistics
University of Victoria


On 12-06-12 11:49 AM, "Phillip E Cash Cash" <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU> wrote:

ILAT,

fyi, I did not realize the The Yati Dictionary App (containing over 1300 words and phrases in Tlicho Dene language) is a "free" app.  Cool.  
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yati/id525154015?mt=8

Phil



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From donaghy at HAWAII.EDU  Wed Jun 13 23:41:44 2012
From: donaghy at HAWAII.EDU (Keola Donaghy)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:41:44 -1000
Subject: Prison inmates to transcribe Hawaiian newspapers
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.134144.1000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) - A large effort to put 60,000 pages of historical Hawaiian newspapers online is getting volunteers from an unlikely source - Hawaii's prison system.

Organizers and prison officials are pitching the program as a way for incarcerated women to reconnect with Hawaii's rich history and culture - to more fully understand why they see the world the way they do.

Warden Mark Patterson of the Women's Community Correctional Center says most of the inmates there suffered some kind of traumatic event in their lives before committing the crime that got them to prison. He says transcribing the newspapers will help the women make sense of deep-seated anger and other emotions they may not fully understand.

About 30 inmates have signed on to help transcribe newspapers from 1834 to 1948.

http://www.khon2.com/news/local/story/kailua-newspapers-prison-inmates-transcribe/wUyMnM-z9k6UE-v65ioHng.cspx



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Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani            mailto:donaghy at hawaii.edu
University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www.keoladonaghy.com/

"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."  (Irish Gaelic saying)
A country without its language is a country without its soul.
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 14 06:28:44 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:28:44 -0700
Subject: The ears of the nation turn to Tasmania to save a language -
 introducing "Tassie black fella talk" (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.232844.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The ears of the nation turn to Tasmania to save a language - introducing
"Tassie black fella talk"

14/06/2012 , 8:41 AM by Damien Brown
AUS

The ears of the nation have unexpectedly turned to Tasmania in an effort to
save a language.

A Federal Government hearing has recently heard that many Aboriginal
languages are in danger of extinction with just 20 to 30 considered
''viable''.

Access full article below:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/tasmania/2012/06/the-ears-of-the-nation-turns-to-tasmania-to-save-a-language-introducing-tassie-black-fella-talk.html
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 14 06:31:05 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:31:05 -0700
Subject: Karri-borlbme kun-wok ~ Learning language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.233105.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Karri-borlbme kun-wok ~ Learning language

June 11, 2012 – 12:32 am, by wamut
AUS

Greg Dickson writes:

We’re very happy to spread the word about a great new initiative from
Western Arnhem Land that gives us all the chance to learn a bit of an
Aboriginal language: Bininj Gunwok*. Through the Bininj Gunwok Language
Project, you can now subscribe to an email list and receive regular bits of
vocab, grammatical info and more, in order to teach more people about
Bininj Gunwok – one of the nation’s strongest Indigenous languages spoken
by a few thousand people across Western Arnhem Land.

Access full blog article below:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2012/06/11/karri-borlbme-kun-wok-learning-language/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 14 20:50:45 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:50:45 -0700
Subject: B.C. Language Initiative (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUN.2012.135045.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 B.C. Language Initiative
*The B.C. Language Initiative:* supports projects to revitalize British
Columbia First Nations languages through documentation, immersion programs,
materials and curriculum development, traditional and cultural programming,
and community collaboration. First Nations communities and organizations
are eligible to submit proposals.

Deadline: *June 22,2012

*More info, applications forms, and guides available below:
http://www.fpcc.ca/language/Programs/BCLI.aspx


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 14 22:06:02 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:06:02 -0700
Subject: Is Cantonese an endangered language? (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUN.2012.150602.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Is Cantonese an endangered language?

By Michelle da Silva, June 14, 2012
CA

An article recently published in the China Post claimed that due to the
widespread use of Mandarin in Hong Kong over the last decade, Cantonese is
a dying language. Since Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain in
1997, more than 160 primary schools have switched over from teaching
students in Cantonese to Mandarin. According to the article, more parents
are speaking to their children in English and Mandarin, in hopes that it
will help their kids enter an international school. Also, the number of
visitors from Mainland China to Hong Kong has increased, and many
businesses have made it a priority that staff greet customers in Mandarin.

Access full article below:
http://www.straight.com/article-711606/vancouver/cantonese-endangered-language
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 15 06:33:38 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:33:38 -0700
Subject: Documenting Endangered Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUN.2012.233338.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 Documenting Endangered Languages
  Division of Preservation and Access

*Receipt Deadline September 15, 2012* *for Projects Beginning May 2013*
 Brief Summary

The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program is a partnership between
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered
human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of
the 6000-7000 currently used languages, this effort aims also to exploit
advances in information technology. Awards support fieldwork and other
activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered
languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples,
and databases. DEL funding is available in the form of one- to three-year
project grants as well as fellowships for six to twelve months. At least
half the available funding will be awarded to projects involving fieldwork.

Access full article below:

http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/documenting-endangered-languages
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 15 18:47:53 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:47:53 -0700
Subject: Vanishing Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.15.JUN.2012.114753.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Vanishing Languages

Published: July 2012
US

[image: Inline image 1]

Vanishing Voices

One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the
roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as
communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or
Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?

By Russ Rymer
Photograph by Lynn Johnson

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 16 00:38:36 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:38:36 -0700
Subject: Yakama tribe elder becomes U of O's oldest-ever graduate (fwd
 link)
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Yakama tribe elder becomes U of O's oldest-ever graduate

By KVAL News & KIMA News Published: Jun 15, 2012 at 2:09 PM PDT
US

[image: Inline image 1]
Virginia Beavert

EUGENE, Ore. - The University of Oregon will honor the school's oldest-ever
graduate during commencement ceremonies Monday.

Virginia Beavert, 90, an elder in Washington’s Yakama tribe, will receive
her doctorate in linguistics before defending her dissertation next month.

Beavert speaks six native languages, has written a Yakama Sahaptin
dictionary, and is currently working on a second edition.

Access full article below:
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From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 16 05:25:59 2012
From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike))
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:25:59 +0000
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.052559.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Well, if you take out all sorts of things like mountains, oceans, and other obstacles to population movement,
the differences between ecological zones generally makes it easier to move laterally than vertically. There
is clear evidence in the English invasion-settlement of North America, settlers tended to move westward
into ecologically compatible zones -- you can't plant cotton in North Dakota, nor grow wheat very successfully
in Alabama. But the Romans moved from lower Italy to northern Britain, the Egyptians consolidated the
length of the Nile, and then went north as far as Syria (but not east or west), the Austronesians (depending
on whose story you accept), may have spread from Taiwan all the way south to Indonesia before turning
eastward, and the Uto-Aztecans spread in one direction as far south as Guatemala and as far north as Utah.
But Algonkians covered the whole breadth of Canada and even into northern California, as well as down
the east coast to Virginia. Simplistic ideas of taking a political boundary (usually a late one) and using that
as a boundary for measuring diversity, are just that -- ignorantly simplistic, no matter how sophisticated the
mathematic mumbo-jumbo is.

    Rudy Troike
    University of Arizona

ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
________________________________
From: Rolland Nadjiwon [mikinakn at SHAW.CA]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)

So...do you have an opinion on this and if so, I would appreciate reading it....or anyone else...particularly indigenous people on the list....probably worded wrong but not meant to be exclusive or chauvinistic(not a gender statement)...

wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  “in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper —
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains: repressive force.” SubCommander Marcos...


________________________________
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: June-12-12 1:53 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)

How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to languages than those that are wide.

Zoë Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they came from a continent that was broader in an east–west direction than north–south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this 'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in 147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked at the difference between Chile, which has a long north–south axis, and Turkey, which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 16 07:46:47 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:46:47 -0700
Subject: Endangered Aramaic Language Taught in Two Villages,
 Two Sides of War (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.004647.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

June 14, 2012

Endangered Aramaic Language Taught in Two Villages, Two Sides of War

The issue of education in Israel and the Palestinian territories is usually
fraught with settlement building, government oppression, and conflict
stricken schoolchildren. Ancient languages seem all but irrelevant in this
political hot zone, where Arabic and Hebrew are pitted against each other
in a media war of their representative religions. Nevertheless, Aramaic has
come to attention because the endangered language is receiving an
educational rebirth in two of the region’s villages.

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From hardman at UFL.EDU  Sat Jun 16 13:47:49 2012
From: hardman at UFL.EDU (Dr. MJ Hardman)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:47:49 -0400
Subject: Yakama tribe elder becomes U of O's oldest-ever graduate (fwd
 link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RzzakqrHmBZ-C-ADVMbzJpe6Sa4vpjOWuq2uQuH2P07HA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.094749.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Congratulations!  What marvelous news.  May there yet be many seasons in her
path.  MJ

On 6/15/12 8:38 PM, "Phillip E Cash Cash" <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
wrote:

> Yakama tribe elder becomes U of O's oldest-ever graduate
> 
> By KVAL News & KIMA News Published: Jun 15, 2012 at 2:09 PM PDT
> US
> 
> 
> Virginia Beavert
> 
> EUGENE, Ore. - The University of Oregon will honor the school's oldest-ever
> graduate during commencement ceremonies Monday.
> 
> Virginia Beavert, 90, an elder in Washington¹s Yakama tribe, will receive her
> doctorate in linguistics before defending her dissertation next month.
> 
> Beavert speaks six native languages, has written a Yakama Sahaptin dictionary,
> and is currently working on a second edition.
> 
> Access full article below:
> http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/Yakama-tribe-elder-becomes-U-of-Os-oldest-eve
> r-graduate-159240715.html
> 

Dr. MJ Hardman
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/ 

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 16 19:42:45 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:42:45 -0700
Subject: Aleut elder Nicolai Galaktionoff helped keep Unangan language,
 culture vital (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.124245.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Aleut elder Nicolai Galaktionoff helped keep Unangan language, culture vital
 Jillian Rogers | The Dutch Harbor Fisherman | Jun 15, 2012
US

 <http://www.alaskadispatch.com/sites/default/files/images/topic/rural-alaska/galaktionoff-nicolai-facing-beach.jpg>


When Nicolai Galaktionoff passed away last month, a piece of Alaska left
with him.

Galaktionoff, 87, died in Unalaska on May 21, and though he’ll be
remembered for many great accomplishments, perhaps he was most known for
his passionate commitment to keeping his heritage alive through language
and subsistence living.

“He taught the language to the younger generation, including myself,” said
Galaktionoff’s eldest son, Joe. “He taught many about our culture.”

Access full article below:

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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Sun Jun 17 03:03:04 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:03:04 -0400
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <4E2A23DC35FEA141BD0A563D12E2814CF38524@SAWYERISLAND.catnet.arizona.edu>
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.230304.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Thanks Rudy...with a different approach to the supposed information, I
arrived at the same conclusions you make with your final statement. The
checkerboard of juridical boundaries has over whelmed the pre-colonial
patterns of movement and relationships of peoples and cultures, at least, in
the Americas. Most of the old stories tell of people moving north to south
and vice versa. Groups of people would go South travelling for up to three
years or so and return with parrot feathers and cocoa laves for medicine.
Also, the major migrations of birds, buffalo, butterflies and etc. were and
still are North South movements.The people moved North and South following
these migrations which were sustenance. The East West movement is probably
postcolonial and probably as a direct result of the fur trades and the
European passionate indulgence in a search for a passage to the wealth of
the Orient.
Forth years ago a Cherokee and Anthropologist friend of mine would tease me
that civilization grew North out of Mexico and colonization has not changed
that. He would tell me to not be surprised when some morning I wake up and
there is a Taco Bell being built up across the street. We would laugh about
this but I have watches how the adopted language of Spanish/Mexican has
moved, in a 40 year period, across the American/Canadian borders into
Canada. He has long since passed and our daughter married a Spanish American
youth from Tucson and my two eldest Grandchildren are Spanish American,
Apache, Potowatomi, Odawa and Ojibwa...there is also some European but that
certainly keeps getting watered down. And now, my Great Granddaughter, 9
months, is Spanish American, Apache, Cree, Odawa, Potowatomi and Ojibwa.
Again there is a watered down mitochondrial connection to some
Europeans...there may be a bit of French or English or maybe Scottish. I am
often complimented by having Spanish/Mexican people assuming I am Mexican
and speaking to me in Spanish. That I cannot, usually embarrasses both of
us....so, before I get off topic, I think there is as much or even more
practical evidence to indicate the greater movement on a North South axis.
Numbers can be skewed by any bookie science but the major North South
highways being built on old Indian trails or along migration paths of
buffalo and other wildlife is much more a part of the story of the earth
itself. 
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  “in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper — 
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains:
repressive force.” SubCommander Marcos...
 

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike)
Sent: June-16-12 1:26 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)


Well, if you take out all sorts of things like mountains, oceans, and other
obstacles to population movement, 
the differences between ecological zones generally makes it easier to move
laterally than vertically. There 
is clear evidence in the English invasion-settlement of North America,
settlers tended to move westward 
into ecologically compatible zones -- you can't plant cotton in North
Dakota, nor grow wheat very successfully 
in Alabama. But the Romans moved from lower Italy to northern Britain, the
Egyptians consolidated the 
length of the Nile, and then went north as far as Syria (but not east or
west), the Austronesians (depending 
on whose story you accept), may have spread from Taiwan all the way south to
Indonesia before turning 
eastward, and the Uto-Aztecans spread in one direction as far south as
Guatemala and as far north as Utah. 
But Algonkians covered the whole breadth of Canada and even into northern
California, as well as down 
the east coast to Virginia. Simplistic ideas of taking a political boundary
(usually a late one) and using that 
as a boundary for measuring diversity, are just that -- ignorantly
simplistic, no matter how sophisticated the 
mathematic mumbo-jumbo is. 

    Rudy Troike
    University of Arizona

ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
  _____  

From: Rolland Nadjiwon [mikinakn at SHAW.CA]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)


So...do you have an opinion on this and if so, I would appreciate reading
it....or anyone else...particularly indigenous people on the
list....probably worded wrong but not meant to be exclusive or
chauvinistic(not a gender statement)...
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  “in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper — 
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains:
repressive force.” SubCommander Marcos...
 

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: June-12-12 1:53 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)


How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to
languages than those that are wide.

Zoë Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they
came from a continent that was broader in an east–west direction than
north–south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns,
Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this
'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in
climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more
similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means
that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture
and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along
lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines
of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California
used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed
the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in
147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked at
the difference between Chile, which has a long north–south axis, and Turkey,
which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 02:49:28 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:49:28 -0700
Subject: listserv migration and ILAT...
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.194928.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings ILAT!

First a warm welcome to all the new subscribers: welcome!

Second, ILAT as a "listserv" within the Listserv framework (i.e. mailing
lists) is being phased out at the University of Arizona.  As all of you
well know, ILAT is a part of the UofA listserv system.  So we will
(voluntarily) plan to migrate to a new mailing list system starting in
July.  This email is simply an advance notice to inform you of this pending
migration.  We have several options we are exploring at the moment.  The
first and possibly the best options is:

ilat at endangeredlanguages.com

This is presently in the works and it looks quite promising.  We are also
examining the recommendations of the UofA listserv for additional options.
In any case, we will continue to retain the ILAT (Indigenous Languages and
Technology) identity.  The advantages of using a more up-to-date system is
numerous but the greatest need for ILAT is to have a searchable archive.
Right now, searching ILAT is a command-based search query which is fairly
"old school" and cumbersome.

Naturally, you will hear more of this (and in greater detail) in the coming
months!  But in the mean time continue to enjoy the fascinating discussions
here on ILAT.  Btw, just a nice little tidbit of trivia, ILAT turns 10 yrs
old in October!

Phil Cash Cash (Cayuse/Nez Perce)
ILAT List Manager
University of Arizona
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:20:02 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:20:02 -0700
Subject: Parkes Wiradjuri group to feature in ABC documentary (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.202002.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Parkes Wiradjuri group to feature in ABC documentary

18 Jun, 2012 09:28 AM
AUS

Parkes students are to be featured in an ABC documentary based on the local
indigenous language of the Wiradjuri.

Members of the Parkes Wiradjuri Languages Group welcomed Suzi Taylor from
ABC Open Albury, and Faith Baisden from the Eastern States Aboriginal
languages group, to a special sitting held at the Parkes Public School.

Suzy and Faith were in Parkes to film a documentary and promotional video,
highlighting the exceptional work of groups such as the local Parkes
Wiradjuri team in bringing Aboriginal languages to life within their
communities.

Access full article below:
http://www.parkeschampionpost.com.au/news/local/news/general/parkes-wiradjuri-group-to-feature-in-abc-documentary/2593512.aspx
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:23:24 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:23:24 -0700
Subject: FirstVoices Chat app for First Nations languages hits the iPhone
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.202324.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

FirstVoices Chat app for First Nations languages hits the iPhone

by Stephen Hui on June 18, 2012 at 4:59 PM

http://www.straight.com/article-713211/vancouver/firstvoices-chat-app-first-nations-languages-hits-iphone

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:24:48 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:24:48 -0700
Subject: Te reo leads the way (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.202448.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Te reo leads the way

CHARLES ANDERSON
Last updated 05:00 17/06/2012
NZ

Efforts to promote te reo Maori are seen as the international benchmark for
indigenous language revival, according to a visiting expert.

While the Maori Language Commission laments the position te reo is in,
Professor Kenneth Rehg said in Hawaii his linguistics students looked to
the Maori effort for inspiration.

"The United States looks to Hawaii, and Hawaii looks to New Zealand. Maori
revitalisation has set the model. It has gathered attention around the
world."

Rehg was recently in New Zealand to speak about the worldwide death of
languages. He said as a linguist there was no more noble cause than trying
to save them.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:27:12 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:27:12 -0700
Subject: With Casino Revenues, Tribes Push to Preserve Languages,
 and Cultures (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.202712.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

With Casino Revenues, Tribes Push to Preserve Languages, and Cultures

By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: June 16, 2012 29 Comments

COARSEGOLD, Calif. — Inside a classroom of some 20 adults and children
studying the language of their tribe, a university linguist pointed out
that Chukchansi has no “r” sound and that two consonants never follow each
other. The comments seemed to stir forgotten childhood memories in Holly
Wyatt, 69, the only fluent speaker present, who was serving as a living
reference book.

“My mother used to call Richard ‘Lichad,’ ” Ms. Wyatt blurted out,
referring to a relative. “It just popped into my head.”

Using revenues from their casino here in the Sierra Nevada foothills, the
Chukchansi Indians recently pledged $1 million over five years to
California State University, Fresno, to help preserve their unwritten
language. Linguists from the university will create a dictionary, assemble
texts and help teach the language at weekly courses like the one on a
recent evening.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:31:21 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:31:21 -0700
Subject: FirstVoices Chat (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.203121.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

FirstVoices Chat
By First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council

Description

FirstVoices Chat is a multilingual texting app with keypads serving over
100 Indigenous languages. The app was developed in response to First Nation
youth who want to communicate via social media in their own languages. Most
Indigenous writing systems use unique characters previously unavailable in
mobile technologies.

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Go to iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/firstvoices-chat/id533685251
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From weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 19 03:33:57 2012
From: weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM (Phil Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:33:57 -0700
Subject: FirstVoices Chat (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RypX_=+ncqNt1awDiY_FCXWvQO2+Ra--MU3RG_wYXcTBA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.203357.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

ILAT,

I would like to kindly request that a ILAT "user" post a mini-review, first
impressions of this app!  Thnx.

Phil



On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> FirstVoices Chat
> By First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council
>
> Description
>
> FirstVoices Chat is a multilingual texting app with keypads serving over
> 100 Indigenous languages. The app was developed in response to First Nation
> youth who want to communicate via social media in their own languages. Most
> Indigenous writing systems use unique characters previously unavailable in
> mobile technologies.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
> Go to iTunes:
>
> http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/firstvoices-chat/id533685251
>
>
>
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From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:58:34 -0700
Subject: The Surui Cultural Map (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.205834.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The Surui Cultural
Map<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/surui-cultural-map.html>
 June 18, 2012 at 10:25 AM
US
   *This week we're at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development <http://www.uncsd2012.org/>. We**'re sharing a series of posts
about our activities at the conference **on the Green
Blog<http://googlegreenblog.blogspot.com/>;
in this cross-post we've gone into more detail about one announcement
taking place there. -Ed.*

This week at the Rio+20 conference, the Surui tribe of the Brazilian
Amazon<http://www.paiter.org/>are launching their Surui Cultural Map
on Google Earth. This represents the
culmination of a unique five-year collaboration between the Surui people
and Google, which began in June 2007 when Chief Almir Surui first visited
Google<http://google-latlong.blogspot.com.br/2007/06/trading-bow-and-arrow-for-laptop.html>and
proposed a partnership. The story of that visit, and the remarkable
project that followed, are told in a new short documentary also launching
here at Rio+20:* “Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops: Carbon and Culture.”


*Access full article below:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jun 20 13:17:41 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:17:41 -0500
Subject: teaching code
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.081741.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings,

Just a quick note for those that teach coding.  Take a look at Mozilla's
Thimble!

https://thimble.webmaker.org/en-US/

:)

Phil
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jun 20 13:21:42 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:21:42 -0500
Subject: First Nations youth bring vitality to languages: Regional Health
 Survey (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.082142.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

June 19, 2012 5:05 PM

First Nations youth bring vitality to languages: Regional Health Survey

OTTAWA, June 19, 2012 /CNW/ - According to the CBC, "Statistics Canada says
only three aboriginal languages in Canada — Cree, Ojibwa and Inuktitut —
remain viable." That may be so, but apparently not if First Nations youth
on-reserves and in northern communities right across Canada have anything
to say about it.

According to the latest national report of the First Nations Regional
Health Survey (RHS), 86% of youth (12 to 17 years old) living in nearly
every First Nation and northern community felt that learning their own
Indigenous language was "very important" or "somewhat important."

In fact, more than half (56.3%) of First Nations youth across Canada
reported speaking or understanding their own languages.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jun 20 13:25:39 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:25:39 -0500
Subject: Traditionalists lambast undermining of Xhosa language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.082539.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Eastern Cape, Africa
Jun 19 2012 4:47PM

Traditionalists lambast undermining of Xhosa language

Sithandiwe Velaphi

A traditionalist, Loyiso Nqevu, says indigenous languages are valuable
resources that must be maintained and passed from generation to generation.

Other traditionalists highlighted the need to lambast vernacular radio
stations for undermining the Xhosa language and placing no value on it.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jun 20 13:29:26 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:29:26 -0500
Subject: Indigenous Peoples Global Conference on RIO+20 and Mother Earth
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.082926.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON RIO+20 AND MOTHER EARTH”
Posted by: joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 02:21
AM 71 Reads

“We, the Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth assembled at the site of
Kari-Oka I, sacred Kari-Oka Púku, Rio de Janeiro to participate in the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20, thank the
Indigenous Peoples of Brazil for welcoming us to their territories. We
reaffirm our responsibility to speak for the protection and enhancement of
the well-being of Mother Earth, nature and future generations of our
Indigenous Peoples and all humanity and life. We recognize the significance
of this second convening of Indigenous Peoples of the world and reaffirm
the historic 1992 meeting of the Kari-Oca I, where Indigenous Peoples
issued The Kari-Oca Declaration and the Indigenous Peoples Earth Charter.
The Kari-Oca conference, and the mobilization of Indigenous Peoples around
the first UN Earth Summit, marked a big step forward for an international
movement for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and the important role that
Indigenous Peoples play in conservation and sustainable development. We
also reaffirm the Manaus Declaration on the convening of Kari-Oca 2 as the
international gathering of Indigenous Peoples for Rio+20.

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From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun 20 21:01:54 2012
From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:01:54 -0700
Subject: PBS New Hour tonight - -June 21 - Ft. Mojave Language
 Revitalization
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.140154.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Please tune into see the PBS news hour tonight -- Natalie Diaz and the
whole Ft Mojave language program are featured...

Susan

-- 
**********************************************************************************************
*Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
*
Research Coordinator,
CERCLL,  Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry
University of Arizona
Fax: (520) 626-3313
Websites:
CERCLL: cercll.arizona.edu
Confluence Center:  www.confluencecenter.arizona.edu
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 13:58:04 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:58:04 -0500
Subject: Google sets out to save the dying languages of the world (fwd
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Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.085804.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google sets out to save the dying languages of the world

Matt Hartley  Jun 21, 2012 – 2:23 AM ET | Last Updated: Jun 21, 2012 2:25
AM ET
CA

For generations, the language of Tseshaht Nuu-chah-nulth has been spoken by
the Hupacasath and Tseshaht First Nations of Vancouver Island. But today,
there are believed to be only five people alive who can speak it fluently.
Indeed, it is one of dozens of endangered languages and dialects spoken by
the indigenous people of North America that are in danger of disappearing.

Globally, nearly half of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages are believed
to be at risk of disappearing over the next century as cultural norms shift
and younger generations turn away from the languages of their elders.

Now, thanks to a new project from Google.org — the philanthropic wing of
Silicon Valley technology giant Google Inc. — scholars and educators from
around the world are hoping to come together and harness the power of the
Internet to collect and share data on endangered languages in an effort to
preserve and promote dying tongues.

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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/21/google-sets-out-to-save-the-dying-languages-of-the-world/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:00:29 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:00:29 -0500
Subject: Google cataloging endangered languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090029.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google cataloging endangered languages

OMAR EL AKKAD - TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jun. 21 2012, 12:00 AM EDT

Google is attempting to build the world’s most comprehensive resource on
the thousands of spoken and written languages currently at risk of
extinction.

The search engine announced on Thursday the launch of the Endangered
Languages Project, a website that allows users to archive audio, video and
written information about the world’s rarest languages and dialects. The
project could prove a boon to cultural preservation in Canada, where dozens
of aboriginal languages are at risk of fading away.

The site already has an archive of information about more than 3,000
languages, or nearly half the number believed to be endangered around the
world. The list ranges from the Harsusi language, spoken by about 700
people in Oman, to the Assiniboine language, spoken natively by fewer than
150 people in parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:01:59 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:01:59 -0500
Subject: iPhone app allows First Nations speakers to chat in their native
 tongue (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090159.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

iPhone app allows First Nations speakers to chat in their native tongue

BY JAMES KELLER, THE CANADIAN PRESS JUNE 20, 2012

VANCOUVER - Four decades ago, Pena Elliott's grandfather sat down with a
typewriter and created the written form of the native language spoken in
his First Nations community on Vancouver Island.

The standard 26-letter Roman alphabet couldn't account for all of the
intricate sounds of the language, so he created new characters by
overlapping letters and punctuation.

For example, he typed the letter T, hit the backspace and then placed
hyphen overtop. The resulting character sounds similar to "th."

"As soon as the alphabet was created, we were able to teach in schools,"
says Elliott, a member of the Tsartlip First Nation, one of the bands in
the Saanich First Nation north of Victoria.



Read more:
http://www.theprovince.com/life/iPhone+allows+First+Nations+speakers+chat+their+native+tongue/6814732/story.html#ixzz1yR7B5JKw
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:04:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:04:10 -0500
Subject: Facing History and Ourselves creates a new educational resource
 on Canadian Aboriginal languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090410.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

June 21, 2012 8:00 AM - General - Books - Education - Publishing
CA

Facing History and Ourselves creates a new educational resource on Canadian
Aboriginal languages

TORONTO, June 21, 2012 /CNW/ - Facing History and Ourselves is creating an
educational resource for teachers and students that explores the effects of
lost and endangered languages on aboriginal identity, culture, and
community. This guide will help young people understand the impact of
individual choices in building an inclusive society and empower them to be
active, ethical citizens in their schools and communities.

The resource, which will be developed over the next three years, will weave
together a series of readings, including primary sources, testimonies,
interviews, literary excerpts, essays, articles, photographs, paintings,
and other media. A research and review team including aboriginal scholars
will help shape the themes and messages and review chapters for accuracy
and context. The goal of the guide is to increase an understanding of
history, heighten awareness of Canadian aboriginal languages, and provide a
framework for thoughtful conversations about identity and language.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:09:23 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:09:23 -0500
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090923.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Endangered languages
A project by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity

About this project

The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access,
and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to
share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen
languages under threat.

http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:34:44 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:34:44 -0500
Subject: Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.093444.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages

By Chris Taylor, Mashable
updated 10:15 AM EDT, Thu June 21, 2012

(CNN) -- Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in
Aragonese? How about Navajo, or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just
discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India?

No, you probably wouldn't, not in that moment. But humanity would be.
Science, art and culture would be. If, as the phrase goes, another language
equals another soul, then some 3,054 souls -- 50% of the world's total
languages -- are set to die out by 2100.

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:44:28 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:44:28 -0500
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project: Supporting language
 preservation through technology and collaboration (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.094428.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The Endangered Languages Project: Supporting language preservation through
technology and collaboration<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/blogspot/MKuf/%7E3/FpitgyejoGw/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html>
from The Official Google
Blog<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleblog.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml?hl=en&at=N2uOWR6WpU-QAZAqNvKPOg>
by
A Googler

The Miami-Illinois language
<http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1924>was considered by some
to be extinct. Once spoken by Native American
communities throughout what’s now the American Midwest, its last fluent
speakers died in the 1960s. Decades later, Daryl Baldwin, a citizen of the
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, began teaching himself the language from
historical manuscripts and now works with the Miami University in Ohio to
continue the work of revitalizing the language<http://www.myaamiaproject.com/>,
publishing stories, audio files and other educational materials. Miami
children are once again learning the language and—even more
inspiring—teaching it to each other.

Access full blog post below:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html#!/2012/06/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html
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From Jimrem at AOL.COM  Thu Jun 21 14:53:38 2012
From: Jimrem at AOL.COM (Jimrem at AOL.COM)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:53:38 -0400
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.105338.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I have tried to go to the website given below, but for some reason when I  
get on it I get a pop-up message that says I need to use a newer browser. 
I'm  using Internet Explorer 9 and I'm not aware of anything newer. Has anyone 
else  had the same problem?

Here is the message I get when I try to access the  website:
 
 
 
The browser version you are using is too old and not supported by this  site
You will need a newer version of your browser to access the Endangered  
Languages project


 
The  Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access, 
and  share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to 
share  advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen  
languages under threat.

_http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/_ (http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/) 
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From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun 21 15:09:48 2012
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:09:48 -0500
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <1ebaf.a326a58.3d148f71@aol.com>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.100948.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

It worked fine for me in Firefox.
Claire

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:53 AM, <Jimrem at aol.com> wrote:

> **
> I have tried to go to the website given below, but for some reason when I
> get on it I get a pop-up message that says I need to use a newer browser.
> I'm using Internet Explorer 9 and I'm not aware of anything newer. Has
> anyone else had the same problem?
>
> Here is the message I get when I try to access the website:
>
>  The browser version you are using is too old and not supported by this
> site You will need a newer version of your browser to access the
> Endangered Languages project
>
> The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access,
> and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to
> share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen
> languages under threat.
>
> http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
>
>
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 15:19:21 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:19:21 -0500
Subject: B.C. first nations aim to preserve dying languages with Google's
 help (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.101921.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

B.C. first nations aim to preserve dying languages with Google's help

BY TIFFANY CRAWFORD, VANCOUVER SUN JUNE 21, 2012 8:08 AM
CA

First nations in B.C. will mark National Aboriginal Day today by launching
a new website in partnership with Google aimed at preserving indigenous
languages.

The Google Endangered Languages Project website was created by a committee
of language experts and Google staff, according to the First Peoples'
Cultural Council, which chairs the committee and will oversee the project.

The website www.endangeredlanguages.com, which is set to launch today at 9
a.m. PT, will invite language experts from around the world to post videos,
audio clips, books and other publications.



Read more:
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/first+nations+preserve+dying+languages+with+Google+help/6818639/story.html#ixzz1yRQbV5fN
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 15:36:33 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:36:33 -0500
Subject: N.W.T. community to offer kindergarten in Tlicho language (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.103633.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 N.W.T. community to offer kindergarten in Tlicho language
First time program is available in 20 years CBC
News<http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html> Posted:
Jun 20, 2012 2:10 PM CT Last Updated: Jun 20, 2012 3:04 PM CT
****<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/06/20/north-tlicho-language-kindergarten.html#socialcomments>
 [image: Mary Adele Mackenzie is going to enrol her child in the new Tlicho
Yati kindergarten. She said she wishes the program had been available five
years ago as well so that her 10-year-old could have enrolled.] *
Mary Adele Mackenzie is going to enrol her child in the new Tlicho Yati
kindergarten. She said she wishes the program had been available five years
ago as well so that her 10-year-old could have enrolled. (CBC)*

This fall, kindergarten classes in Behchoko, N.W.T., will be offered
entirely in the Tlicho language.

This is the first time parents will be able to choose whether to enroll
their children in an English or Tlicho immersion class.

Rita Mueller is the CEO of the Tlicho Community Services Agency.

“The advantage for children is to be really grounded in knowing where they
come from and being able to learn the language so they can speak to elders
and their grandparents and aunties and uncles whose first language has
always been Tlicho,” she said.

Access full article below:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/06/20/north-tlicho-language-kindergarten.html


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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Thu Jun 21 15:37:20 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:37:20 +0100
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <1ebaf.a326a58.3d148f71@aol.com>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.163720.0100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I recommend you use any browser BUT Internet Explorer--Firefox, Chrome, Mozilla, Safari, Opera. All free!

best wishes,
Alex

On 21 Jun 2012, at 3:53 pm, <Jimrem at AOL.COM<mailto:Jimrem at AOL.COM>> wrote:

I have tried to go to the website given below, but for some reason when I get on it I get a pop-up message that says I need to use a newer browser. I'm using Internet Explorer 9 and I'm not aware of anything newer. Has anyone else had the same problem?

Here is the message I get when I try to access the website:

The browser version you are using is too old and not supported by this site
You will need a newer version of your browser to access the Endangered Languages project
The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages under threat.

http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/


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From wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun 21 15:41:39 2012
From: wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM (Wayne Leman)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:41:39 -0700
Subject: Google fights to save endangered languages
In-Reply-To: <1ebaf.a326a58.3d148f71@aol.com>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.084139.0700.WLEMAN1949@GMAIL.COM>

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 
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From wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun 21 15:43:05 2012
From: wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM (Wayne Leman)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:43:05 -0700
Subject: Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86Rxk2pi0LzKgri97EwbZkBXv91Xjm1oL4VLQr7KbJzSikQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Sorry for duplicating this message.
Wayne

From: Phillip E Cash Cash 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:34 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
Subject: [ILAT] Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages (fwd link)

Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages
    
By Chris Taylor, Mashable
updated 10:15 AM EDT, Thu June 21, 2012

(CNN) -- Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in Aragonese? How about Navajo, or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India?

No, you probably wouldn't, not in that moment. But humanity would be. Science, art and culture would be. If, as the phrase goes, another language equals another soul, then some 3,054 souls -- 50% of the world's total languages -- are set to die out by 2100.

Access full article below:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable/
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From arcresours at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun 21 16:04:02 2012
From: arcresours at GMAIL.COM (Sandra Gaskell)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:04:02 -0700
Subject: Google fights to save endangered languages
In-Reply-To: <9672915D46E941099A80C657C0B47496@wlemanVAIO>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090402.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

mine worked
we are part of that tribal google earth out here

we used language mapping of Calif as a basis

this willbe reallycool to have an interface betweeninguistics and archaeology
thanks for posting

Sent from my iPhone
Sandra Gaskell

On Jun 21, 2012, at 8:41 AM, Wayne Leman <wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:14:22 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:14:22 -0500
Subject: Google partners with UH Manoa linguists on endangered languages
 project (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.091422.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google partners with UH Manoa linguists on endangered languages project

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Jun. 20, 2012

The Endangered Languages Project, a website developed by Google and backed
by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, launched today at
www.endangeredlanguages.com. A central feature of the website is the
Catalogue of Endangered Languages compiled by linguists at the University
of Hawaiʿi at Mānoa and the LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan
University. The website is sponsored by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.

“The world’s languages are in crisis, but there is no comprehensive,
up-to-date source of information on the endangered languages of the world,”
said Lyle Campbell, director of the UH Mānoa Catalogue of Endangered
Languages project and a professor of Linguistics in the College of
Languages, Linguistics and Literature. “So the Catalogue is needed to
support documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, to inform
the public and scholars, to aid members of groups whose languages are in
peril, and to call attention to the languages most critically in need of
conservation.”

Access full article below:
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=5162
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:20:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:20:10 -0500
Subject: Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.092010.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages

BY JACK KNOX, TIMES COLONIST JUNE 22, 2012 6:19 AM
Victoria, CAN

A few years ago, up in Alert Bay, a woman taught me a phrase of Kwak'wala
with which to impress my wife.

So, when Dr. Romance here got home, he decided to try it out. "Qwallayuw,"
I told my beloved. "It's a term of endearment, means, 'You're my reason for
being.'"

"Whatever," she replied. Perhaps it lost something in translation.

Languages are nuanced that way, which is what makes it so sad when one
disappears. It's like closing the curtains on a window offering a different
view of the world.



Read more:
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:24:20 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:24:20 -0500
Subject: Bible translators race to preserve cultures, histories (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.092420.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Bible translators race to preserve cultures, histories

Mission Network News - 6/21/2012

Australia (WYC/MNN) ― Every once in a while you hear about the rush to
preserve a dying language. It can seem like a lot of effort for little
pay-off when that language is only spoken by a few hundred people,
especially when you have so many thousands of languages that seem similar.

What's at stake if a language dies? Take a moment to consider what it is
beyond a means of communication. It's a unique storehouse not just of
words, but also of cultural identity.

Access full article below:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Missions/Default.aspx?id=1619454
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:39:16 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:39:16 -0500
Subject: news cycle...
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.093916.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings folks,

The news of Google's recent launch of the Endangered Languages Project made
a rush of headlines yesterday.  All quite exciting (since I search the news
daily).  I'm sure we will see more of the same in the coming month.  Keep
an eye out for original journalistic articles as these seem to take a
uniquely local perspective containing new information.  For example, in
today's headline, we saw:

Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic

This article was good because it "localized" the news of Google's ELP
launch during"...(a big pancake breakfast) at the offices of the First
Peoples' Cultural Council on the Tsartlip reserve" in Victoria, Canada.  :P

l8ter,
Phil
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From huangc20 at UFL.EDU  Fri Jun 22 15:15:18 2012
From: huangc20 at UFL.EDU (Huang,Chun)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:15:18 -0400
Subject: news cycle...
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RzMdcbvv-qd0K+7HnW7+cmJwF+Ar_506KMJ5C0ormRDMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.111518.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

  

Thanks, Phil, 

definitely love to see more of the localized news!


Jimmy 

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:39:16 -0500, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:


> Greetings folks,
> 
> The news of Google's recent launch of the
Endangered Languages Project made a rush of headlines yesterday. All
quite exciting (since I search the news daily). I'm sure we will see
more of the same in the coming month. Keep an eye out for original
journalistic articles as these seem to take a uniquely local perspective
containing new information. For example, in today's headline, we saw:
>

> Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages
>
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic
[1]
> 
> This article was good because it "localized" the news of
Google's ELP launch during"...(a big pancake breakfast) at the offices
of the First Peoples' Cultural Council on the Tsartlip reserve" in
Victoria, Canada. :P
> 
> l8ter,
> Phil

  

Links:
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[1]
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 01:14:49 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:14:49 -0500
Subject: New Google site aims to save endangered languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.201449.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

New Google site aims to save endangered languages

By Kazi Stastna, CBC News Posted: Jun 22, 2012 2:27 PM ET

Google has launched a new website this week aimed at helping preserve the
more than 3,000 languages of the world that are at risk of extinction.

The goal of the Endangered Languages Project is to compile the most
up-to-date and comprehensive information about endangered languages and
share the latest research about those languages and efforts to preserve
them.

About half of the world's estimated 7,000 languages are at risk of
disappearing in the next 100 years, Google said in a blog post earlier this
week announcing the launch of the project.

"We have so many languages which are in danger of dying, and though there
has been work done by linguists to document these languages, there are
nowhere near enough linguists to do that," said Anthony Aristar, professor
of linguistics and co-director of the Institute for Language Information
and Technology at Eastern Michigan University, which helped create the site.

"It's not just a matter of documenting the languages, it's also a matter of
revitalizing them if we possibly can."

Access full article below:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/22/tech-google-endangered-languages.html
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 15:22:55 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:22:55 -0500
Subject: Google Joins Fight to Save Nearly 3,000 Endangered Languages (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.102255.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google Joins Fight to Save Nearly 3,000 Endangered Languages
By Keith Wagstaff <http://techland.time.com/author/kpwagstaff/> |
@kwagstaff<http://www.twitter.com/kwagstaff>| June
22, 2012
US

The last native speakers of Miami-Illinois died in the 1960s. Two centuries
earlier, Jesuits came to the United States and found two tribes — the Miami
and the Illinois, which both shared a common language.

“The Jesuits believed you had to understand the language and the culture of
the people you were trying to convert,” says George Ironstrack, assistant
director for the Myaamia Project <http://www.myaamiaproject.org/>. “Then
you could preach to them in their language and translate religious
materials for them.”

While the Jesuits may not have had the purest of intentions, they did
create an extensive record of the language, including dictionaries in
French that matched words with sentences that put them in context. In the
1990s, researchers started the task of bringing the extinct language back
to life, teaching it to the Miami community in Oklahoma.

Read more:
http://techland.time.com/2012/06/22/google-joins-fight-to-save-nearly-3000-endangered-languages/#ixzz1yd8bOp1R
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 15:42:32 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:42:32 -0500
Subject: Bininj Gunwok website
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.104232.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings ILAT,

If you recall, a news post was linked here from early June.  It described "a
great new initiative from Western Arnhem Land that gives us all the chance
to learn a bit of an Aboriginal language: Bininj Gunwok*."  Here is the
link.  Take a look and fwd this post to show support.

http://bininjgunwok.org.au/

l8ter,
Phil
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 15:58:56 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:58:56 -0500
Subject: text on iBooks Author
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.105856.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 fyi,

Although I do not yet own an iPad, take a look at this free text on
creating Ebooks with iBooks Author...

Publishing with iBooks Author
 An Introduction to Creating Ebooks for the iPad
 By Nellie McKesson, Adam
Witwer<http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025597.do#tab_03>
Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Tools of Change
Released: February 2012
Pages: 108

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025597.do

Phil
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 18:11:36 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:11:36 -0500
Subject: Indigenous Language Institute Collaborates with Google on the
 Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.131136.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Indigenous Language Institute Collaborates with Google on the Endangered
Languages Project

June 24, 2012 | Posted by: DigitalMaori
NZ

Today marks the launch of the Endangered Languages Project, a collaboration
between the Indigenous Language Institute (ILI), other members of the
Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, and Google, which includes a website for
people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information
about endangered languages.

The site address is www.endangeredlanguages.com.

ILI is a member of a new coalition of organizations committed to preserving
endangered languages, the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, which backs
this project.

“ILI is proud to be associated with Google on this important initiative,
which we believe will be of immense use to Native Language teachers,
activists and learners,” says ILI Board of Directors President Gerald L.
Hill (Oneida).

Access full article below:
http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/18282
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From Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG  Mon Jun 25 11:09:48 2012
From: Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:09:48 +0300
Subject: UNESCO Directory for Linguistic Diversity
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.140948.0300.>

UNESCO have produced a directory for linguistic diversity. It contains long
lists of organisations, academic programmes, software, donors, archives,
resources, web sites etc.

 

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/pdf/International%20co
operation%20programs.pdf

 

Dave Pearson

Permanent Representative to UNESCO

SIL International

 

Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 

UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581

Office: +254 202 723 793

Skype: dave_pearson_sil

Web: www.sil.org

 

SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
sustainable language
development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
development.

 

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From Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG  Mon Jun 25 13:26:52 2012
From: Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:26:52 +0300
Subject: Graphite: a "smart font" system
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.162652.0300.>

Graphite is a "smart font" system developed specifically to handle the
complexities of lesser-known languages of the world. They have just launched
a new web site: 

 

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects&item_id=graphi
te_home> &item_id=graphite_home 

 

Dave Pearson

Permanent Representative to UNESCO

SIL International

 

Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 

UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581

Office: +254 202 723 793

Skype: dave_pearson_sil

Web: www.sil.org

 

SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
sustainable language
development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
development.

 

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun 25 17:02:19 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:02:19 -0500
Subject: Aboriginal language knowledge and youth suicide (fwd blog link)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.120219.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Aboriginal language knowledge and youth suicide

qmulbilingualism
25 Jun

Hallett, D., Chandler, M. J., & Lalonde, C. E. (2007). Aboriginal
language knowledge and youth suicide. Cognitive Development, 22(3),
392–399.

(via Indigenous Tweets)


From annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG  Mon Jun 25 21:19:29 2012
From: annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG (Anna Luisa Daigneault)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:19:29 -0400
Subject: UNESCO Directory for Linguistic Diversity
In-Reply-To: <004401cd52c3$0b1ea330$215be990$@org>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.171929.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

This is so great, thanks for sending this!
Anna


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Dave Pearson <Dave_Pearson at sil.org> wrote:

> UNESCO have produced a directory for linguistic diversity. It contains
> long lists of organisations, academic programmes, software, donors,
> archives, resources, web sites etc.****
>
> ** **
>
>
> http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/pdf/International%20cooperation%20programs.pdf
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> Dave Pearson****
>
> Permanent Representative to UNESCO****
>
> SIL International****
>
> ** **
>
> Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 ****
>
> UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581****
>
> Office: +254 202 723 793****
>
> Skype: dave_pearson_sil****
>
> Web: www.sil.org****
>
> ** **
>
> *SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
> sustainable language
> development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
> development.*****
>
> ** **
>



-- 
Anna Luisa Daigneault, M.Sc
Latin America Projects Coordinator & Organizational Fellow
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages<http://www.livingtongues.org>
Enduring Voices
Project<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>
<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>@livingtongues<http://twitter.com/#%21/livingtongues>

The Yanesha Oral History Archives
Arr Añño'tena Poeñotenaxhno Yanesha
www.yanesha.com
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 26 03:15:49 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:15:49 -0500
Subject: UNESCO Directory for Linguistic Diversity
In-Reply-To: <CAD2-PA5TqjUOWukETv8xeT+G7gn-uN=vMXDk=sfO93UtTyom2g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.221549.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Excellent work, Dave.  Much appreciated, Phil


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Anna Luisa Daigneault
<annaluisa at livingtongues.org> wrote:
> This is so great, thanks for sending this!
> Anna
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Dave Pearson <Dave_Pearson at sil.org> wrote:
>>
>> UNESCO have produced a directory for linguistic diversity. It contains
>> long lists of organisations, academic programmes, software, donors,
>> archives, resources, web sites etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/pdf/International%20cooperation%20programs.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave Pearson
>>
>> Permanent Representative to UNESCO
>>
>> SIL International
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837
>>
>> UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581
>>
>> Office: +254 202 723 793
>>
>> Skype: dave_pearson_sil
>>
>> Web: www.sil.org
>>
>>
>>
>> SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
>> sustainable language
>> development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
>> development.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Anna Luisa Daigneault, M.Sc
> Latin America Projects Coordinator & Organizational Fellow
> Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
> Enduring Voices Project
> @livingtongues
>
> The Yanesha Oral History Archives
> Arr Añño'tena Poeñotenaxhno Yanesha
> www.yanesha.com
>
>
>


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 26 03:17:42 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:17:42 -0500
Subject: Commission helps language preservation plan (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.221742.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Commission helps language preservation plan

BY JEREMY WARREN, THE STARPHOENIX JUNE 25, 2012
Canada

Emile Highway couldn't speak one word of English when he arrived at
the Guy Hill Indian Residential School.

He spoke Woodland Cree with his family for his first seven years, but
the school didn't allow him or his fellow students to speak their
native languages, leaving him without a voice.

"We only used it at the far end of the playground," Highway said at
the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Saskatoon.
"The English language was a necessity for us to leave behind our
traditions. That was the message - being Native was no good. White was
right."

Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Commission+helps+language+preservation+plan/6834463/story.html#ixzz1yrf2iR1O


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 26 03:21:21 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:21:21 -0500
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLiteracy_Makes_You_Lazy=E2=80=9D=3A_?=Saving
 Endangered Lan guages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.222121.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

“Literacy Makes You Lazy”: Saving Endangered Languages

Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
US

“Literacy makes you lazy: we don’t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
more,” David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.

“I don’t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,” said Harrison, a
linguist who studies many of the world’s disappearing languages.

Harrison’s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
study some of the most important endangered language “hotspots” around
the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.

Access full article below:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/


From awebster at SIU.EDU  Tue Jun 26 12:22:37 2012
From: awebster at SIU.EDU (Anthony Webster)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:22:37 -0500
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94=3A_?=Saving
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Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers!
Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great
deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy.
Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number
of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should
be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> “Literacy Makes You Lazy”: Saving Endangered Languages
>
> Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
> US
>
> “Literacy makes you lazy: we don’t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
> more,” David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
> Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
> Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.
>
> “I don’t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,” said Harrison, a
> linguist who studies many of the world’s disappearing languages.
>
> Harrison’s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
> team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
> study some of the most important endangered language “hotspots” around
> the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/
>



-- 
Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Native American Studies Minor
MC 4502
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-5019
http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html

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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Tue Jun 26 13:46:25 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:46:25 -0500
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLiteracy_Makes_You_Lazy=E2=80=9D=3A_?=Saving
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Some things we just don't take the time to commit to memory
but some of us working on the revitalization of language and reviving
ancient ceremonies
still must put in time to memorize speeches and prayers. It's important
these are not read aloud.

Memorization of speeches takes time...lots of time. TIME is what our
nervous fast-paced
dominant culture is consistently short of. When do people have the time to
memorize anything?
Some memorize during commutes.I practice memorization while rolling clay
coils in the studio,
or while working in the garden.
Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical
routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a
bowstring....
these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and
malleable.

unéh!
Richard Zane Smith

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Anthony Webster <awebster at siu.edu> wrote:

> Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers!
> Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great
> deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy.
> Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number
> of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should
> be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
> cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>> “Literacy Makes You Lazy”: Saving Endangered Languages
>>
>> Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
>> US
>>
>> “Literacy makes you lazy: we don’t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
>> more,” David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
>> Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
>> Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.
>>
>> “I don’t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,” said Harrison, a
>> linguist who studies many of the world’s disappearing languages.
>>
>> Harrison’s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
>> team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
>> study some of the most important endangered language “hotspots” around
>> the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.
>>
>> Access full article below:
>>
>> http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
> Native American Studies Minor
> MC 4502
> Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
> Carbondale, IL 62901
> 618-453-5019
>
> http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html
>
> Dream other dreams, and better!
>                                  Mark Twain
>
>


-- 
*

"Think not forever of yourselves... nor of your own generation.

Think of continuing generations of our families,

think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn,

whose faces are coming from beneath the ground."             The Peacemaker,


 richardzanesmith.wordpress.com

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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Tue Jun 26 13:54:07 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:54:07 +0100
Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94=3A_?=Saving
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I find it really surprising that David would say something so silly. Actors memorize thousands of lines of plays. Shakespearean actors making a career playing different roles on the stage memorize all the lines for multiple roles across several different plays because they deploy that knowledge regularly. Same with opera singers. I have forgotten most the lines to Marc Anthony's funeral speech that I memorized in high school because I haven't been performing it regularly. I can only assume that the reporter deleted all the hedging and context that David would normally provide.

Watching and helping my 6-year-old and 9-year-old acquire literacy shows me just how much hard work is involved. It doesn't end with them. Teaching first-year university students how to read a journal article is another skill requiring teaching and practice before they learn how to do it. I'm sure David has had similar experiences teaching undergraduates, too.

The point that I think David was trying to make, and the 'journalist' garbled, is the classic Boasian position that oral traditions should be valued just as much as written/literary ones. The keepers of oral traditions are also fantastic artists in many cases. We will never know for sure unless we send out more people to document those traditions in the original language, and even better would be to foster a political and economic landscape that rewarded those individuals and communities for maintaining heritage languages, whereas now they are rewarded for shifting to one of a handful of dominant languages.

-Alex

On 26 Jun 2012, at 1:22 pm, Anthony Webster wrote:

Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers! Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy. Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu<mailto:cashcash at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:
“Literacy Makes You Lazy”: Saving Endangered Languages

Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
US

“Literacy makes you lazy: we don’t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
more,” David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.

“I don’t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,” said Harrison, a
linguist who studies many of the world’s disappearing languages.

Harrison’s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
study some of the most important endangered language “hotspots” around
the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.

Access full article below:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/



--
Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Native American Studies Minor
MC 4502
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-5019
http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html

Dream other dreams, and better!
                                 Mark Twain



———————————
Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
http://www.koryaks.net/
Tweet @Ememqut01

Editor, Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/sib/

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From mhermes at UMN.EDU  Tue Jun 26 13:59:37 2012
From: mhermes at UMN.EDU (Mary Hermes)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:59:37 -0500
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving End
 ang ered Lan guages (fwd link )
In-Reply-To: <1F2F8E3D-E850-4102-8D54-F2A76436406D@abdn.ac.uk>
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Yep, move over-simplistic binary thinking...spun by media into grant meta narratives that we are all familiar with and so ring with nostalgia.

I really like Richard's idea of memorizing in the garden, yep, that's the lesson for me when I can't stop my mind from going in ten directions at once. 



--------------------------------------------



Mary Hermes, PhD
Associate and Visiting Professor, 2011-12
Curriculum and Instruction
University of Minnesota





On Jun 26, 2012, at 8:54 AM, King, Dr Alexander D. wrote:

> I find it really surprising that David would say something so silly. Actors memorize thousands of lines of plays. Shakespearean actors making a career playing different roles on the stage memorize all the lines for multiple roles across several different plays because they deploy that knowledge regularly. Same with opera singers. I have forgotten most the lines to Marc Anthony's funeral speech that I memorized in high school because I haven't been performing it regularly. I can only assume that the reporter deleted all the hedging and context that David would normally provide. 
> 
> Watching and helping my 6-year-old and 9-year-old acquire literacy shows me just how much hard work is involved. It doesn't end with them. Teaching first-year university students how to read a journal article is another skill requiring teaching and practice before they learn how to do it. I'm sure David has had similar experiences teaching undergraduates, too.
> 
> The point that I think David was trying to make, and the 'journalist' garbled, is the classic Boasian position that oral traditions should be valued just as much as written/literary ones. The keepers of oral traditions are also fantastic artists in many cases. We will never know for sure unless we send out more people to document those traditions in the original language, and even better would be to foster a political and economic landscape that rewarded those individuals and communities for maintaining heritage languages, whereas now they are rewarded for shifting to one of a handful of dominant languages.
> 
> -Alex
> 
> On 26 Jun 2012, at 1:22 pm, Anthony Webster wrote:
> 
>> Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers! Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy. Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>> “Literacy Makes You Lazy”: Saving Endangered Languages
>> 
>> Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
>> US
>> 
>> “Literacy makes you lazy: we don’t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
>> more,” David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
>> Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
>> Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.
>> 
>> “I don’t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,” said Harrison, a
>> linguist who studies many of the world’s disappearing languages.
>> 
>> Harrison’s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
>> team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
>> study some of the most important endangered language “hotspots” around
>> the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.
>> 
>> Access full article below:
>> http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
>> Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
>> Native American Studies Minor
>> MC 4502
>> Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
>> Carbondale, IL 62901
>> 618-453-5019
>> http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html
>>  
>> Dream other dreams, and better!
>>                                  Mark Twain
>> 
> 
> 
> ———————————
> Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732
>       
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
> http://www.koryaks.net/
> Tweet @Ememqut01
> 
> Editor, Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/sib/
> 
> Living with Koryak Traditions discount code '6as11': http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Living-with-Koryak-Traditions,674798.aspx
> 
> 
> 
> The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.


From nwarner at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 26 14:19:46 2012
From: nwarner at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Warner, Natasha - (nwarner))
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:19:46 +0000
Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94=3A_?=Saving
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In-Reply-To: <1F2F8E3D-E850-4102-8D54-F2A76436406D@abdn.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.141946.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Yes, let's try to remember that what journalists write often is pretty different from what an academic said.  The journalists are usually looking for a quick headline that will appeal to a lot of readers, and they're willing to jump to all sorts of unwarranted conclusions based on whatever the academic said.  If you're lucky, the journalists says something to you while they're taking notes like "So, would you say ___, then?" and you get the chance to answer "No!  That's not what I said at all, I didn't test that, and I would never claim that!  Let's start over."  But usually they don't give you that chance, they just go write and publish the article without your input.  A journalist once tried to twist my research to claim that people are talking "sloppy" these days because they're not reading enough anymore.  I didn't claim either of those things, let alone that one causes the other, and I had no data on how quantity of reading or speech reduction might have changed in different time periods.  Luckily, that journalist gave me the chance to fix that.  So maybe the bit about laziness and literacy isn't what David Harrison said or meant.

Thanks,
Natasha

***************************************************
Natasha Warner, Professor
Dept. of Linguistics, Box 210028
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0028
USA
520-626-5591
***************************************************
________________________________
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] on behalf of King, Dr Alexander D. [a.king at ABDN.AC.UK]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 6:54 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] “Literacy Makes You Lazy”: Saving End ang ered Lan guages (fwd link)

I find it really surprising that David would say something so silly. Actors memorize thousands of lines of plays. Shakespearean actors making a career playing different roles on the stage memorize all the lines for multiple roles across several different plays because they deploy that knowledge regularly. Same with opera singers. I have forgotten most the lines to Marc Anthony's funeral speech that I memorized in high school because I haven't been performing it regularly. I can only assume that the reporter deleted all the hedging and context that David would normally provide.

Watching and helping my 6-year-old and 9-year-old acquire literacy shows me just how much hard work is involved. It doesn't end with them. Teaching first-year university students how to read a journal article is another skill requiring teaching and practice before they learn how to do it. I'm sure David has had similar experiences teaching undergraduates, too.

The point that I think David was trying to make, and the 'journalist' garbled, is the classic Boasian position that oral traditions should be valued just as much as written/literary ones. The keepers of oral traditions are also fantastic artists in many cases. We will never know for sure unless we send out more people to document those traditions in the original language, and even better would be to foster a political and economic landscape that rewarded those individuals and communities for maintaining heritage languages, whereas now they are rewarded for shifting to one of a handful of dominant languages.

-Alex

On 26 Jun 2012, at 1:22 pm, Anthony Webster wrote:

Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers! Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy. Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu<mailto:cashcash at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:
“Literacy Makes You Lazy”: Saving Endangered Languages

Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
US

“Literacy makes you lazy: we don’t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
more,” David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.

“I don’t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,” said Harrison, a
linguist who studies many of the world’s disappearing languages.

Harrison’s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
study some of the most important endangered language “hotspots” around
the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.

Access full article below:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/



--
Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Native American Studies Minor
MC 4502
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-5019
http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html

Dream other dreams, and better!
                                 Mark Twain



———————————
Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
http://www.koryaks.net/
Tweet @Ememqut01

Editor, Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/sib/

Living with Koryak Traditions discount code '6as11': http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Living-with-Koryak-Traditions,674798.aspx



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From gmcmaya at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 26 15:32:55 2012
From: gmcmaya at GMAIL.COM (Maya Tracy Borhani)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:32:55 -0700
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving End
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On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:

> Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
> hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a bowstring....
> these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and malleable.


As does any significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6). 

This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.

Maya
Maya T. Borhani
Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
Faculty of Education
University of British Columbia
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z4


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From annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG  Tue Jun 26 17:29:12 2012
From: annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG (Anna Luisa Daigneault)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:29:12 -0400
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving En
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Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.132912.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hello everyone,

I am writing to you on behalf of the the Living Tongues Institute for
Endangered Languages. I just spoke to David Harrison and he said that "the
headline was a very poor choice by the journalist." He had the post edited
so it is now entitled “English Goes in One Ear and Out Another”: An
Endangered Language
Perspective<http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/>".


You can click on the link and refresh it in your browser to see the new
title. Additionally, we are forwarding all your comments to the Nat Geo
NewsWatch team members who were involved with the article, so they can
better understand the social issues surrounding literacy and oral
traditions and not jump so quickly to conclusions. As people on this thread
have mentioned, journalists sometimes misunderstand and misconstrue the
words of their interviewees, and take certain sentences out of context
without worrying about the consequences. Harrison will also post his own
reply later today when he is back from his trip.

all the best
Anna Luisa

-- 
Anna Luisa Daigneault, M.Sc
Latin America Projects Coordinator & Organizational Fellow
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages<http://www.livingtongues.org>
Enduring Voices
Project<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>
<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>@livingtongues<http://twitter.com/#%21/livingtongues>

The Yanesha Oral History Archives
Arr Añño'tena Poeñotenaxhno Yanesha
www.yanesha.com



On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Maya Tracy Borhani <gmcmaya at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
>
> Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical
> routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
> hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a
> bowstring....
> these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and
> malleable.
>
>
>
> As does *any* significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling
> efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE
> of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved
> real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract
> theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6).
>
> This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum
> policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.
>
> Maya
> Maya T. Borhani
> Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
> Faculty of Education
> University of British Columbia
> 2125 Main Mall
> Vancouver, BC
> Canada V6T 1Z4
>
>
>
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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Tue Jun 26 17:43:31 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:43:31 -0500
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLiteracy_Makes_You_Lazy=E2=80=9D_?=:
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thanks Maya and Mary!
another thing i might add is that for me, memorization is best in morning
hours,
when it seems even sunlight smells fresh baked.
my morning mind is a glassy pool of spring water and I'm watching minnows
move gently through various layers. By evening its much more stirred and
sludgy!
(and by the way,...If we don't have time for watching minnows?....then we
really are missing something!)

:-)
Richard Zane Smith



On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Maya Tracy Borhani <gmcmaya at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
>
> Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical
> routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
> hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a
> bowstring....
> these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and
> malleable.
>
>
>
> As does *any* significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling
> efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE
> of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved
> real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract
> theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6).
>
> This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum
> policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.
>
> Maya
> Maya T. Borhani
> Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
> Faculty of Education
> University of British Columbia
> 2125 Main Mall
> Vancouver, BC
> Canada V6T 1Z4
>
>
>


-- 
*

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Think of continuing generations of our families,

think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn,

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From evan at WHEREAREYOURKEYS.ORG  Tue Jun 26 17:44:52 2012
From: evan at WHEREAREYOURKEYS.ORG (Evan Gardner)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:44:52 -0700
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94=3A_?=Saving
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Hello All,

Evan from "Where Are Your Keys?"

We have a technique called "speak to remember, write to forget".

It is a pretty general way of saying your language will live if it is
spoken... so speak it.

If the same amount of time were spent creating speakers then we wouldn't
have to write anything down. We would just speak and live. Knowledge would
just live within individuals and communities.

I am in no way against writing. I have just seen that writing is not the
easiest point of entry for two year olds. If adults learn by writing then
they will try to teach by writing. Why not teach in the same way you would
want the adults teaching the children. Train the adults to teach children
by teaching the adults to speak.

It does seam like a bit of work to get speaking but with clever curriculum
organization speaking can happen in minutes. Then no one has to memorize
anything. Language flows through the mind and into the community.

My 2 cents

I am enjoying the conversation as usual.

Thanks
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From gmcmaya at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 26 17:57:29 2012
From: gmcmaya at GMAIL.COM (Maya Tracy Borhani)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:57:29 -0700
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving End
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he-he! Evan from Where are your keys?

Hesasaka, Maya from Mtn. Maidu country!

good to know we're both on the list: will try to get Farrell CUnningham to come to the upcoming WHere Are YOur Keys workshop
 would you actually mind re-sending me that info?
WITH THANK!

Maya

On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Evan Gardner wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Evan from "Where Are Your Keys?" 
> 
> We have a technique called "speak to remember, write to forget".
> 
> It is a pretty general way of saying your language will live if it is spoken... so speak it.
> 
> If the same amount of time were spent creating speakers then we wouldn't have to write anything down. We would just speak and live. Knowledge would just live within individuals and communities.
> 
> I am in no way against writing. I have just seen that writing is not the easiest point of entry for two year olds. If adults learn by writing then they will try to teach by writing. Why not teach in the same way you would want the adults teaching the children. Train the adults to teach children by teaching the adults to speak. 
> 
> It does seam like a bit of work to get speaking but with clever curriculum organization speaking can happen in minutes. Then no one has to memorize anything. Language flows through the mind and into the community.
> 
> My 2 cents
> 
> I am enjoying the conversation as usual.
> 
> Thanks


From evan at WHEREAREYOURKEYS.ORG  Tue Jun 26 18:03:54 2012
From: evan at WHEREAREYOURKEYS.ORG (Evan Gardner)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:03:54 -0700
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving En
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In-Reply-To: <E19053B1-04F8-41B3-B9FC-1647110DD5F9@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.110354.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

You just missed it! It was last weekend!

Every Wednesday night at the health clinic they play a huge game. 30 people
come!
On Jun 26, 2012 10:57 AM, "Maya Tracy Borhani" <gmcmaya at gmail.com> wrote:

> he-he! Evan from Where are your keys?
>
> Hesasaka, Maya from Mtn. Maidu country!
>
> good to know we're both on the list: will try to get Farrell CUnningham to
> come to the upcoming WHere Are YOur Keys workshop
>  would you actually mind re-sending me that info?
> WITH THANK!
>
> Maya
>
> On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Evan Gardner wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Evan from "Where Are Your Keys?"
> >
> > We have a technique called "speak to remember, write to forget".
> >
> > It is a pretty general way of saying your language will live if it is
> spoken... so speak it.
> >
> > If the same amount of time were spent creating speakers then we wouldn't
> have to write anything down. We would just speak and live. Knowledge would
> just live within individuals and communities.
> >
> > I am in no way against writing. I have just seen that writing is not the
> easiest point of entry for two year olds. If adults learn by writing then
> they will try to teach by writing. Why not teach in the same way you would
> want the adults teaching the children. Train the adults to teach children
> by teaching the adults to speak.
> >
> > It does seam like a bit of work to get speaking but with clever
> curriculum organization speaking can happen in minutes. Then no one has to
> memorize anything. Language flows through the mind and into the community.
> >
> > My 2 cents
> >
> > I am enjoying the conversation as usual.
> >
> > Thanks
>
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From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG  Tue Jun 26 21:35:42 2012
From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:35:42 -0700
Subject: Online Resource (language)
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.143542.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Website
Endangered Languages, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ 
An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.
 
Examples
Listing for Dine’, Dineh, Diné http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085 
Listing for Southwest Ojibwe, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005
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From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 26 23:57:42 2012
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0400
Subject: Online Resource (language)
In-Reply-To: <9B042DD0-F44E-426D-A5C7-B204DDEFB3AD@ncidc.org>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.195742.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I'd very strongly encourage anyone who sees errors in the catalogue to
submit a comment, and if you have language samples that you're able to
share, that would be great. We are very concerned to make this an accurate
resource that reflects the communities whose languages are listed. The
catalogue won't bring the languages back, of course, but it could be useful
to point to when applying for grants, for example.
Claire

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org>wrote:

> Website
> *Endangered Languages*, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
> An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.
>
>
> Examples
> Listing for Dine’, Dineh, Diné
> http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085
> Listing for Southwest Ojibwe, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
> Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005
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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Wed Jun 27 08:10:30 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:10:30 +0100
Subject: Online Resource (language)--google languages
In-Reply-To: <CAN6CvhfzJvjuEuSZF+EE-pZyAWPZLUdGhhFofMms6wNaXqJtJQ@mail.gmail.com>
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It does not strike me as any more useful for grant applications than the Ethnologue, perhaps less so comparing the reputations. One feature that would be nice, especially for students looking for projects, would be highlighting languages that have little or no documentation. Clearly, the lack of 'samples' on the website doesn't mean a lack of documentation.

Is there a website of any kind that advertises undocumented or understudied languages?

Alex

On 27 Jun 2012, at 12:57 am, Claire Bowern wrote:

I'd very strongly encourage anyone who sees errors in the catalogue to submit a comment, and if you have language samples that you're able to share, that would be great. We are very concerned to make this an accurate resource that reflects the communities whose languages are listed. The catalogue won't bring the languages back, of course, but it could be useful to point to when applying for grants, for example.
Claire

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org<mailto:andrekaruk at ncidc.org>> wrote:
Website
Endangered Languages, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.

Examples
Listing for Dine’, Dineh, Diné http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085
Listing for Southwest Ojibwe, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005



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From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun 27 18:16:38 2012
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:16:38 -0400
Subject: Online Resource (language)--google languages
In-Reply-To: <A3AB2A0F-F55B-44C0-B8B4-60D1405EAD6B@abdn.ac.uk>
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I believe that's on the list for release soon. There's a huge bibliography
behind the database which will be available soon.
Claire

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:10 AM, King, Dr Alexander D. <a.king at abdn.ac.uk>wrote:

>  It does not strike me as any more useful for grant applications than the
> Ethnologue, perhaps less so comparing the reputations. One feature that
> would be nice, especially for students looking for projects, would be
> highlighting languages that have little or no documentation. Clearly, the
> lack of 'samples' on the website doesn't mean a lack of documentation.
>
>  Is there a website of any kind that advertises undocumented or
> understudied languages?
>
>  Alex
>
>  On 27 Jun 2012, at 12:57 am, Claire Bowern wrote:
>
> I'd very strongly encourage anyone who sees errors in the catalogue to
> submit a comment, and if you have language samples that you're able to
> share, that would be great. We are very concerned to make this an accurate
> resource that reflects the communities whose languages are listed. The
> catalogue won't bring the languages back, of course, but it could be useful
> to point to when applying for grants, for example.
> Claire
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org>wrote:
>
>>  Website
>>  *Endangered Languages*, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
>> An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.
>>
>>
>>  Examples
>>  Listing for Dine’, Dineh, Diné
>> http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085
>>  Listing for Southwest Ojibwe,
>> http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
>>  Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005
>>
>
>
>
> ———————————
>   Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,
>  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732
>
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
>  http://www.koryaks.net/
> Tweet @Ememqut01
>
>  Editor, Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies:
> http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/sib/
>
>  *Living with Koryak Traditions* discount code '*6as11*':
> http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Living-with-Koryak-Traditions,674798.aspx
>
>
>
> The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No
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From whalen at HASKINS.YALE.EDU  Wed Jun 27 18:24:57 2012
From: whalen at HASKINS.YALE.EDU (Doug Whalen)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:24:57 -0400
Subject: Online Resource (language)--google languages
In-Reply-To: <CAN6Cvhdt5AsAbWjVcuBWFYBvLJ0SFonu0_g+SSuXuGJjOuerVQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUN.2012.142457.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

  Just to amplify Claire's response, the direct website for the NSF project is:
http://linguistlist.org/projects/elcat.cfm
They are working their way through 200,000 references to encode language and type (grammar, dictionary, etc.), and to give an initial quality rating.
  Doug DhW

On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Claire Bowern wrote:

> I believe that's on the list for release soon. There's a huge bibliography behind the database which will be available soon. 
> Claire
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:10 AM, King, Dr Alexander D. <a.king at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
> It does not strike me as any more useful for grant applications than the Ethnologue, perhaps less so comparing the reputations. One feature that would be nice, especially for students looking for projects, would be highlighting languages that have little or no documentation. Clearly, the lack of 'samples' on the website doesn't mean a lack of documentation.
> 
> Is there a website of any kind that advertises undocumented or understudied languages?
> 
> Alex
> 
> On 27 Jun 2012, at 12:57 am, Claire Bowern wrote:
> 
>> I'd very strongly encourage anyone who sees errors in the catalogue to submit a comment, and if you have language samples that you're able to share, that would be great. We are very concerned to make this an accurate resource that reflects the communities whose languages are listed. The catalogue won't bring the languages back, of course, but it could be useful to point to when applying for grants, for example.
>> Claire
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org> wrote:
>> Website
>> Endangered Languages, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ 
>> An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.
>>  
>> Examples
>> Listing for Dine’, Dineh, Diné http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085 
>> Listing for Southwest Ojibwe, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
>> Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005
>> 
> 
> 
> ———————————
> Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732
>       
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
> http://www.koryaks.net/
> Tweet @Ememqut01
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
> 

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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Thu Jun 28 07:41:00 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:41:00 -0400
Subject: news cycle...
In-Reply-To: <3f0badc0c9e5c64ac42c8434805073dd@ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.034100.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I apologize for not having written much lately but I have not forgotten you
or your people. I often get and idea and do research on it. This evening, in
responding to a Latvian friend on colonialism, I mentioned knowing you in my
dialogue. After I posted to him, I wanted to refresh my memory on some
points of your peoples. I found the following article which speaks a lot and
quite highly of a friend of mine who is, like myself and my people, 'fwan-a'
(番). I hope I have gotten this correct and it is complimentary rather than
derogatory. We also, to this day are thought of as 'barbarians'.


<http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=rdmap&Itemid=262&id
=903>
http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=rdmap&Itemid=262&id=
903

I was quite fascinated and after a sleep, as it is quite late here, 3:32 AM,
I will do more research on all this information. I hope all is well with
your family and I often think of your elder who walked so quietly to sit on
the entrance to the parliament and I hope he is well. My Dad turned 92 years
on March 10th 2012 and he is still going very well and independent. He stood
for all the rights of our people for as long as I can remember him.
I have to have a cup of tea and go to sleep so I will say good night Huang
Chun(Jimmy) and have a great day. I will probably be sleeping....

wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  “in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper -
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains:
repressive force.” SubCommander Marcos...


  _____

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Huang,Chun
Sent: June-22-12 11:15 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] news cycle...



Thanks, Phil,

definitely love to see more of the localized news!

Jimmy

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:39:16 -0500, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

Greetings folks,

The news of Google's recent launch of the Endangered Languages Project made
a rush of headlines yesterday.  All quite exciting (since I search the news
daily).  I'm sure we will see more of the same in the coming month.  Keep an
eye out for original journalistic articles as these seem to take a uniquely
local perspective containing new information.  For example, in today's
headline, we saw:

Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+lang
uages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic

This article was good because it "localized" the news of Google's ELP launch
during"...(a big pancake breakfast) at the offices of the First Peoples'
Cultural Council on the Tsartlip reserve" in Victoria, Canada.  :P

l8ter,
Phil







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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 28 14:49:48 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:49:48 -0500
Subject: Oklahoma Today
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.094948.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

’ehé (greetings)!


Featured in the recent July/August issue of Oklahoma Today magazine is
Melanie McKay-Cody, signer/linguist and indigenous scholar of North
American Indian Sign Language.

http://www.oklahomatoday.com/oklahomatoday/MAGAZINE/Current_Issue/index.html


Phil
KU CoLang 2012
Lawrence, KS


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 28 16:00:26 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:00:26 -0500
Subject: Native Group Helps Google Preserve Endangered Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.110026.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Native Group Helps Google Preserve Endangered Languages
Google funds project to catalogue languages threatened with extinction

By Justina Reichel
Epoch Times Staff Created: June 27, 2012 Last Updated: June 28, 2012
Canada

The First Peoples’ Cultural Council, a first nations-run Crown
corporation based on Vancouver Island, has been chosen to oversee a
project developed by Google that seeks to preserve endangered
indigenous languages.

The Google Endangered Languages Project, launched June 21 to coincide
with National Aboriginal Day, invites language experts from around the
world to post videos, audio clips, books and other publications on its
website to catalogue languages that are in danger of becoming extinct.

Access full article below:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/canada/native-group-helps-google-preserve-endangered-languages-258046.html


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 28 16:28:04 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:28:04 -0500
Subject: Hi from Gloria Bird
In-Reply-To: <CAJj0DtVusA4X4P=CHWgqg-s+OQPt6-wdakTw=WO1O5xG1sLCqQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.112804.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

’ehé (greetings),

I wish to share a request from a community member.  I am hoping our
generous & esteemed members here can share info that might help in this
particular instance.

life and language always,

Phil



On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:20 AM:
> I was searching online for some academic writing on native heritage
> language.  What I am interested in are any writings that support tribal
> efforts to recover/reintroduce language into their communities,
particularly
> with K-12 via immersion schooling that involves teacher and parents,
> grandparents or other caregivers.  I am working with our language
department
> to solicit funding for curriculum development, and I am wondering if there
> is writing that talks about how important language is to support native
> culture.  If you know of anything that might help, are you able to send
pdf
> files?  I actually need something ASAP.
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From hklein at NOTES.CC.SUNYSB.EDU  Thu Jun 28 16:51:34 2012
From: hklein at NOTES.CC.SUNYSB.EDU (Harriet Klein)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:51:34 -0400
Subject: Hi from Gloria Bird
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From weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jun 29 01:19:37 2012
From: weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM (Phil Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:19:37 -0500
Subject: Fwd: For immediate release! Please publicize.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -



Endangered Language Activists Bring the World to Kansas

LAWRENCE, KANSAS.

"My grandmother chose not to teach me Kickapoo purposefully. She said, 'You
don't need to know that' because her hair was washed with kerosene and
her mouth was washed out with lye soap for speaking to her sister in our
language. She didn't want that to happen to me," wept JoAnne Grandstaff.
The Kickapoo language, a Native American language spoken in Kansas, is
fighting for its survival, as are many endangered languages worldwide.

Community language activists from indigenous communities within Morocco,
Kenya, Nigeria and North America, met in Lawrence, Kansas at Watson Library
on the campus of the University of Kansas for an endangered languages
conference.  Speakers and signers representing languages as diverse as
Amazigh, Uda, North American Indian Sign Language, Nez Perce, and Ekegusii
joined forces to raise awareness of their language communities and the
endangered status of their languages.  Many have been doing this kind of
work for a long time, but this meeting of minds will also train a new
generation and pass on the knowledge from different parts of the world.

"Most of the time the reason the parents do not transmit the language to
their children is due to the stigmatization and exclusion of the language,"
noted Yamina El-Kirat, a member of the Amazigh community from Morocco,
where she is a linguistics professor.

"Often a key factor is that parents have the false feeling that the many
languages a child might learn will inhibit their knowledge of English,"
said Kennedy Bosire, director of the Ekegusii Encyclopedia and a language
activist from Kenya.  "To change this, we are here for a good purpose and
we want the world to know."

"For us, it's not a question of the parents consciously choosing. The only
language spoken in school is English." relayed Mfon Ibok Asanaenyi, a
barrister and an Uda language expert from Nigeria. "Also, the area is so
impoverished and there is a movement to the urban area and they switch to
the language of the urban area and then their indigenous language is lost."

Also from the Uda community, Prince Chris Abasi Eyo stated, "All
stakeholders in the project of preserving the diverse human cultures
through language revitalization have been asked to re-energize their
language activism through participatory advocacy."

The workshop at the University of Kansas in June and July, CoLang 2012
focuses on language documentation and revitalization.  Held in 2010 in
Eugene, Oregon and 2008 in Santa Barbara, California, the conference
unites linguists and community language activists to attain their common
goals.

"At this meeting, we're taking this diverse knowledge base, scientists and
community activists, and we're seeking ways to transform the world through
language activism, in the best possible way," said Phillip Cash Cash, a
Cayuse-Nez Perce speaker and scholar.

The workshop consists of two weeks of intensive short courses, followed
by an optional month-long course that implements that instruction into
collaborative practice by documenting one of three different endangered
languages.

"We can't imagine the world with one vegetable, one fruit, and language is
part of the nature of the diversity of the world," said Yamina El-Kirat.



About CoLang 2012

The CoLang Institute on Collaborative Language Research website is at
http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/

The workshop runs until July 29 and is directed by Professors Arienne Dwyer
and Carlos Nash from the Department of Anthropology at the University of
Kansas. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation, among
others.



Contact info:

This press release was written by the Activism class participants at CoLang
2012. For follow up, contact the Activism instructors/facilitators:
Phillip Cash Cash at weyiiletpu at gmail.com or 520-904-7364, and Colleen
Fitzgerald at cmfitz at uta.edu



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From Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA  Fri Jun 29 15:31:18 2012
From: Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA (Dawn McInnes)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:31:18 -0600
Subject: Hi from Gloria Bird
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Good day:

 

My name is Dawn McInnes and I am the Project Coordinator, Aboriginal Languages in the Official Languages Division with the Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Education, Culture and Employment.

 

I saw the request for help from Ms Bird on the issue of  writings that support tribal efforts to recover/reintroduce language into their communities, particularly  with K-12 via immersion schooling that involves teacher and parents, grandparents or other caregivers.

 

Although I do not have a lot of experience in this area, academically or otherwise, I do wish to recommend a paper entitled “ Development of the Zhahti Kue Slavey Language Program”  written by Georgina Blondin (now deceased but originally from the NWT).  This language program was in Fort Providence NWT where they now have South Slavey immersion from Kindergarten through to and including Grade 3.

 

Best of luck and let me know if Ms Bird needs any further help.

 

Dawn

 

P.S.  If Ms Bird cannot locate the article through “googling”  ask that she contact me directly and I can scan it to her.

 

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:28 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Hi from Gloria Bird

 

’ehé (greetings),

I wish to share a request from a community member.  I am hoping our generous & esteemed members here can share info that might help in this particular instance.  

life and language always,

Phil



On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:20 AM:
> I was searching online for some academic writing on native heritage
> language.  What I am interested in are any writings that support tribal
> efforts to recover/reintroduce language into their communities, particularly
> with K-12 via immersion schooling that involves teacher and parents,
> grandparents or other caregivers.  I am working with our language department
> to solicit funding for curriculum development, and I am wondering if there
> is writing that talks about how important language is to support native
> culture.  If you know of anything that might help, are you able to send pdf
> files?  I actually need something ASAP. 

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From Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA  Fri Jun 29 16:54:31 2012
From: Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA (Dawn McInnes)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:54:31 -0600
Subject: FW: The Development of the Zhahti Koe Slavey Language Program
 (Georgina Blondin of the NWT Canada)
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Good day:

Here is the article about which I spoke earlier in response to Ms Bird's request for academic articles about Aboriginal community experience with instituting Aboriginal language immersion programs in schools.  Although dated, it is excellent and I know you will all enjoy it.

Currently the Tłı̨chǫ Government (NWT Canada) ıs workıng to ınstıtute Tlı̨chǫ ımmersıon ın kındergarten begınnıng ın the fall of 2012.  For more ınformatıon on theır experıence you may wısh to contact Jım Martın at jimmarten at tlicho.com

Mahsi cho

Dawn

P.S.  Mahsi cho to the University of Victoria (BC Canada) and the En'owkin Centre for using this article as part of their Certificate Program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization

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From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG  Sat Jun 30 03:31:50 2012
From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:31:50 -0700
Subject: Yurok Class (language)
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Eureka City Schools board approves Yurok language class - Times-Standard Online
http://bit.ly/LKTfht

The Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved adding a Yurok I class at Eureka High School in the fall. To pay for the new class, Eureka City Schools has entered into a partnership with the Yurok Tribe.
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From Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG  Sat Jun 30 08:26:02 2012
From: Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:26:02 +0300
Subject: Tools for language documentation presented at Charting Vanishing
 Voices workshop
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Scholars and digital archivists are coming together 29-30 June for a
workshop entitled "Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to
Map Endangered Oral Cultures." The event is being held in England at
Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities (CRASSH). Martin Raymond of SIL's Non-Roman Script Initiative
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Welcome>  will
introduce several new tools for language documentation including
<http://www.scriptsource.org/> ScriptSource and EGIDS
<http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/EGIDS.pdf> . The new ScriptSource web
site provides a venue for documenting the world's writing systems. The
Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) is designed to
establish a language's level of endangerment. This new scale will be applied
to languages in the 17th edition of Ethnologue, which is scheduled for
publication in early 2013.

 

Dave Pearson

Permanent Representative to UNESCO

SIL International

 

Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 

UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581

Office: +254 202 723 793

Skype: dave_pearson_sil

Web: www.sil.org

 

SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
sustainable language
development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Sat Jun 30 11:28:43 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:28:43 +0100
Subject: Tools for language documentation presented at Charting
 Vanishing Voices workshop
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Martin just made his presentation here at the workshop and I think that Scriptsource.org<http://Scriptsource.org> looks like a fantastic resource. I will definitely spend some hours perusing it after I get home.

Just before Martin, Lyle Campbell gave a presentation on the website endangeredlanguages.com<http://endangeredlanguages.com> and the database and catalog behind it. It is clear to me that Google was hasty to rush to publicity. The linguists have a lot to add over the next few months and years. They have received hundreds of emails and I think I will wait a year at least before suggesting additions/corrections to the languages and groups I work with.

Finally, another great resource demonstrated today is glottolog, set up by linguists at MPI EVA in Leipzig. You should all check that out at glottolog.org<http://glottolog.org>

Alex

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 30, 2012, at 9:27 AM, "Dave Pearson" <Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG<mailto:Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG>> wrote:

Scholars and digital archivists are coming together 29-30 June for a workshop entitled “Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures.� The event is being held in England at Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Martin Raymond of SIL’s Non-Roman Script Initiative<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Welcome> will introduce several new tools for language documentation including ScriptSource<http://www.scriptsource.org/> and EGIDS<http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/EGIDS.pdf>. The new ScriptSource web site provides a venue for documenting the world’s writing systems. The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) is designed to establish a language’s level of endangerment. This new scale will be applied to languages in the 17th edition of Ethnologue, which is scheduled for publication in early 2013.

Dave Pearson
Permanent Representative to UNESCO
SIL International

Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837
UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581
Office: +254 202 723 793
Skype: dave_pearson_sil
Web: www.sil.org<http://www.sil.org>

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development, by means of research, translation, training and materials development.



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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun  1 07:34:50 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:34:50 -0700
Subject: Movement to save a dying Alaska language struggles (fwd link)
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Movement to save a dying Alaska language struggles

Katie Medred | May 31, 2012
US

St. Paul Island, Alaska is one of the largest Aleut communities in the
world, but its language has long been in danger of dissolving.

According to Alaska Public Radio Network, over the last decade Unangam
Tunuu, the heritage language of the Aleut people, has experienced something
of a revival. But despite making some progress, efforts to revitalize the
endangered language seems to be flat lining.

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From nievespi14 at YAHOO.ES  Mon Jun  4 17:55:11 2012
From: nievespi14 at YAHOO.ES (Yolanda Payano)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 18:55:11 +0100
Subject: 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks
 Them) (fwd
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Hi, my name is Nieves. I speak JAQARU language, which is spoken in AIZA, COLCA  and TUPE, in Lima - Per?. 



________________________________
De: William Firth <WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA>
Para: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
Enviado: Viernes 18 de Mayo de 2012 18:33
Asunto: Re: [ILAT] 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks Them) (fwd

Unfortunately, I am out of the office at this time.? If this is of an
important matter, please contact the GSCI Executive Director @ (867)
952-2524.? Thank you and have a good day!
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 18:39:12 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:39:12 -0700
Subject: Translation makes Bible available to Inuktitut speakers (fwd link)
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Translation makes Bible available to Inuktitut speakers

MICHAEL POSNER
The Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, Jun. 03 2012, 7:03 PM EDT

It has taken an un-Genesis-like 34 years to create, but Inuit communities
in Canada?s Eastern Arctic can now read the complete Bible in their own
language.

A consecration ceremony to mark the translation of the King James Version
into Inuktitut ? the official language in Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut
? was held Sunday at the new St. Jude?s Anglican Cathedral in Iqaluit,
Nunavut.

The project, jointly undertaken by the Canadian Bible Society and the
Anglican Church of Canada, cost about $1.75-million, according to Hartmut
Wiens, CBS?s director of scripture translation.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:01:49 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:01:49 -0700
Subject: $900m bill to save Aboriginal languages (fwd link)
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$900m bill to save Aboriginal languages

Bianca Hall, June 2, 2012
AUS

MANY Aboriginal languages are in danger of extinction, a parliamentary
committee has been told, with just 20 to 30 considered ''viable''.

More than 250 languages were spoken in 1788 but the Australian Institute of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies was able to identify only 145
languages in 2005. Of those, 110 were classified as ''severely and
critically endangered''.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:03:54 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:03:54 -0700
Subject: Indigenous languages in threat of extinction (fwd link)
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Indigenous languages in threat of extinction

June 2, 2012
AUS

A number of Aboriginal languages are in danger of extinction, a
parliamentary committee was told this week, with just 20 to 30 considered
viable.

In 1788, it is estimated, more than 250 languages were spoken. By 2005,
when the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies did a national survey of languages, it identified just 145
languages. Of those, 110 were classified as ''severely and critically
endangered'', meaning they were spoken by small groups of people who were
mostly older than 40.

The standing committee for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs on
languages, which met on Thursday, was told it could cost $900 million to
save languages under threat.

Read more:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/indigenous-languages-in-threat-of-extinction-20120601-1znjb.html#ixzz1wqwFu8Pk
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From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Mon Jun  4 19:24:43 2012
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:24:43 -0500
Subject: Translation makes Bible available to Inuktitut speakers (fwd
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:39:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:39:10 -0700
Subject: Australian aboriginal canoes help re-launch pride (fwd link)
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Australian aboriginal canoes help re-launch pride

By Pauline Askin
SYDNEY | Mon Jun 4, 2012 5:21am EDT

(Reuters) - As light fades on the shores of Sydney Harbour, a group of men
finish building a traditional aboriginal canoe using bark from eucalyptus
trees. Smoke smothers the strips of bark as heat from a fire below curves
the wood into the shape of a canoe.

Just offshore massive container ships and multi-million dollar pleasure
yachts anchor on the harbour, a world away from the days when Aborigines
paddled bark canoes across the same body of water.

But now, Australia's Aborigines are trying to revive the ancient skill of
canoe building, known as Nawi, and pass the knowledge on to younger men in
a bid to instil cultural pride.

"It's a big part of their story. The canoe culture is something they've
lost," David Payne, canoe builder and curator at the Australian Maritime
Museum, told Reuters.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:42:33 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:42:33 -0700
Subject: Elders in Peruvian Andes Help Interpret Climate Changes (fwd link)
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Elders in Peruvian Andes Help Interpret Climate Changes

Written by Milagros Salazar
Monday, 04 June 2012 11:06

(IPS) - A unique response to the challenge of global warming is happening
in rural areas of Peru, where a network of indigenous elders is working out
how to adjust weather forecasts in the light of climate change, while
taking measures to safeguard their crops.

"Before, things happened at the right time. Now, strange things are going
on with the climate." This is the kind of comment that is heard frequently
in dozens of rural communities throughout the departments (provinces) of
Puno, Cuzco and Apur?mac in the country?s southern Andean highlands.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun  4 19:50:42 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:50:42 -0700
Subject: 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks
 Them) (fwd
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Greetings Nieves, nice to meet you and welcome to ILAT.

Phil Cash Cash
UofA, Tucson, AZ

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Yolanda Payano <nievespi14 at yahoo.es> wrote:

> Hi, my name is Nieves. I speak JAQARU language, which is spoken in AIZA,
> COLCA  and TUPE, in Lima - Per?.
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:07:56 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:07:56 -0700
Subject: Translation Tools Could Save Less-Used Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.170756.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Translation Tools Could Save Less-Used Languages

Languages that aren't used online risk being left behind. New translation
technology from Google and Microsoft could help them catch up.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012
BY TOM SIMONITE
US

Sometimes you may feel like there's nothing worth reading on the Web, but
at least there's plenty of material you can read and understand. Millions
of people around the world, in contrast, speak languages that are still
barely represented online, despite widespread Internet access and improving
translation technology.

Web giants Microsoft and Google are trying to change that with new
translation technology aimed at languages that are being left behind?or
perhaps even being actively killed off?by the Web. Although both companies
have worked on translation technology for years, they have, until now,
focused on such major languages of international trade as English, Spanish,
and Chinese.

Microsoft and Google's existing translation tools, which are free, are a
triumph of big data. Instead of learning as a human translator would, by
studying the rules of different languages, a translation tool's algorithms
learn how to translate one language into another by statistically comparing
thousands or millions of online documents that have been translated by
humans.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:09:52 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:09:52 -0700
Subject: Indigenous LOTE program saves dying language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.170952.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

6 June, 2012 11:04 AM AEST

Indigenous LOTE program saves dying language

By Alice Roberts
AUS

Speaking to one another is something we take for granted but for some
people their language is slowly dying.

The community of Woorabinda, 200 kilometres west of Rockhampton, is paving
a new way for education with their Indigenous LOTE program.

The program is teaching primary school students the Ghungalu dialect.

Chairman of the Woorabinda LOTE Program Shemmie Leisha is a Ghungalu
descendent and one of only six Australians who can speak his family's
language.

"I see us as the Ghungalu's leading the way for other language groups
because Woorabinda is made up of 52 different language groups," he says.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:12:31 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:12:31 -0700
Subject: Stop, revive and survive (fwd link)
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Stop, revive and survive

BY: GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN
From: The Australian June 06, 2012 12:00AM

LINGUICIDE (language killing) and glottophagy (language eating) have made
Australia the unlucky country. With globalisation, homogenisation and
Coca-colonisation there will be more and more groups added to the forlorn
club of the lost-heritage peoples.

Language reclamation will become increasingly relevant as people seek to
recover their cultural autonomy, empower their spiritual and intellectual
sovereignty, and improve wellbeing.

There are various ethical, aesthetic and utilitarian benefits of language
revival - for example, historical justice, diversity and employability,
respectively. There is an urgent need to offer perspicacious insights
relevant to language reclamation.

Revival linguistics is a new discipline, being established at Adelaide,
studying comparatively and systematically the universal constraints, global
mechanisms and local peculiarities and idiosyncrasies apparent in revival
attempts across various sociological backgrounds, all over the world.
Revival linguistics combines scientific studies of native language
acquisition and foreign language learning. After all, language reclamation
is the most extreme case of second-language learning.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:33:01 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:33:01 -0700
Subject: Brazil's Indigenous Awa Tribe At Risk (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.173301.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 Brazil's Indigenous Awa Tribe At Risk
[image: Brazil Indigenous Awa Tribe]
In this Nov. 2011 photo released in 2012 by Survival International, Awa
Indians point their bow and arrows in Maranhao state, Brazil. (AP
Photo/Survival International)

By MARCO SIBAJA<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/brazils-indigeneous-awa-tribe_n_1574374.html?ref=topbar#>
  06/06/12 12:05 PM ET Associated Press [image: AP]

BRASILIA, Brazil -- For generations, the Awa lived far from the rest of
humanity, picking fruit, hunting pigs and monkeys and following the
seasons' rhythms in their patch of the lush Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

Then the rest of the world found the Awa. Loggers and ranchers came,
cutting into the tribe's ancestral lands in search of profits. So did a
rail line where trains shuttle tons of iron ore through the forest, from
mines in the heart of the Amazon to Atlantic Ocean ports, with much of it
headed for Chinese steel mills.

The threat to the Awa grew so grave that it caught the attention of the
British-based indigenous rights group Survival International, which
designated them "the world's most endangered tribe" and made their
preservation its top campaign priority this year.

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From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU  Thu Jun  7 00:54:33 2012
From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:54:33 -1000
Subject: 2nd Call for Proposals:  3rd International Conference on Language
 Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.145433.1000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


Aloha!

The 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), ?Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,? will be held February 28-March 3, 2013, at the Hawai?i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai?i at M?noa campus.

By popular demand, the 3rd ICLDC will be a full day longer than the previous two conferences. The conference program will feature an integrated series of Master Class workshops. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai?i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference (March 4-5).

This year?s conference theme, ?Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,? intends to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of language documentation and the need to share methods for documenting the many aspects of human knowledge that language encodes. We aim to build on the strong momentum created by the 1st and 2nd ICLDCs to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich records that can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech communities. We hope you will join us.

For more information, visit our conference website:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2013/


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Topics

We especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme of the interdisciplinary nature of language documentation. Language encodes knowledge from many facets of life: kinship, science, taxonomy, material culture, spirituality, music, and others. We encourage presentations on documenting these topics through the lens of endangered languages.

We are also seeking abstracts on the science of documentation and revitalization. Documentation is usually portrayed as a means of collecting language data, and revitalization is generally seen primarily as a kind of applied work directly benefiting communities. However, each of those domains is a genuine area of research, and we welcome presentations that treat documentation and revitalization not merely as activities, but also as domains requiring theorization in their own right.

In addition to the topics above, we warmly welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited to:

Archiving matters
Community experiences of revitalization
Data management
Ethical issues
Language planning
Lexicography and reference grammar design
Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
Orthography design
Teaching/learning small languages
Technology in documentation ? methods and pitfalls
Topics in areal language documentation
Training in documentation methods ? beyond the university
Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies 
 
Abstract submission

Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region discussed. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint (co-authored) proposal.

Abstracts are due by August 31, 2012, with notification of acceptance by October 1, 2012. 

We ask for abstracts of no more than 400 words for online publication so that conference participants will have a good idea of the content of your paper, and a 50-word summary for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic.

We will only be accepting proposal submissions for papers or posters. We will not be accepting any proposal submission for panel or colloquia presentations this year.  Please note that the Advisory Committee may ask that some abstracts submitted as conference talks be presented as posters instead.

Selected authors will be invited to submit their conference papers to the journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication.

To submit an online proposal, visit our Call for Proposals page:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2013/call.html

 

Scholarships

To help defray travel expenses to come and present at the conference, scholarships of up to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best abstracts by (i) students and/or (ii) members of an endangered language community who are actively working to document their heritage language and who are not employed by a college or university. If you are eligible and wish to be considered for a scholarship, please select the appropriate "Yes" button on the proposal submission form.


Presentation formats

Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of question time.

Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Poster presentations will run during the lunch breaks.



Questions?  Feel free to contact us at icldc at hawaii.edu


3rd ICLDC Organizing Committee






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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun  7 04:05:39 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:05:39 -0700
Subject: Native American language advocate dies (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.210539.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Native American language advocate dies;
Tom Parsons spent years promoting teaching of Indian languages

Grant Scott-Goforth/The Times-Standard
Posted:   05/19/2012 02:35:42 AM PDT
US

Tom Parsons, who helped develop local Native American language programs as
the director of Humboldt State University's Community Development Center,
died last week at the age of 88 in Atlanta.

Tom Parsons' dedication to community development continues to have an
impact on the Indian Community Development Center and Indian language
studies on the North Coast.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun  8 19:22:23 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:22:23 -0700
Subject: Unesco works to preserve state=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=languages
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Unesco works to preserve state?s languages

by Conny Banji, Philip Wong, Jane Moh and Joanna Yap,
reporters at theborneopost.com.
Posted on June 9, 2012, Saturday

[inset: Not many of the Bidayuh and Kelabit speak their languages nowadays.
This is due mainly to interracial marriages. They either use Bahasa
Malaysia or English at home now. Datuk Fatimah Abdullah, Minister of
Welfare, Women and Family Development]

SIBU: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(Unesco) is currently working on two projects in the state to prevent the
Kelabit and Bidayuh languages from disappearing.

The projects under the Endangered Languages programme aim to assist and
protect dying native languages.

Read more:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun  8 20:28:31 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:28:31 -0700
Subject: Open Source Digital Publishing
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUN.2012.132831.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi ILAT,

Take note of a open source digital publishing platform: Booktype.

http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/

It is a (free) program for creating ebooks and preparing them for
distribution.  This might prove useful for language programs seeking a way
maximize the manner of distribution of their linguistic/language
publications.  Maximum impact, no cost.

Phil
UofA
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From jieikobu at HOTMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 12 13:15:13 2012
From: jieikobu at HOTMAIL.COM (Derksen Jacob)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:15:13 +0000
Subject: "Teens sign up to learn dying language"
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.131513.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


I'd like to think the editors of the Victoria Times-Colonist could have come up with a better headline but at least the subject is getting some attention. 
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Teens+sign+learn+dying+language/6768070/story.html
 
  		 	   		  
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 17:47:46 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:47:46 -0700
Subject: Three Inuit among NAHO=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=last batch of
 aboriginal  role models (fwd link)
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NEWS: Around the Arctic June 11, 2012 - 10:00 am

Three Inuit among NAHO?s last batch of aboriginal role models
Jesse Apsaktaun, Dina Koonoo and David Dupuis are among the 2012 role models

NUNATSIAQ NEWS

Hard worker, motivated, honest: that?s how the National Aboriginal Health
Organization describes the 2012 aboriginal role model, Jesse Apsaktaun, 28,
of Kugaaruk.

Born and raised in Kugaaruk, Apsaktaun graduated from the Nunavut Teacher
Education Program, and, according to a NAHO biography,  ?has not let
anything hold him back.?

Apsaktaun, who now works as an adult educator at Nunavut Arctic College,
also finds time to sit on committees for various cultural activities, such
as teaching people how to build kayaks.

And Apsaktaun volunteers as a minor hockey coach, serves as chairman of the
youth committee and ?takes his role as husband and father to heart,? NAHO
says.

A fluent speaker of Inuktitut, Apsaktaun is ?a strong advocate for Inuit
languages and takes the time to teach those who want to learn,? working
closely with elders and youth.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 17:49:55 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:49:55 -0700
Subject: Language council seen as hope for Native culture (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.104955.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Language council seen as hope for Native culture

Posted: June 11, 2012 - 8:46am
By Pat Forgey
Morris News Service -- Alaska, Juneau Empire

A new Alaska Native Language Council has the potential to bring threatened
languages back from the brink of extinction, say experts in the field.

"Our hope is that we can really create living languages, and advocate for
the importance of the languages," said Lance Twitchell, an assistant
professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast.

Alaska's Native languages are in various states of decline, with only about
200 fluent Tlingit speakers left, while there are more than 10,000 speakers
of Central Yup'ik.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 17:52:49 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:52:49 -0700
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.105249.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to
languages than those that are wide.

Zo? Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they
came from a continent that was broader in an east?west direction than
north?south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns,
Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this
'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in
climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more
similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means
that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture
and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along
lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines
of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California
used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed
the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in
147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked
at the difference between Chile, which has a long north?south axis, and
Turkey, which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 18:04:03 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:04:03 -0700
Subject: Western Researchers Finally Appreciating Wisdom of Elders When It
 Comes to Mother Earth (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.110403.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Western Researchers Finally Appreciating Wisdom of Elders When It Comes to
Mother Earth

By Mary Annette Pember June 11, 2012
US

Indigenous Peoples have a deep and profound scientific understanding of
creation, of the duality and tension that holds the created world in place.
Mainstream science and academia can?t begin to understand and convey the
knowledge that Indigenous Peoples carry in their DNA. We all come into the
world with this knowledge, but Indigenous Peoples still carry the knowledge
in their blood memory.?

That?s according to Renee Gurneau, Red Lake Ojibwe, who spoke at the recent
Rights of Mother Earth: Restoring Indigenous Life Ways of Responsibility
and Respect conference at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence,
Kansas.

Increasingly, Western scientists and academics seem to be recognizing the
wisdom of interconnectedness and respect for life that has long been
expressed by Indigenous Peoples. The challenges of addressing climate
change are motivating mainstream scientists to look for solutions outside
of their traditional knowledge base. The following quote, for example, is
an apt summation of the essence of indigenous wisdom: ?We have no greater
concern than the future of this planet and the life upon it.?

Read more:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/06/11/western-researchers-finally-appreciating-wisdom-of-elders-when-it-comes-to-mother-earth-117479
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 12 18:49:51 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:49:51 -0700
Subject: Yati Dictionary app
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.114951.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

ILAT,

fyi, I did not realize the The Yati Dictionary App (containing over 1300
words and phrases in Tlicho Dene language) is a "free" app.  Cool.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yati/id525154015?mt=8

Phil
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From saxon at UVIC.CA  Tue Jun 12 20:14:14 2012
From: saxon at UVIC.CA (Leslie Saxon)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:14:14 -0700
Subject: Yati Dictionary app
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RyUw__ssK+VrGh-02HDba13OJOUQ_NOBO8FKPJcSXx7=w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.131414.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Thanks for this, Phil. The development crew would be glad for comments, suggestions, problem reports to help with the next version. You can send comments to me at saxon at uvic.ca or to yati at uvic.ca.

Leslie Saxon
Linguistics
University of Victoria


On 12-06-12 11:49 AM, "Phillip E Cash Cash" <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU<mailto:cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>> wrote:

ILAT,

fyi, I did not realize the The Yati Dictionary App (containing over 1300 words and phrases in Tlicho Dene language) is a "free" app.  Cool.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yati/id525154015?mt=8

Phil


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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Tue Jun 12 21:24:17 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:24:17 -0400
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RzO=C9oAFaU-RrfcwoHmyQLozH4iH38TBiKrCm1PNZdLA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.172417.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

So...do you have an opinion on this and if so, I would appreciate reading
it....or anyone else...particularly indigenous people on the
list....probably worded wrong but not meant to be exclusive or
chauvinistic(not a gender statement)...
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  ?in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper ? 
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains:
repressive force.? SubCommander Marcos...
 

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: June-12-12 1:53 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)


How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to
languages than those that are wide.

Zo? Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they
came from a continent that was broader in an east?west direction than
north?south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns,
Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this
'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in
climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more
similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means
that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture
and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along
lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines
of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California
used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed
the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in
147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked at
the difference between Chile, which has a long north?south axis, and Turkey,
which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808


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From weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 12 23:17:57 2012
From: weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM (Phil Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:17:57 -0700
Subject: Language council seen as hope for Native culture (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RwLfC6bvzV_z9=eS8AOmrFg_uWb43oT8Ywa9zU_39O5kw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.161757.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Language council sounds awesome!

P.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Language council seen as hope for Native culture
>
> Posted: June 11, 2012 - 8:46am
> By Pat Forgey
> Morris News Service -- Alaska, Juneau Empire
>
> A new Alaska Native Language Council has the potential to bring threatened
> languages back from the brink of extinction, say experts in the field.
>
> "Our hope is that we can really create living languages, and advocate for
> the importance of the languages," said Lance Twitchell, an assistant
> professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast.
>
> Alaska's Native languages are in various states of decline, with only
> about 200 fluent Tlingit speakers left, while there are more than 10,000
> speakers of Central Yup'ik.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-06-11/language-council-seen-as-hope-for-native-culture
>
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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Wed Jun 13 09:23:59 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:23:59 +0100
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
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Jared Diamond's "theory" amounts to nothing more complex that "AAA high schools will have stronger football teams than small schools." You can't compare Mongolia and Angola unless you control for population density. They found some "correlations," but are they statistically significant? What is the standard deviation? How about controlling for dictatorial regimes that squash minorities or governments that perpetuate myths of nationalist homogeneity? The more I learn about Mongolia, the more diversity (linguistic and cultural) I seem to find there, especially in the mountainous northern regions. All that is ignored in official stats.

How can Nature publish such drivel?

-Alex

On 12 Jun 2012, at 6:52 pm, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to languages than those that are wide.

Zo? Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they came from a continent that was broader in an east?west direction than north?south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this 'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in 147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked at the difference between Chile, which has a long north?south axis, and Turkey, which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808


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From Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA  Wed Jun 13 17:35:15 2012
From: Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA (Dawn McInnes)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:35:15 -0600
Subject: Full professorship
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.113515.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Leslie:
 
Congratulations on your full professorship!
 
Dawn

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology on behalf of Leslie Saxon
Sent: Tue 12/06/2012 2:14 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Yati Dictionary app


Thanks for this, Phil. The development crew would be glad for comments, suggestions, problem reports to help with the next version. You can send comments to me at saxon at uvic.ca or to yati at uvic.ca.

Leslie Saxon
Linguistics
University of Victoria


On 12-06-12 11:49 AM, "Phillip E Cash Cash" <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU> wrote:

ILAT,

fyi, I did not realize the The Yati Dictionary App (containing over 1300 words and phrases in Tlicho Dene language) is a "free" app.  Cool.  
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yati/id525154015?mt=8

Phil



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From donaghy at HAWAII.EDU  Wed Jun 13 23:41:44 2012
From: donaghy at HAWAII.EDU (Keola Donaghy)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:41:44 -1000
Subject: Prison inmates to transcribe Hawaiian newspapers
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.134144.1000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) - A large effort to put 60,000 pages of historical Hawaiian newspapers online is getting volunteers from an unlikely source - Hawaii's prison system.

Organizers and prison officials are pitching the program as a way for incarcerated women to reconnect with Hawaii's rich history and culture - to more fully understand why they see the world the way they do.

Warden Mark Patterson of the Women's Community Correctional Center says most of the inmates there suffered some kind of traumatic event in their lives before committing the crime that got them to prison. He says transcribing the newspapers will help the women make sense of deep-seated anger and other emotions they may not fully understand.

About 30 inmates have signed on to help transcribe newspapers from 1834 to 1948.

http://www.khon2.com/news/local/story/kailua-newspapers-prison-inmates-transcribe/wUyMnM-z9k6UE-v65ioHng.cspx



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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 14 06:28:44 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:28:44 -0700
Subject: The ears of the nation turn to Tasmania to save a language -
 introducing "Tassie black fella talk" (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.232844.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The ears of the nation turn to Tasmania to save a language - introducing
"Tassie black fella talk"

14/06/2012 , 8:41 AM by Damien Brown
AUS

The ears of the nation have unexpectedly turned to Tasmania in an effort to
save a language.

A Federal Government hearing has recently heard that many Aboriginal
languages are in danger of extinction with just 20 to 30 considered
''viable''.

Access full article below:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/tasmania/2012/06/the-ears-of-the-nation-turns-to-tasmania-to-save-a-language-introducing-tassie-black-fella-talk.html
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 14 06:31:05 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:31:05 -0700
Subject: Karri-borlbme kun-wok ~ Learning language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.233105.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Karri-borlbme kun-wok ~ Learning language

June 11, 2012 ? 12:32 am, by wamut
AUS

Greg Dickson writes:

We?re very happy to spread the word about a great new initiative from
Western Arnhem Land that gives us all the chance to learn a bit of an
Aboriginal language: Bininj Gunwok*. Through the Bininj Gunwok Language
Project, you can now subscribe to an email list and receive regular bits of
vocab, grammatical info and more, in order to teach more people about
Bininj Gunwok ? one of the nation?s strongest Indigenous languages spoken
by a few thousand people across Western Arnhem Land.

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http://blogs.crikey.com.au/fullysic/2012/06/11/karri-borlbme-kun-wok-learning-language/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 14 20:50:45 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:50:45 -0700
Subject: B.C. Language Initiative (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUN.2012.135045.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 B.C. Language Initiative
*The B.C. Language Initiative:* supports projects to revitalize British
Columbia First Nations languages through documentation, immersion programs,
materials and curriculum development, traditional and cultural programming,
and community collaboration. First Nations communities and organizations
are eligible to submit proposals.

Deadline: *June 22,2012

*More info, applications forms, and guides available below:
http://www.fpcc.ca/language/Programs/BCLI.aspx


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 14 22:06:02 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:06:02 -0700
Subject: Is Cantonese an endangered language? (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUN.2012.150602.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Is Cantonese an endangered language?

By Michelle da Silva, June 14, 2012
CA

An article recently published in the China Post claimed that due to the
widespread use of Mandarin in Hong Kong over the last decade, Cantonese is
a dying language. Since Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain in
1997, more than 160 primary schools have switched over from teaching
students in Cantonese to Mandarin. According to the article, more parents
are speaking to their children in English and Mandarin, in hopes that it
will help their kids enter an international school. Also, the number of
visitors from Mainland China to Hong Kong has increased, and many
businesses have made it a priority that staff greet customers in Mandarin.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 15 06:33:38 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:33:38 -0700
Subject: Documenting Endangered Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUN.2012.233338.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 Documenting Endangered Languages
  Division of Preservation and Access

*Receipt Deadline September 15, 2012* *for Projects Beginning May 2013*
 Brief Summary

The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program is a partnership between
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered
human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of
the 6000-7000 currently used languages, this effort aims also to exploit
advances in information technology. Awards support fieldwork and other
activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered
languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples,
and databases. DEL funding is available in the form of one- to three-year
project grants as well as fellowships for six to twelve months. At least
half the available funding will be awarded to projects involving fieldwork.

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http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/documenting-endangered-languages
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 15 18:47:53 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:47:53 -0700
Subject: Vanishing Languages (fwd link)
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Vanishing Languages

Published: July 2012
US

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Vanishing Voices

One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the
roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as
communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or
Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?

By Russ Rymer
Photograph by Lynn Johnson

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 16 00:38:36 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:38:36 -0700
Subject: Yakama tribe elder becomes U of O's oldest-ever graduate (fwd
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Yakama tribe elder becomes U of O's oldest-ever graduate

By KVAL News & KIMA News Published: Jun 15, 2012 at 2:09 PM PDT
US

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Virginia Beavert

EUGENE, Ore. - The University of Oregon will honor the school's oldest-ever
graduate during commencement ceremonies Monday.

Virginia Beavert, 90, an elder in Washington?s Yakama tribe, will receive
her doctorate in linguistics before defending her dissertation next month.

Beavert speaks six native languages, has written a Yakama Sahaptin
dictionary, and is currently working on a second edition.

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From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 16 05:25:59 2012
From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike))
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:25:59 +0000
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.052559.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Well, if you take out all sorts of things like mountains, oceans, and other obstacles to population movement,
the differences between ecological zones generally makes it easier to move laterally than vertically. There
is clear evidence in the English invasion-settlement of North America, settlers tended to move westward
into ecologically compatible zones -- you can't plant cotton in North Dakota, nor grow wheat very successfully
in Alabama. But the Romans moved from lower Italy to northern Britain, the Egyptians consolidated the
length of the Nile, and then went north as far as Syria (but not east or west), the Austronesians (depending
on whose story you accept), may have spread from Taiwan all the way south to Indonesia before turning
eastward, and the Uto-Aztecans spread in one direction as far south as Guatemala and as far north as Utah.
But Algonkians covered the whole breadth of Canada and even into northern California, as well as down
the east coast to Virginia. Simplistic ideas of taking a political boundary (usually a late one) and using that
as a boundary for measuring diversity, are just that -- ignorantly simplistic, no matter how sophisticated the
mathematic mumbo-jumbo is.

    Rudy Troike
    University of Arizona

ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
________________________________
From: Rolland Nadjiwon [mikinakn at SHAW.CA]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)

So...do you have an opinion on this and if so, I would appreciate reading it....or anyone else...particularly indigenous people on the list....probably worded wrong but not meant to be exclusive or chauvinistic(not a gender statement)...

wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  ?in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper ?
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains: repressive force.? SubCommander Marcos...


________________________________
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: June-12-12 1:53 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)

How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to languages than those that are wide.

Zo? Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they came from a continent that was broader in an east?west direction than north?south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this 'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in 147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked at the difference between Chile, which has a long north?south axis, and Turkey, which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 16 07:46:47 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:46:47 -0700
Subject: Endangered Aramaic Language Taught in Two Villages,
 Two Sides of War (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.004647.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

June 14, 2012

Endangered Aramaic Language Taught in Two Villages, Two Sides of War

The issue of education in Israel and the Palestinian territories is usually
fraught with settlement building, government oppression, and conflict
stricken schoolchildren. Ancient languages seem all but irrelevant in this
political hot zone, where Arabic and Hebrew are pitted against each other
in a media war of their representative religions. Nevertheless, Aramaic has
come to attention because the endangered language is receiving an
educational rebirth in two of the region?s villages.

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From hardman at UFL.EDU  Sat Jun 16 13:47:49 2012
From: hardman at UFL.EDU (Dr. MJ Hardman)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:47:49 -0400
Subject: Yakama tribe elder becomes U of O's oldest-ever graduate (fwd
 link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RzzakqrHmBZ-C-ADVMbzJpe6Sa4vpjOWuq2uQuH2P07HA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.094749.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Congratulations!  What marvelous news.  May there yet be many seasons in her
path.  MJ

On 6/15/12 8:38 PM, "Phillip E Cash Cash" <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
wrote:

> Yakama tribe elder becomes U of O's oldest-ever graduate
> 
> By KVAL News & KIMA News Published: Jun 15, 2012 at 2:09 PM PDT
> US
> 
> 
> Virginia Beavert
> 
> EUGENE, Ore. - The University of Oregon will honor the school's oldest-ever
> graduate during commencement ceremonies Monday.
> 
> Virginia Beavert, 90, an elder in Washington?s Yakama tribe, will receive her
> doctorate in linguistics before defending her dissertation next month.
> 
> Beavert speaks six native languages, has written a Yakama Sahaptin dictionary,
> and is currently working on a second edition.
> 
> Access full article below:
> http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/Yakama-tribe-elder-becomes-U-of-Os-oldest-eve
> r-graduate-159240715.html
> 

Dr. MJ Hardman
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per?
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/ 

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 16 19:42:45 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:42:45 -0700
Subject: Aleut elder Nicolai Galaktionoff helped keep Unangan language,
 culture vital (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.124245.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Aleut elder Nicolai Galaktionoff helped keep Unangan language, culture vital
 Jillian Rogers | The Dutch Harbor Fisherman | Jun 15, 2012
US

 <http://www.alaskadispatch.com/sites/default/files/images/topic/rural-alaska/galaktionoff-nicolai-facing-beach.jpg>


When Nicolai Galaktionoff passed away last month, a piece of Alaska left
with him.

Galaktionoff, 87, died in Unalaska on May 21, and though he?ll be
remembered for many great accomplishments, perhaps he was most known for
his passionate commitment to keeping his heritage alive through language
and subsistence living.

?He taught the language to the younger generation, including myself,? said
Galaktionoff?s eldest son, Joe. ?He taught many about our culture.?

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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Sun Jun 17 03:03:04 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:03:04 -0400
Subject: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <4E2A23DC35FEA141BD0A563D12E2814CF38524@SAWYERISLAND.catnet.arizona.edu>
Message-ID: <SAT.16.JUN.2012.230304.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Thanks Rudy...with a different approach to the supposed information, I
arrived at the same conclusions you make with your final statement. The
checkerboard of juridical boundaries has over whelmed the pre-colonial
patterns of movement and relationships of peoples and cultures, at least, in
the Americas. Most of the old stories tell of people moving north to south
and vice versa. Groups of people would go South travelling for up to three
years or so and return with parrot feathers and cocoa laves for medicine.
Also, the major migrations of birds, buffalo, butterflies and etc. were and
still are North South movements.The people moved North and South following
these migrations which were sustenance. The East West movement is probably
postcolonial and probably as a direct result of the fur trades and the
European passionate indulgence in a search for a passage to the wealth of
the Orient.
Forth years ago a Cherokee and Anthropologist friend of mine would tease me
that civilization grew North out of Mexico and colonization has not changed
that. He would tell me to not be surprised when some morning I wake up and
there is a Taco Bell being built up across the street. We would laugh about
this but I have watches how the adopted language of Spanish/Mexican has
moved, in a 40 year period, across the American/Canadian borders into
Canada. He has long since passed and our daughter married a Spanish American
youth from Tucson and my two eldest Grandchildren are Spanish American,
Apache, Potowatomi, Odawa and Ojibwa...there is also some European but that
certainly keeps getting watered down. And now, my Great Granddaughter, 9
months, is Spanish American, Apache, Cree, Odawa, Potowatomi and Ojibwa.
Again there is a watered down mitochondrial connection to some
Europeans...there may be a bit of French or English or maybe Scottish. I am
often complimented by having Spanish/Mexican people assuming I am Mexican
and speaking to me in Spanish. That I cannot, usually embarrasses both of
us....so, before I get off topic, I think there is as much or even more
practical evidence to indicate the greater movement on a North South axis.
Numbers can be skewed by any bookie science but the major North South
highways being built on old Indian trails or along migration paths of
buffalo and other wildlife is much more a part of the story of the earth
itself. 
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  ?in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper ? 
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains:
repressive force.? SubCommander Marcos...
 

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike)
Sent: June-16-12 1:26 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)


Well, if you take out all sorts of things like mountains, oceans, and other
obstacles to population movement, 
the differences between ecological zones generally makes it easier to move
laterally than vertically. There 
is clear evidence in the English invasion-settlement of North America,
settlers tended to move westward 
into ecologically compatible zones -- you can't plant cotton in North
Dakota, nor grow wheat very successfully 
in Alabama. But the Romans moved from lower Italy to northern Britain, the
Egyptians consolidated the 
length of the Nile, and then went north as far as Syria (but not east or
west), the Austronesians (depending 
on whose story you accept), may have spread from Taiwan all the way south to
Indonesia before turning 
eastward, and the Uto-Aztecans spread in one direction as far south as
Guatemala and as far north as Utah. 
But Algonkians covered the whole breadth of Canada and even into northern
California, as well as down 
the east coast to Virginia. Simplistic ideas of taking a political boundary
(usually a late one) and using that 
as a boundary for measuring diversity, are just that -- ignorantly
simplistic, no matter how sophisticated the 
mathematic mumbo-jumbo is. 

    Rudy Troike
    University of Arizona

ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
  _____  

From: Rolland Nadjiwon [mikinakn at SHAW.CA]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)


So...do you have an opinion on this and if so, I would appreciate reading
it....or anyone else...particularly indigenous people on the
list....probably worded wrong but not meant to be exclusive or
chauvinistic(not a gender statement)...
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  ?in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper ? 
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains:
repressive force.? SubCommander Marcos...
 

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: June-12-12 1:53 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] How geography shapes cultural diversity (fwd link)


How geography shapes cultural diversity

Study offers evidence that long countries give better protection to
languages than those that are wide.

Zo? Corbyn
11 June 2012

One reason that Eurasian civilizations dominated the globe is because they
came from a continent that was broader in an east?west direction than
north?south, claimed geographer Jared Diamond in his famous 1997 book Guns,
Germs and Steel. Now, a modelling study has found evidence to support this
'continental axis theory'.

Continents that span narrower bands of latitude have less variation in
climate, which means a set of plants and animals that are adapted to more
similar conditions. That is an advantage, says Diamond, because it means
that agricultural innovations are able to diffuse more easily, with culture
and ideas following suit. As a result, Diamond's hypothesis predicts, along
lines of latitude there will be more cultural homogeneity than along lines
of longitude.

To test that prediction, researchers at Stanford University in California
used language persistence as a proxy for cultural diversity, and analysed
the percentage of historically indigenous languages that remain in use in
147 countries today relative to their shape. For example, the team looked at
the difference between Chile, which has a long north?south axis, and Turkey,
which has a wider axis running east to west.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/how-geography-shapes-cultural-diversity-1.10808


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 02:49:28 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:49:28 -0700
Subject: listserv migration and ILAT...
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.194928.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings ILAT!

First a warm welcome to all the new subscribers: welcome!

Second, ILAT as a "listserv" within the Listserv framework (i.e. mailing
lists) is being phased out at the University of Arizona.  As all of you
well know, ILAT is a part of the UofA listserv system.  So we will
(voluntarily) plan to migrate to a new mailing list system starting in
July.  This email is simply an advance notice to inform you of this pending
migration.  We have several options we are exploring at the moment.  The
first and possibly the best options is:

ilat at endangeredlanguages.com

This is presently in the works and it looks quite promising.  We are also
examining the recommendations of the UofA listserv for additional options.
In any case, we will continue to retain the ILAT (Indigenous Languages and
Technology) identity.  The advantages of using a more up-to-date system is
numerous but the greatest need for ILAT is to have a searchable archive.
Right now, searching ILAT is a command-based search query which is fairly
"old school" and cumbersome.

Naturally, you will hear more of this (and in greater detail) in the coming
months!  But in the mean time continue to enjoy the fascinating discussions
here on ILAT.  Btw, just a nice little tidbit of trivia, ILAT turns 10 yrs
old in October!

Phil Cash Cash (Cayuse/Nez Perce)
ILAT List Manager
University of Arizona
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:20:02 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:20:02 -0700
Subject: Parkes Wiradjuri group to feature in ABC documentary (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.202002.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Parkes Wiradjuri group to feature in ABC documentary

18 Jun, 2012 09:28 AM
AUS

Parkes students are to be featured in an ABC documentary based on the local
indigenous language of the Wiradjuri.

Members of the Parkes Wiradjuri Languages Group welcomed Suzi Taylor from
ABC Open Albury, and Faith Baisden from the Eastern States Aboriginal
languages group, to a special sitting held at the Parkes Public School.

Suzy and Faith were in Parkes to film a documentary and promotional video,
highlighting the exceptional work of groups such as the local Parkes
Wiradjuri team in bringing Aboriginal languages to life within their
communities.

Access full article below:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:23:24 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:23:24 -0700
Subject: FirstVoices Chat app for First Nations languages hits the iPhone
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.202324.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

FirstVoices Chat app for First Nations languages hits the iPhone

by Stephen Hui on June 18, 2012 at 4:59 PM

http://www.straight.com/article-713211/vancouver/firstvoices-chat-app-first-nations-languages-hits-iphone

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From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:24:48 -0700
Subject: Te reo leads the way (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.202448.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Te reo leads the way

CHARLES ANDERSON
Last updated 05:00 17/06/2012
NZ

Efforts to promote te reo Maori are seen as the international benchmark for
indigenous language revival, according to a visiting expert.

While the Maori Language Commission laments the position te reo is in,
Professor Kenneth Rehg said in Hawaii his linguistics students looked to
the Maori effort for inspiration.

"The United States looks to Hawaii, and Hawaii looks to New Zealand. Maori
revitalisation has set the model. It has gathered attention around the
world."

Rehg was recently in New Zealand to speak about the worldwide death of
languages. He said as a linguist there was no more noble cause than trying
to save them.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7116610/Te-reo-leads-the-way
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:27:12 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:27:12 -0700
Subject: With Casino Revenues, Tribes Push to Preserve Languages,
 and Cultures (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.202712.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

With Casino Revenues, Tribes Push to Preserve Languages, and Cultures

By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: June 16, 2012 29 Comments

COARSEGOLD, Calif. ? Inside a classroom of some 20 adults and children
studying the language of their tribe, a university linguist pointed out
that Chukchansi has no ?r? sound and that two consonants never follow each
other. The comments seemed to stir forgotten childhood memories in Holly
Wyatt, 69, the only fluent speaker present, who was serving as a living
reference book.

?My mother used to call Richard ?Lichad,? ? Ms. Wyatt blurted out,
referring to a relative. ?It just popped into my head.?

Using revenues from their casino here in the Sierra Nevada foothills, the
Chukchansi Indians recently pledged $1 million over five years to
California State University, Fresno, to help preserve their unwritten
language. Linguists from the university will create a dictionary, assemble
texts and help teach the language at weekly courses like the one on a
recent evening.

Access full article below:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 19 03:31:21 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:31:21 -0700
Subject: FirstVoices Chat (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.203121.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

FirstVoices Chat
By First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council

Description

FirstVoices Chat is a multilingual texting app with keypads serving over
100 Indigenous languages. The app was developed in response to First Nation
youth who want to communicate via social media in their own languages. Most
Indigenous writing systems use unique characters previously unavailable in
mobile technologies.

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Go to iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/firstvoices-chat/id533685251
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From weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 19 03:33:57 2012
From: weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM (Phil Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:33:57 -0700
Subject: FirstVoices Chat (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RypX_=+ncqNt1awDiY_FCXWvQO2+Ra--MU3RG_wYXcTBA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.203357.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

ILAT,

I would like to kindly request that a ILAT "user" post a mini-review, first
impressions of this app!  Thnx.

Phil



On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> FirstVoices Chat
> By First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council
>
> Description
>
> FirstVoices Chat is a multilingual texting app with keypads serving over
> 100 Indigenous languages. The app was developed in response to First Nation
> youth who want to communicate via social media in their own languages. Most
> Indigenous writing systems use unique characters previously unavailable in
> mobile technologies.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
> Go to iTunes:
>
> http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/firstvoices-chat/id533685251
>
>
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From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:58:34 -0700
Subject: The Surui Cultural Map (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.205834.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The Surui Cultural
Map<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/surui-cultural-map.html>
 June 18, 2012 at 10:25 AM
US
   *This week we're at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development <http://www.uncsd2012.org/>. We**'re sharing a series of posts
about our activities at the conference **on the Green
Blog<http://googlegreenblog.blogspot.com/>;
in this cross-post we've gone into more detail about one announcement
taking place there. -Ed.*

This week at the Rio+20 conference, the Surui tribe of the Brazilian
Amazon<http://www.paiter.org/>are launching their Surui Cultural Map
on Google Earth. This represents the
culmination of a unique five-year collaboration between the Surui people
and Google, which began in June 2007 when Chief Almir Surui first visited
Google<http://google-latlong.blogspot.com.br/2007/06/trading-bow-and-arrow-for-laptop.html>and
proposed a partnership. The story of that visit, and the remarkable
project that followed, are told in a new short documentary also launching
here at Rio+20:* ?Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops: Carbon and Culture.?


*Access full article below:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/surui-cultural-map.html
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jun 20 13:17:41 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:17:41 -0500
Subject: teaching code
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.081741.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings,

Just a quick note for those that teach coding.  Take a look at Mozilla's
Thimble!

https://thimble.webmaker.org/en-US/

:)

Phil
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jun 20 13:21:42 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:21:42 -0500
Subject: First Nations youth bring vitality to languages: Regional Health
 Survey (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.082142.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

June 19, 2012 5:05 PM

First Nations youth bring vitality to languages: Regional Health Survey

OTTAWA, June 19, 2012 /CNW/ - According to the CBC, "Statistics Canada says
only three aboriginal languages in Canada ? Cree, Ojibwa and Inuktitut ?
remain viable." That may be so, but apparently not if First Nations youth
on-reserves and in northern communities right across Canada have anything
to say about it.

According to the latest national report of the First Nations Regional
Health Survey (RHS), 86% of youth (12 to 17 years old) living in nearly
every First Nation and northern community felt that learning their own
Indigenous language was "very important" or "somewhat important."

In fact, more than half (56.3%) of First Nations youth across Canada
reported speaking or understanding their own languages.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jun 20 13:25:39 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:25:39 -0500
Subject: Traditionalists lambast undermining of Xhosa language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.082539.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Eastern Cape, Africa
Jun 19 2012 4:47PM

Traditionalists lambast undermining of Xhosa language

Sithandiwe Velaphi

A traditionalist, Loyiso Nqevu, says indigenous languages are valuable
resources that must be maintained and passed from generation to generation.

Other traditionalists highlighted the need to lambast vernacular radio
stations for undermining the Xhosa language and placing no value on it.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed Jun 20 13:29:26 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:29:26 -0500
Subject: Indigenous Peoples Global Conference on RIO+20 and Mother Earth
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.082926.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON RIO+20 AND MOTHER EARTH?
Posted by: joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 02:21
AM 71 Reads

?We, the Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth assembled at the site of
Kari-Oka I, sacred Kari-Oka P?ku, Rio de Janeiro to participate in the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20, thank the
Indigenous Peoples of Brazil for welcoming us to their territories. We
reaffirm our responsibility to speak for the protection and enhancement of
the well-being of Mother Earth, nature and future generations of our
Indigenous Peoples and all humanity and life. We recognize the significance
of this second convening of Indigenous Peoples of the world and reaffirm
the historic 1992 meeting of the Kari-Oca I, where Indigenous Peoples
issued The Kari-Oca Declaration and the Indigenous Peoples Earth Charter.
The Kari-Oca conference, and the mobilization of Indigenous Peoples around
the first UN Earth Summit, marked a big step forward for an international
movement for Indigenous Peoples? rights and the important role that
Indigenous Peoples play in conservation and sustainable development. We
also reaffirm the Manaus Declaration on the convening of Kari-Oca 2 as the
international gathering of Indigenous Peoples for Rio+20.

Access full article below:
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From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun 20 21:01:54 2012
From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:01:54 -0700
Subject: PBS New Hour tonight - -June 21 - Ft. Mojave Language
 Revitalization
Message-ID: <WED.20.JUN.2012.140154.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Please tune into see the PBS news hour tonight -- Natalie Diaz and the
whole Ft Mojave language program are featured...

Susan

-- 
**********************************************************************************************
*Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
*
Research Coordinator,
CERCLL,  Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy
CONFLUENCE, Center for Creative Inquiry
University of Arizona
Fax: (520) 626-3313
Websites:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 13:58:04 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:58:04 -0500
Subject: Google sets out to save the dying languages of the world (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.085804.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google sets out to save the dying languages of the world

Matt Hartley  Jun 21, 2012 ? 2:23 AM ET | Last Updated: Jun 21, 2012 2:25
AM ET
CA

For generations, the language of Tseshaht Nuu-chah-nulth has been spoken by
the Hupacasath and Tseshaht First Nations of Vancouver Island. But today,
there are believed to be only five people alive who can speak it fluently.
Indeed, it is one of dozens of endangered languages and dialects spoken by
the indigenous people of North America that are in danger of disappearing.

Globally, nearly half of the world?s estimated 7,000 languages are believed
to be at risk of disappearing over the next century as cultural norms shift
and younger generations turn away from the languages of their elders.

Now, thanks to a new project from Google.org ? the philanthropic wing of
Silicon Valley technology giant Google Inc. ? scholars and educators from
around the world are hoping to come together and harness the power of the
Internet to collect and share data on endangered languages in an effort to
preserve and promote dying tongues.

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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/21/google-sets-out-to-save-the-dying-languages-of-the-world/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:00:29 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:00:29 -0500
Subject: Google cataloging endangered languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090029.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google cataloging endangered languages

OMAR EL AKKAD - TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jun. 21 2012, 12:00 AM EDT

Google is attempting to build the world?s most comprehensive resource on
the thousands of spoken and written languages currently at risk of
extinction.

The search engine announced on Thursday the launch of the Endangered
Languages Project, a website that allows users to archive audio, video and
written information about the world?s rarest languages and dialects. The
project could prove a boon to cultural preservation in Canada, where dozens
of aboriginal languages are at risk of fading away.

The site already has an archive of information about more than 3,000
languages, or nearly half the number believed to be endangered around the
world. The list ranges from the Harsusi language, spoken by about 700
people in Oman, to the Assiniboine language, spoken natively by fewer than
150 people in parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/google-cataloging-endangered-languages/article4358882/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:01:59 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:01:59 -0500
Subject: iPhone app allows First Nations speakers to chat in their native
 tongue (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090159.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

iPhone app allows First Nations speakers to chat in their native tongue

BY JAMES KELLER, THE CANADIAN PRESS JUNE 20, 2012

VANCOUVER - Four decades ago, Pena Elliott's grandfather sat down with a
typewriter and created the written form of the native language spoken in
his First Nations community on Vancouver Island.

The standard 26-letter Roman alphabet couldn't account for all of the
intricate sounds of the language, so he created new characters by
overlapping letters and punctuation.

For example, he typed the letter T, hit the backspace and then placed
hyphen overtop. The resulting character sounds similar to "th."

"As soon as the alphabet was created, we were able to teach in schools,"
says Elliott, a member of the Tsartlip First Nation, one of the bands in
the Saanich First Nation north of Victoria.



Read more:
http://www.theprovince.com/life/iPhone+allows+First+Nations+speakers+chat+their+native+tongue/6814732/story.html#ixzz1yR7B5JKw
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:04:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:04:10 -0500
Subject: Facing History and Ourselves creates a new educational resource
 on Canadian Aboriginal languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090410.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

June 21, 2012 8:00 AM - General - Books - Education - Publishing
CA

Facing History and Ourselves creates a new educational resource on Canadian
Aboriginal languages

TORONTO, June 21, 2012 /CNW/ - Facing History and Ourselves is creating an
educational resource for teachers and students that explores the effects of
lost and endangered languages on aboriginal identity, culture, and
community. This guide will help young people understand the impact of
individual choices in building an inclusive society and empower them to be
active, ethical citizens in their schools and communities.

The resource, which will be developed over the next three years, will weave
together a series of readings, including primary sources, testimonies,
interviews, literary excerpts, essays, articles, photographs, paintings,
and other media. A research and review team including aboriginal scholars
will help shape the themes and messages and review chapters for accuracy
and context. The goal of the guide is to increase an understanding of
history, heighten awareness of Canadian aboriginal languages, and provide a
framework for thoughtful conversations about identity and language.

Access full article below:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/997073/facing-history-and-ourselves-creates-a-new-educational-resource-on-canadian-aboriginal-languages
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:09:23 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:09:23 -0500
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090923.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Endangered languages
A project by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity

About this project

The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access,
and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to
share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen
languages under threat.

http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:34:44 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:34:44 -0500
Subject: Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.093444.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages

By Chris Taylor, Mashable
updated 10:15 AM EDT, Thu June 21, 2012

(CNN) -- Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in
Aragonese? How about Navajo, or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just
discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India?

No, you probably wouldn't, not in that moment. But humanity would be.
Science, art and culture would be. If, as the phrase goes, another language
equals another soul, then some 3,054 souls -- 50% of the world's total
languages -- are set to die out by 2100.

Access full article below:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 14:44:28 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:44:28 -0500
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project: Supporting language
 preservation through technology and collaboration (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.094428.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

The Endangered Languages Project: Supporting language preservation through
technology and collaboration<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/blogspot/MKuf/%7E3/FpitgyejoGw/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html>
from The Official Google
Blog<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleblog.blogspot.com%2Fatom.xml?hl=en&at=N2uOWR6WpU-QAZAqNvKPOg>
by
A Googler

The Miami-Illinois language
<http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1924>was considered by some
to be extinct. Once spoken by Native American
communities throughout what?s now the American Midwest, its last fluent
speakers died in the 1960s. Decades later, Daryl Baldwin, a citizen of the
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, began teaching himself the language from
historical manuscripts and now works with the Miami University in Ohio to
continue the work of revitalizing the language<http://www.myaamiaproject.com/>,
publishing stories, audio files and other educational materials. Miami
children are once again learning the language and?even more
inspiring?teaching it to each other.

Access full blog post below:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html#!/2012/06/endangered-languages-project-supporting.html
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From Jimrem at AOL.COM  Thu Jun 21 14:53:38 2012
From: Jimrem at AOL.COM (Jimrem at AOL.COM)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:53:38 -0400
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.105338.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I have tried to go to the website given below, but for some reason when I  
get on it I get a pop-up message that says I need to use a newer browser. 
I'm  using Internet Explorer 9 and I'm not aware of anything newer. Has anyone 
else  had the same problem?

Here is the message I get when I try to access the  website:
 
 
 
The browser version you are using is too old and not supported by this  site
You will need a newer version of your browser to access the Endangered  
Languages project


 
The  Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access, 
and  share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to 
share  advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen  
languages under threat.

_http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/_ (http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/) 
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From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun 21 15:09:48 2012
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:09:48 -0500
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <1ebaf.a326a58.3d148f71@aol.com>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.100948.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

It worked fine for me in Firefox.
Claire

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:53 AM, <Jimrem at aol.com> wrote:

> **
> I have tried to go to the website given below, but for some reason when I
> get on it I get a pop-up message that says I need to use a newer browser.
> I'm using Internet Explorer 9 and I'm not aware of anything newer. Has
> anyone else had the same problem?
>
> Here is the message I get when I try to access the website:
>
>  The browser version you are using is too old and not supported by this
> site You will need a newer version of your browser to access the
> Endangered Languages project
>
> The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access,
> and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to
> share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen
> languages under threat.
>
> http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
>
>
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 15:19:21 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:19:21 -0500
Subject: B.C. first nations aim to preserve dying languages with Google's
 help (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.101921.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

B.C. first nations aim to preserve dying languages with Google's help

BY TIFFANY CRAWFORD, VANCOUVER SUN JUNE 21, 2012 8:08 AM
CA

First nations in B.C. will mark National Aboriginal Day today by launching
a new website in partnership with Google aimed at preserving indigenous
languages.

The Google Endangered Languages Project website was created by a committee
of language experts and Google staff, according to the First Peoples'
Cultural Council, which chairs the committee and will oversee the project.

The website www.endangeredlanguages.com, which is set to launch today at 9
a.m. PT, will invite language experts from around the world to post videos,
audio clips, books and other publications.



Read more:
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/first+nations+preserve+dying+languages+with+Google+help/6818639/story.html#ixzz1yRQbV5fN
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 21 15:36:33 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:36:33 -0500
Subject: N.W.T. community to offer kindergarten in Tlicho language (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.103633.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 N.W.T. community to offer kindergarten in Tlicho language
First time program is available in 20 years CBC
News<http://www.cbc.ca/news/credit.html> Posted:
Jun 20, 2012 2:10 PM CT Last Updated: Jun 20, 2012 3:04 PM CT
****<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/06/20/north-tlicho-language-kindergarten.html#socialcomments>
 [image: Mary Adele Mackenzie is going to enrol her child in the new Tlicho
Yati kindergarten. She said she wishes the program had been available five
years ago as well so that her 10-year-old could have enrolled.] *
Mary Adele Mackenzie is going to enrol her child in the new Tlicho Yati
kindergarten. She said she wishes the program had been available five years
ago as well so that her 10-year-old could have enrolled. (CBC)*

This fall, kindergarten classes in Behchoko, N.W.T., will be offered
entirely in the Tlicho language.

This is the first time parents will be able to choose whether to enroll
their children in an English or Tlicho immersion class.

Rita Mueller is the CEO of the Tlicho Community Services Agency.

?The advantage for children is to be really grounded in knowing where they
come from and being able to learn the language so they can speak to elders
and their grandparents and aunties and uncles whose first language has
always been Tlicho,? she said.

Access full article below:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/06/20/north-tlicho-language-kindergarten.html


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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Thu Jun 21 15:37:20 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:37:20 +0100
Subject: The Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <1ebaf.a326a58.3d148f71@aol.com>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.163720.0100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I recommend you use any browser BUT Internet Explorer--Firefox, Chrome, Mozilla, Safari, Opera. All free!

best wishes,
Alex

On 21 Jun 2012, at 3:53 pm, <Jimrem at AOL.COM<mailto:Jimrem at AOL.COM>> wrote:

I have tried to go to the website given below, but for some reason when I get on it I get a pop-up message that says I need to use a newer browser. I'm using Internet Explorer 9 and I'm not aware of anything newer. Has anyone else had the same problem?

Here is the message I get when I try to access the website:

The browser version you are using is too old and not supported by this site
You will need a newer version of your browser to access the Endangered Languages project
The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages under threat.

http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/


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From wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun 21 15:41:39 2012
From: wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM (Wayne Leman)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:41:39 -0700
Subject: Google fights to save endangered languages
In-Reply-To: <1ebaf.a326a58.3d148f71@aol.com>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.084139.0700.WLEMAN1949@GMAIL.COM>

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 
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From wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun 21 15:43:05 2012
From: wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM (Wayne Leman)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:43:05 -0700
Subject: Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86Rxk2pi0LzKgri97EwbZkBXv91Xjm1oL4VLQr7KbJzSikQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.084305.0700.WLEMAN1949@GMAIL.COM>

Sorry for duplicating this message.
Wayne

From: Phillip E Cash Cash 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:34 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU 
Subject: [ILAT] Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages (fwd link)

Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages
    
By Chris Taylor, Mashable
updated 10:15 AM EDT, Thu June 21, 2012

(CNN) -- Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in Aragonese? How about Navajo, or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India?

No, you probably wouldn't, not in that moment. But humanity would be. Science, art and culture would be. If, as the phrase goes, another language equals another soul, then some 3,054 souls -- 50% of the world's total languages -- are set to die out by 2100.

Access full article below:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable/
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From arcresours at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun 21 16:04:02 2012
From: arcresours at GMAIL.COM (Sandra Gaskell)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:04:02 -0700
Subject: Google fights to save endangered languages
In-Reply-To: <9672915D46E941099A80C657C0B47496@wlemanVAIO>
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.090402.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

mine worked
we are part of that tribal google earth out here

we used language mapping of Calif as a basis

this willbe reallycool to have an interface betweeninguistics and archaeology
thanks for posting

Sent from my iPhone
Sandra Gaskell

On Jun 21, 2012, at 8:41 AM, Wayne Leman <wleman1949 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/tech/web/google-fights-save-language-mashable/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:14:22 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:14:22 -0500
Subject: Google partners with UH Manoa linguists on endangered languages
 project (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.091422.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google partners with UH Manoa linguists on endangered languages project

University of Hawai?i at M?noa
Posted: Jun. 20, 2012

The Endangered Languages Project, a website developed by Google and backed
by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, launched today at
www.endangeredlanguages.com. A central feature of the website is the
Catalogue of Endangered Languages compiled by linguists at the University
of Hawai?i at M?noa and the LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan
University. The website is sponsored by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.

?The world?s languages are in crisis, but there is no comprehensive,
up-to-date source of information on the endangered languages of the world,?
said Lyle Campbell, director of the UH M?noa Catalogue of Endangered
Languages project and a professor of Linguistics in the College of
Languages, Linguistics and Literature. ?So the Catalogue is needed to
support documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, to inform
the public and scholars, to aid members of groups whose languages are in
peril, and to call attention to the languages most critically in need of
conservation.?

Access full article below:
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=5162
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:20:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:20:10 -0500
Subject: Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.092010.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages

BY JACK KNOX, TIMES COLONIST JUNE 22, 2012 6:19 AM
Victoria, CAN

A few years ago, up in Alert Bay, a woman taught me a phrase of Kwak'wala
with which to impress my wife.

So, when Dr. Romance here got home, he decided to try it out. "Qwallayuw,"
I told my beloved. "It's a term of endearment, means, 'You're my reason for
being.'"

"Whatever," she replied. Perhaps it lost something in translation.

Languages are nuanced that way, which is what makes it so sad when one
disappears. It's like closing the curtains on a window offering a different
view of the world.



Read more:
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:24:20 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:24:20 -0500
Subject: Bible translators race to preserve cultures, histories (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.092420.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Bible translators race to preserve cultures, histories

Mission Network News - 6/21/2012

Australia (WYC/MNN) ? Every once in a while you hear about the rush to
preserve a dying language. It can seem like a lot of effort for little
pay-off when that language is only spoken by a few hundred people,
especially when you have so many thousands of languages that seem similar.

What's at stake if a language dies? Take a moment to consider what it is
beyond a means of communication. It's a unique storehouse not just of
words, but also of cultural identity.

Access full article below:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Missions/Default.aspx?id=1619454
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:39:16 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:39:16 -0500
Subject: news cycle...
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.093916.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings folks,

The news of Google's recent launch of the Endangered Languages Project made
a rush of headlines yesterday.  All quite exciting (since I search the news
daily).  I'm sure we will see more of the same in the coming month.  Keep
an eye out for original journalistic articles as these seem to take a
uniquely local perspective containing new information.  For example, in
today's headline, we saw:

Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic

This article was good because it "localized" the news of Google's ELP
launch during"...(a big pancake breakfast) at the offices of the First
Peoples' Cultural Council on the Tsartlip reserve" in Victoria, Canada.  :P

l8ter,
Phil
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From huangc20 at UFL.EDU  Fri Jun 22 15:15:18 2012
From: huangc20 at UFL.EDU (Huang,Chun)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:15:18 -0400
Subject: news cycle...
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RzMdcbvv-qd0K+7HnW7+cmJwF+Ar_506KMJ5C0ormRDMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.111518.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

  

Thanks, Phil, 

definitely love to see more of the localized news!


Jimmy 

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:39:16 -0500, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:


> Greetings folks,
> 
> The news of Google's recent launch of the
Endangered Languages Project made a rush of headlines yesterday. All
quite exciting (since I search the news daily). I'm sure we will see
more of the same in the coming month. Keep an eye out for original
journalistic articles as these seem to take a uniquely local perspective
containing new information. For example, in today's headline, we saw:
>

> Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages
>
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic
[1]
> 
> This article was good because it "localized" the news of
Google's ELP launch during"...(a big pancake breakfast) at the offices
of the First Peoples' Cultural Council on the Tsartlip reserve" in
Victoria, Canada. :P
> 
> l8ter,
> Phil

  

Links:
------
[1]
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+languages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 01:14:49 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:14:49 -0500
Subject: New Google site aims to save endangered languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.201449.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

New Google site aims to save endangered languages

By Kazi Stastna, CBC News Posted: Jun 22, 2012 2:27 PM ET

Google has launched a new website this week aimed at helping preserve the
more than 3,000 languages of the world that are at risk of extinction.

The goal of the Endangered Languages Project is to compile the most
up-to-date and comprehensive information about endangered languages and
share the latest research about those languages and efforts to preserve
them.

About half of the world's estimated 7,000 languages are at risk of
disappearing in the next 100 years, Google said in a blog post earlier this
week announcing the launch of the project.

"We have so many languages which are in danger of dying, and though there
has been work done by linguists to document these languages, there are
nowhere near enough linguists to do that," said Anthony Aristar, professor
of linguistics and co-director of the Institute for Language Information
and Technology at Eastern Michigan University, which helped create the site.

"It's not just a matter of documenting the languages, it's also a matter of
revitalizing them if we possibly can."

Access full article below:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/22/tech-google-endangered-languages.html
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 15:22:55 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:22:55 -0500
Subject: Google Joins Fight to Save Nearly 3,000 Endangered Languages (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.102255.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Google Joins Fight to Save Nearly 3,000 Endangered Languages
By Keith Wagstaff <http://techland.time.com/author/kpwagstaff/> |
@kwagstaff<http://www.twitter.com/kwagstaff>| June
22, 2012
US

The last native speakers of Miami-Illinois died in the 1960s. Two centuries
earlier, Jesuits came to the United States and found two tribes ? the Miami
and the Illinois, which both shared a common language.

?The Jesuits believed you had to understand the language and the culture of
the people you were trying to convert,? says George Ironstrack, assistant
director for the Myaamia Project <http://www.myaamiaproject.org/>. ?Then
you could preach to them in their language and translate religious
materials for them.?

While the Jesuits may not have had the purest of intentions, they did
create an extensive record of the language, including dictionaries in
French that matched words with sentences that put them in context. In the
1990s, researchers started the task of bringing the extinct language back
to life, teaching it to the Miami community in Oklahoma.

Read more:
http://techland.time.com/2012/06/22/google-joins-fight-to-save-nearly-3000-endangered-languages/#ixzz1yd8bOp1R
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 15:42:32 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:42:32 -0500
Subject: Bininj Gunwok website
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.104232.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings ILAT,

If you recall, a news post was linked here from early June.  It described "a
great new initiative from Western Arnhem Land that gives us all the chance
to learn a bit of an Aboriginal language: Bininj Gunwok*."  Here is the
link.  Take a look and fwd this post to show support.

http://bininjgunwok.org.au/

l8ter,
Phil
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 15:58:56 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:58:56 -0500
Subject: text on iBooks Author
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.105856.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 fyi,

Although I do not yet own an iPad, take a look at this free text on
creating Ebooks with iBooks Author...

Publishing with iBooks Author
 An Introduction to Creating Ebooks for the iPad
 By Nellie McKesson, Adam
Witwer<http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025597.do#tab_03>
Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Tools of Change
Released: February 2012
Pages: 108

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025597.do

Phil
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat Jun 23 18:11:36 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:11:36 -0500
Subject: Indigenous Language Institute Collaborates with Google on the
 Endangered Languages Project (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.131136.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Indigenous Language Institute Collaborates with Google on the Endangered
Languages Project

June 24, 2012 | Posted by: DigitalMaori
NZ

Today marks the launch of the Endangered Languages Project, a collaboration
between the Indigenous Language Institute (ILI), other members of the
Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, and Google, which includes a website for
people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information
about endangered languages.

The site address is www.endangeredlanguages.com.

ILI is a member of a new coalition of organizations committed to preserving
endangered languages, the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, which backs
this project.

?ILI is proud to be associated with Google on this important initiative,
which we believe will be of immense use to Native Language teachers,
activists and learners,? says ILI Board of Directors President Gerald L.
Hill (Oneida).

Access full article below:
http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/18282
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From Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG  Mon Jun 25 11:09:48 2012
From: Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:09:48 +0300
Subject: UNESCO Directory for Linguistic Diversity
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.140948.0300.>

UNESCO have produced a directory for linguistic diversity. It contains long
lists of organisations, academic programmes, software, donors, archives,
resources, web sites etc.

 

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/pdf/International%20co
operation%20programs.pdf

 

Dave Pearson

Permanent Representative to UNESCO

SIL International

 

Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 

UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581

Office: +254 202 723 793

Skype: dave_pearson_sil

Web: www.sil.org

 

SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
sustainable language
development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
development.

 

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From Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG  Mon Jun 25 13:26:52 2012
From: Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:26:52 +0300
Subject: Graphite: a "smart font" system
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.162652.0300.>

Graphite is a "smart font" system developed specifically to handle the
complexities of lesser-known languages of the world. They have just launched
a new web site: 

 

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects&item_id=graphi
te_home> &item_id=graphite_home 

 

Dave Pearson

Permanent Representative to UNESCO

SIL International

 

Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 

UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581

Office: +254 202 723 793

Skype: dave_pearson_sil

Web: www.sil.org

 

SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
sustainable language
development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon Jun 25 17:02:19 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:02:19 -0500
Subject: Aboriginal language knowledge and youth suicide (fwd blog link)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.120219.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Aboriginal language knowledge and youth?suicide

qmulbilingualism
25 Jun

Hallett, D., Chandler, M. J., & Lalonde, C. E. (2007). Aboriginal
language knowledge and youth suicide. Cognitive Development, 22(3),
392?399.

(via Indigenous Tweets)


From annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG  Mon Jun 25 21:19:29 2012
From: annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG (Anna Luisa Daigneault)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:19:29 -0400
Subject: UNESCO Directory for Linguistic Diversity
In-Reply-To: <004401cd52c3$0b1ea330$215be990$@org>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.171929.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

This is so great, thanks for sending this!
Anna


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Dave Pearson <Dave_Pearson at sil.org> wrote:

> UNESCO have produced a directory for linguistic diversity. It contains
> long lists of organisations, academic programmes, software, donors,
> archives, resources, web sites etc.****
>
> ** **
>
>
> http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/pdf/International%20cooperation%20programs.pdf
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> Dave Pearson****
>
> Permanent Representative to UNESCO****
>
> SIL International****
>
> ** **
>
> Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 ****
>
> UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581****
>
> Office: +254 202 723 793****
>
> Skype: dave_pearson_sil****
>
> Web: www.sil.org****
>
> ** **
>
> *SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
> sustainable language
> development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
> development.*****
>
> ** **
>



-- 
Anna Luisa Daigneault, M.Sc
Latin America Projects Coordinator & Organizational Fellow
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages<http://www.livingtongues.org>
Enduring Voices
Project<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>
<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>@livingtongues<http://twitter.com/#%21/livingtongues>

The Yanesha Oral History Archives
Arr A??o'tena Poe?otenaxhno Yanesha
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 26 03:15:49 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:15:49 -0500
Subject: UNESCO Directory for Linguistic Diversity
In-Reply-To: <CAD2-PA5TqjUOWukETv8xeT+G7gn-uN=vMXDk=sfO93UtTyom2g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.221549.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Excellent work, Dave.  Much appreciated, Phil


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Anna Luisa Daigneault
<annaluisa at livingtongues.org> wrote:
> This is so great, thanks for sending this!
> Anna
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Dave Pearson <Dave_Pearson at sil.org> wrote:
>>
>> UNESCO have produced a directory for linguistic diversity. It contains
>> long lists of organisations, academic programmes, software, donors,
>> archives, resources, web sites etc.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/pdf/International%20cooperation%20programs.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave Pearson
>>
>> Permanent Representative to UNESCO
>>
>> SIL International
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837
>>
>> UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581
>>
>> Office: +254 202 723 793
>>
>> Skype: dave_pearson_sil
>>
>> Web: www.sil.org
>>
>>
>>
>> SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
>> sustainable language
>> development,?by means of research, translation, training and materials
>> development.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Anna Luisa Daigneault, M.Sc
> Latin America Projects Coordinator & Organizational Fellow
> Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
> Enduring Voices Project
> @livingtongues
>
> The Yanesha Oral History Archives
> Arr A??o'tena Poe?otenaxhno Yanesha
> www.yanesha.com
>
>
>


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 26 03:17:42 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:17:42 -0500
Subject: Commission helps language preservation plan (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.221742.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Commission helps language preservation plan

BY JEREMY WARREN, THE STARPHOENIX JUNE 25, 2012
Canada

Emile Highway couldn't speak one word of English when he arrived at
the Guy Hill Indian Residential School.

He spoke Woodland Cree with his family for his first seven years, but
the school didn't allow him or his fellow students to speak their
native languages, leaving him without a voice.

"We only used it at the far end of the playground," Highway said at
the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Saskatoon.
"The English language was a necessity for us to leave behind our
traditions. That was the message - being Native was no good. White was
right."

Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Commission+helps+language+preservation+plan/6834463/story.html#ixzz1yrf2iR1O


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 26 03:21:21 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:21:21 -0500
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLiteracy_Makes_You_Lazy=E2=80=9D=3A_?=Saving
 Endangered Lan guages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUN.2012.222121.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

?Literacy Makes You Lazy?: Saving Endangered Languages

Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
US

?Literacy makes you lazy: we don?t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
more,? David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.

?I don?t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,? said Harrison, a
linguist who studies many of the world?s disappearing languages.

Harrison?s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
study some of the most important endangered language ?hotspots? around
the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.

Access full article below:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/


From awebster at SIU.EDU  Tue Jun 26 12:22:37 2012
From: awebster at SIU.EDU (Anthony Webster)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:22:37 -0500
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94=3A_?=Saving
 End angered Lan guages (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RxGo3oZG31ZdZiozxRJVwNuXTXEo3RAn50oukZP+tir-Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.072237.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers!
Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great
deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy.
Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number
of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should
be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> ?Literacy Makes You Lazy?: Saving Endangered Languages
>
> Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
> US
>
> ?Literacy makes you lazy: we don?t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
> more,? David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
> Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
> Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.
>
> ?I don?t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,? said Harrison, a
> linguist who studies many of the world?s disappearing languages.
>
> Harrison?s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
> team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
> study some of the most important endangered language ?hotspots? around
> the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/
>



-- 
Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Native American Studies Minor
MC 4502
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-5019
http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html

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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Tue Jun 26 13:46:25 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:46:25 -0500
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLiteracy_Makes_You_Lazy=E2=80=9D=3A_?=Saving
 End  angered Lan guages (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CAMgF+8uNaAf+8vY4TAbDGMjYJBuJ8JhEq7XVF928rhURjLoFVg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.084625.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Some things we just don't take the time to commit to memory
but some of us working on the revitalization of language and reviving
ancient ceremonies
still must put in time to memorize speeches and prayers. It's important
these are not read aloud.

Memorization of speeches takes time...lots of time. TIME is what our
nervous fast-paced
dominant culture is consistently short of. When do people have the time to
memorize anything?
Some memorize during commutes.I practice memorization while rolling clay
coils in the studio,
or while working in the garden.
Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical
routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a
bowstring....
these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and
malleable.

une?h!
Richard Zane Smith

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Anthony Webster <awebster at siu.edu> wrote:

> Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers!
> Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great
> deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy.
> Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number
> of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should
> be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
> cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>> ?Literacy Makes You Lazy?: Saving Endangered Languages
>>
>> Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
>> US
>>
>> ?Literacy makes you lazy: we don?t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
>> more,? David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
>> Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
>> Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.
>>
>> ?I don?t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,? said Harrison, a
>> linguist who studies many of the world?s disappearing languages.
>>
>> Harrison?s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
>> team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
>> study some of the most important endangered language ?hotspots? around
>> the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.
>>
>> Access full article below:
>>
>> http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
> Native American Studies Minor
> MC 4502
> Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
> Carbondale, IL 62901
> 618-453-5019
>
> http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html
>
> Dream other dreams, and better!
>                                  Mark Twain
>
>


-- 
*

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Think of continuing generations of our families,

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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Tue Jun 26 13:54:07 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:54:07 +0100
Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94=3A_?=Saving
 End ang ered Lan guages (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CAMgF+8uNaAf+8vY4TAbDGMjYJBuJ8JhEq7XVF928rhURjLoFVg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.145407.0100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I find it really surprising that David would say something so silly. Actors memorize thousands of lines of plays. Shakespearean actors making a career playing different roles on the stage memorize all the lines for multiple roles across several different plays because they deploy that knowledge regularly. Same with opera singers. I have forgotten most the lines to Marc Anthony's funeral speech that I memorized in high school because I haven't been performing it regularly. I can only assume that the reporter deleted all the hedging and context that David would normally provide.

Watching and helping my 6-year-old and 9-year-old acquire literacy shows me just how much hard work is involved. It doesn't end with them. Teaching first-year university students how to read a journal article is another skill requiring teaching and practice before they learn how to do it. I'm sure David has had similar experiences teaching undergraduates, too.

The point that I think David was trying to make, and the 'journalist' garbled, is the classic Boasian position that oral traditions should be valued just as much as written/literary ones. The keepers of oral traditions are also fantastic artists in many cases. We will never know for sure unless we send out more people to document those traditions in the original language, and even better would be to foster a political and economic landscape that rewarded those individuals and communities for maintaining heritage languages, whereas now they are rewarded for shifting to one of a handful of dominant languages.

-Alex

On 26 Jun 2012, at 1:22 pm, Anthony Webster wrote:

Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers! Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy. Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu<mailto:cashcash at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:
?Literacy Makes You Lazy?: Saving Endangered Languages

Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
US

?Literacy makes you lazy: we don?t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
more,? David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.

?I don?t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,? said Harrison, a
linguist who studies many of the world?s disappearing languages.

Harrison?s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
study some of the most important endangered language ?hotspots? around
the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.

Access full article below:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/



--
Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Native American Studies Minor
MC 4502
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-5019
http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html

Dream other dreams, and better!
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From mhermes at UMN.EDU  Tue Jun 26 13:59:37 2012
From: mhermes at UMN.EDU (Mary Hermes)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:59:37 -0500
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving End
 ang ered Lan guages (fwd link )
In-Reply-To: <1F2F8E3D-E850-4102-8D54-F2A76436406D@abdn.ac.uk>
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Yep, move over-simplistic binary thinking...spun by media into grant meta narratives that we are all familiar with and so ring with nostalgia.

I really like Richard's idea of memorizing in the garden, yep, that's the lesson for me when I can't stop my mind from going in ten directions at once. 



--------------------------------------------



Mary Hermes, PhD
Associate and Visiting Professor, 2011-12
Curriculum and Instruction
University of Minnesota





On Jun 26, 2012, at 8:54 AM, King, Dr Alexander D. wrote:

> I find it really surprising that David would say something so silly. Actors memorize thousands of lines of plays. Shakespearean actors making a career playing different roles on the stage memorize all the lines for multiple roles across several different plays because they deploy that knowledge regularly. Same with opera singers. I have forgotten most the lines to Marc Anthony's funeral speech that I memorized in high school because I haven't been performing it regularly. I can only assume that the reporter deleted all the hedging and context that David would normally provide. 
> 
> Watching and helping my 6-year-old and 9-year-old acquire literacy shows me just how much hard work is involved. It doesn't end with them. Teaching first-year university students how to read a journal article is another skill requiring teaching and practice before they learn how to do it. I'm sure David has had similar experiences teaching undergraduates, too.
> 
> The point that I think David was trying to make, and the 'journalist' garbled, is the classic Boasian position that oral traditions should be valued just as much as written/literary ones. The keepers of oral traditions are also fantastic artists in many cases. We will never know for sure unless we send out more people to document those traditions in the original language, and even better would be to foster a political and economic landscape that rewarded those individuals and communities for maintaining heritage languages, whereas now they are rewarded for shifting to one of a handful of dominant languages.
> 
> -Alex
> 
> On 26 Jun 2012, at 1:22 pm, Anthony Webster wrote:
> 
>> Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers! Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy. Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>> ?Literacy Makes You Lazy?: Saving Endangered Languages
>> 
>> Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
>> US
>> 
>> ?Literacy makes you lazy: we don?t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
>> more,? David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
>> Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
>> Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.
>> 
>> ?I don?t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,? said Harrison, a
>> linguist who studies many of the world?s disappearing languages.
>> 
>> Harrison?s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
>> team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
>> study some of the most important endangered language ?hotspots? around
>> the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.
>> 
>> Access full article below:
>> http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor
>> Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
>> Native American Studies Minor
>> MC 4502
>> Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
>> Carbondale, IL 62901
>> 618-453-5019
>> http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html
>>  
>> Dream other dreams, and better!
>>                                  Mark Twain
>> 
> 
> 
> ???????????
> Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732
>       
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
> http://www.koryaks.net/
> Tweet @Ememqut01
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.


From nwarner at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue Jun 26 14:19:46 2012
From: nwarner at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Warner, Natasha - (nwarner))
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:19:46 +0000
Subject: =?Windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94=3A_?=Saving
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In-Reply-To: <1F2F8E3D-E850-4102-8D54-F2A76436406D@abdn.ac.uk>
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Yes, let's try to remember that what journalists write often is pretty different from what an academic said.  The journalists are usually looking for a quick headline that will appeal to a lot of readers, and they're willing to jump to all sorts of unwarranted conclusions based on whatever the academic said.  If you're lucky, the journalists says something to you while they're taking notes like "So, would you say ___, then?" and you get the chance to answer "No!  That's not what I said at all, I didn't test that, and I would never claim that!  Let's start over."  But usually they don't give you that chance, they just go write and publish the article without your input.  A journalist once tried to twist my research to claim that people are talking "sloppy" these days because they're not reading enough anymore.  I didn't claim either of those things, let alone that one causes the other, and I had no data on how quantity of reading or speech reduction might have changed in different time periods.  Luckily, that journalist gave me the chance to fix that.  So maybe the bit about laziness and literacy isn't what David Harrison said or meant.

Thanks,
Natasha

***************************************************
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Dept. of Linguistics, Box 210028
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0028
USA
520-626-5591
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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] on behalf of King, Dr Alexander D. [a.king at ABDN.AC.UK]
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I find it really surprising that David would say something so silly. Actors memorize thousands of lines of plays. Shakespearean actors making a career playing different roles on the stage memorize all the lines for multiple roles across several different plays because they deploy that knowledge regularly. Same with opera singers. I have forgotten most the lines to Marc Anthony's funeral speech that I memorized in high school because I haven't been performing it regularly. I can only assume that the reporter deleted all the hedging and context that David would normally provide.

Watching and helping my 6-year-old and 9-year-old acquire literacy shows me just how much hard work is involved. It doesn't end with them. Teaching first-year university students how to read a journal article is another skill requiring teaching and practice before they learn how to do it. I'm sure David has had similar experiences teaching undergraduates, too.

The point that I think David was trying to make, and the 'journalist' garbled, is the classic Boasian position that oral traditions should be valued just as much as written/literary ones. The keepers of oral traditions are also fantastic artists in many cases. We will never know for sure unless we send out more people to document those traditions in the original language, and even better would be to foster a political and economic landscape that rewarded those individuals and communities for maintaining heritage languages, whereas now they are rewarded for shifting to one of a handful of dominant languages.

-Alex

On 26 Jun 2012, at 1:22 pm, Anthony Webster wrote:

Apparently, prior to literacy, Harrison memorized his cell phone numbers! Literacy does not "make" you "lazy." Harrison seems to be ignoring a great deal of research on the interconnections between orality and literacy. Memorization, for example, has co-existed with literacy (there are a number of religious examples of this). Literacies are social practices. We should be suspicious of claims of technological determinism. akw

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu<mailto:cashcash at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:
?Literacy Makes You Lazy?: Saving Endangered Languages

Posted by Brian Clark Howard of National Geographic News on June 25, 2012
US

?Literacy makes you lazy: we don?t memorize 10,000-word epic poems any
more,? David Harrison, the director of research for the Living Tongues
Institute for Endangered Languages, told an audience at the Aspen
Environment Forum in Colorado this past weekend.

?I don?t even memorize cell phone numbers any more,? said Harrison, a
linguist who studies many of the world?s disappearing languages.

Harrison?s group has been featured in National Geographic, and his
team formed a five-year joint project with NG, Enduring Voices, to
study some of the most important endangered language ?hotspots? around
the world. Harrison is also an NG fellow.

Access full article below:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/



--
Anthony K. Webster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology
Native American Studies Minor
MC 4502
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-5019
http://cola.siuc.edu/undergraduate/CollegeofLiberalArtsNativeAmericanStudies.html

Dream other dreams, and better!
                                 Mark Twain



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http://www.koryaks.net/
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From gmcmaya at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 26 15:32:55 2012
From: gmcmaya at GMAIL.COM (Maya Tracy Borhani)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:32:55 -0700
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving End
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On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:

> Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
> hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a bowstring....
> these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and malleable.


As does any significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6). 

This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.

Maya
Maya T. Borhani
Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
Faculty of Education
University of British Columbia
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z4


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From annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG  Tue Jun 26 17:29:12 2012
From: annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG (Anna Luisa Daigneault)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:29:12 -0400
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving En
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In-Reply-To: <259F5053-EACD-49CD-BA87-8CA05C377CBE@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.132912.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hello everyone,

I am writing to you on behalf of the the Living Tongues Institute for
Endangered Languages. I just spoke to David Harrison and he said that "the
headline was a very poor choice by the journalist." He had the post edited
so it is now entitled ?English Goes in One Ear and Out Another?: An
Endangered Language
Perspective<http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/>".


You can click on the link and refresh it in your browser to see the new
title. Additionally, we are forwarding all your comments to the Nat Geo
NewsWatch team members who were involved with the article, so they can
better understand the social issues surrounding literacy and oral
traditions and not jump so quickly to conclusions. As people on this thread
have mentioned, journalists sometimes misunderstand and misconstrue the
words of their interviewees, and take certain sentences out of context
without worrying about the consequences. Harrison will also post his own
reply later today when he is back from his trip.

all the best
Anna Luisa

-- 
Anna Luisa Daigneault, M.Sc
Latin America Projects Coordinator & Organizational Fellow
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages<http://www.livingtongues.org>
Enduring Voices
Project<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>
<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>@livingtongues<http://twitter.com/#%21/livingtongues>

The Yanesha Oral History Archives
Arr A??o'tena Poe?otenaxhno Yanesha
www.yanesha.com



On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Maya Tracy Borhani <gmcmaya at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
>
> Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical
> routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
> hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a
> bowstring....
> these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and
> malleable.
>
>
>
> As does *any* significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling
> efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE
> of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved
> real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract
> theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6).
>
> This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum
> policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.
>
> Maya
> Maya T. Borhani
> Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
> Faculty of Education
> University of British Columbia
> 2125 Main Mall
> Vancouver, BC
> Canada V6T 1Z4
>
>
>
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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Tue Jun 26 17:43:31 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:43:31 -0500
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CLiteracy_Makes_You_Lazy=E2=80=9D_?=:
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Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.124331.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

thanks Maya and Mary!
another thing i might add is that for me, memorization is best in morning
hours,
when it seems even sunlight smells fresh baked.
my morning mind is a glassy pool of spring water and I'm watching minnows
move gently through various layers. By evening its much more stirred and
sludgy!
(and by the way,...If we don't have time for watching minnows?....then we
really are missing something!)

:-)
Richard Zane Smith



On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Maya Tracy Borhani <gmcmaya at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
>
> Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical
> routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
> hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a
> bowstring....
> these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and
> malleable.
>
>
>
> As does *any* significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling
> efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE
> of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved
> real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract
> theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6).
>
> This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum
> policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.
>
> Maya
> Maya T. Borhani
> Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
> Faculty of Education
> University of British Columbia
> 2125 Main Mall
> Vancouver, BC
> Canada V6T 1Z4
>
>
>


-- 
*

 "Think not forever of yourselves... nor of your own generation.

Think of continuing generations of our families,

think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn,

whose faces are coming from beneath the ground."             The Peacemaker,


  richardzanesmith.wordpress.com

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From evan at WHEREAREYOURKEYS.ORG  Tue Jun 26 17:44:52 2012
From: evan at WHEREAREYOURKEYS.ORG (Evan Gardner)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:44:52 -0700
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94=3A_?=Saving
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Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.104452.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hello All,

Evan from "Where Are Your Keys?"

We have a technique called "speak to remember, write to forget".

It is a pretty general way of saying your language will live if it is
spoken... so speak it.

If the same amount of time were spent creating speakers then we wouldn't
have to write anything down. We would just speak and live. Knowledge would
just live within individuals and communities.

I am in no way against writing. I have just seen that writing is not the
easiest point of entry for two year olds. If adults learn by writing then
they will try to teach by writing. Why not teach in the same way you would
want the adults teaching the children. Train the adults to teach children
by teaching the adults to speak.

It does seam like a bit of work to get speaking but with clever curriculum
organization speaking can happen in minutes. Then no one has to memorize
anything. Language flows through the mind and into the community.

My 2 cents

I am enjoying the conversation as usual.

Thanks
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From gmcmaya at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 26 17:57:29 2012
From: gmcmaya at GMAIL.COM (Maya Tracy Borhani)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:57:29 -0700
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving End
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he-he! Evan from Where are your keys?

Hesasaka, Maya from Mtn. Maidu country!

good to know we're both on the list: will try to get Farrell CUnningham to come to the upcoming WHere Are YOur Keys workshop
 would you actually mind re-sending me that info?
WITH THANK!

Maya

On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Evan Gardner wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Evan from "Where Are Your Keys?" 
> 
> We have a technique called "speak to remember, write to forget".
> 
> It is a pretty general way of saying your language will live if it is spoken... so speak it.
> 
> If the same amount of time were spent creating speakers then we wouldn't have to write anything down. We would just speak and live. Knowledge would just live within individuals and communities.
> 
> I am in no way against writing. I have just seen that writing is not the easiest point of entry for two year olds. If adults learn by writing then they will try to teach by writing. Why not teach in the same way you would want the adults teaching the children. Train the adults to teach children by teaching the adults to speak. 
> 
> It does seam like a bit of work to get speaking but with clever curriculum organization speaking can happen in minutes. Then no one has to memorize anything. Language flows through the mind and into the community.
> 
> My 2 cents
> 
> I am enjoying the conversation as usual.
> 
> Thanks


From evan at WHEREAREYOURKEYS.ORG  Tue Jun 26 18:03:54 2012
From: evan at WHEREAREYOURKEYS.ORG (Evan Gardner)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:03:54 -0700
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Literacy_Makes_You_Lazy=94_?=: Saving En
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In-Reply-To: <E19053B1-04F8-41B3-B9FC-1647110DD5F9@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.110354.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

You just missed it! It was last weekend!

Every Wednesday night at the health clinic they play a huge game. 30 people
come!
On Jun 26, 2012 10:57 AM, "Maya Tracy Borhani" <gmcmaya at gmail.com> wrote:

> he-he! Evan from Where are your keys?
>
> Hesasaka, Maya from Mtn. Maidu country!
>
> good to know we're both on the list: will try to get Farrell CUnningham to
> come to the upcoming WHere Are YOur Keys workshop
>  would you actually mind re-sending me that info?
> WITH THANK!
>
> Maya
>
> On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Evan Gardner wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Evan from "Where Are Your Keys?"
> >
> > We have a technique called "speak to remember, write to forget".
> >
> > It is a pretty general way of saying your language will live if it is
> spoken... so speak it.
> >
> > If the same amount of time were spent creating speakers then we wouldn't
> have to write anything down. We would just speak and live. Knowledge would
> just live within individuals and communities.
> >
> > I am in no way against writing. I have just seen that writing is not the
> easiest point of entry for two year olds. If adults learn by writing then
> they will try to teach by writing. Why not teach in the same way you would
> want the adults teaching the children. Train the adults to teach children
> by teaching the adults to speak.
> >
> > It does seam like a bit of work to get speaking but with clever
> curriculum organization speaking can happen in minutes. Then no one has to
> memorize anything. Language flows through the mind and into the community.
> >
> > My 2 cents
> >
> > I am enjoying the conversation as usual.
> >
> > Thanks
>
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From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG  Tue Jun 26 21:35:42 2012
From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:35:42 -0700
Subject: Online Resource (language)
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.143542.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Website
Endangered Languages, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ 
An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.
 
Examples
Listing for Dine?, Dineh, Din? http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085 
Listing for Southwest Ojibwe, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005
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From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 26 23:57:42 2012
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0400
Subject: Online Resource (language)
In-Reply-To: <9B042DD0-F44E-426D-A5C7-B204DDEFB3AD@ncidc.org>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.195742.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I'd very strongly encourage anyone who sees errors in the catalogue to
submit a comment, and if you have language samples that you're able to
share, that would be great. We are very concerned to make this an accurate
resource that reflects the communities whose languages are listed. The
catalogue won't bring the languages back, of course, but it could be useful
to point to when applying for grants, for example.
Claire

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org>wrote:

> Website
> *Endangered Languages*, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
> An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.
>
>
> Examples
> Listing for Dine?, Dineh, Din?
> http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085
> Listing for Southwest Ojibwe, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
> Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005
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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Wed Jun 27 08:10:30 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:10:30 +0100
Subject: Online Resource (language)--google languages
In-Reply-To: <CAN6CvhfzJvjuEuSZF+EE-pZyAWPZLUdGhhFofMms6wNaXqJtJQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUN.2012.091030.0100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

It does not strike me as any more useful for grant applications than the Ethnologue, perhaps less so comparing the reputations. One feature that would be nice, especially for students looking for projects, would be highlighting languages that have little or no documentation. Clearly, the lack of 'samples' on the website doesn't mean a lack of documentation.

Is there a website of any kind that advertises undocumented or understudied languages?

Alex

On 27 Jun 2012, at 12:57 am, Claire Bowern wrote:

I'd very strongly encourage anyone who sees errors in the catalogue to submit a comment, and if you have language samples that you're able to share, that would be great. We are very concerned to make this an accurate resource that reflects the communities whose languages are listed. The catalogue won't bring the languages back, of course, but it could be useful to point to when applying for grants, for example.
Claire

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org<mailto:andrekaruk at ncidc.org>> wrote:
Website
Endangered Languages, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.

Examples
Listing for Dine?, Dineh, Din? http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085
Listing for Southwest Ojibwe, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005



???????????
Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
http://www.koryaks.net/
Tweet @Ememqut01

Editor, Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/sib/

Living with Koryak Traditions discount code '6as11': http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Living-with-Koryak-Traditions,674798.aspx



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From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun 27 18:16:38 2012
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:16:38 -0400
Subject: Online Resource (language)--google languages
In-Reply-To: <A3AB2A0F-F55B-44C0-B8B4-60D1405EAD6B@abdn.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUN.2012.141638.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I believe that's on the list for release soon. There's a huge bibliography
behind the database which will be available soon.
Claire

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:10 AM, King, Dr Alexander D. <a.king at abdn.ac.uk>wrote:

>  It does not strike me as any more useful for grant applications than the
> Ethnologue, perhaps less so comparing the reputations. One feature that
> would be nice, especially for students looking for projects, would be
> highlighting languages that have little or no documentation. Clearly, the
> lack of 'samples' on the website doesn't mean a lack of documentation.
>
>  Is there a website of any kind that advertises undocumented or
> understudied languages?
>
>  Alex
>
>  On 27 Jun 2012, at 12:57 am, Claire Bowern wrote:
>
> I'd very strongly encourage anyone who sees errors in the catalogue to
> submit a comment, and if you have language samples that you're able to
> share, that would be great. We are very concerned to make this an accurate
> resource that reflects the communities whose languages are listed. The
> catalogue won't bring the languages back, of course, but it could be useful
> to point to when applying for grants, for example.
> Claire
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org>wrote:
>
>>  Website
>>  *Endangered Languages*, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
>> An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.
>>
>>
>>  Examples
>>  Listing for Dine?, Dineh, Din?
>> http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085
>>  Listing for Southwest Ojibwe,
>> http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
>>  Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005
>>
>
>
>
> ???????????
>   Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,
>  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732
>
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
>  http://www.koryaks.net/
> Tweet @Ememqut01
>
>  Editor, Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies:
> http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/sib/
>
>  *Living with Koryak Traditions* discount code '*6as11*':
> http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Living-with-Koryak-Traditions,674798.aspx
>
>
>
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From whalen at HASKINS.YALE.EDU  Wed Jun 27 18:24:57 2012
From: whalen at HASKINS.YALE.EDU (Doug Whalen)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:24:57 -0400
Subject: Online Resource (language)--google languages
In-Reply-To: <CAN6Cvhdt5AsAbWjVcuBWFYBvLJ0SFonu0_g+SSuXuGJjOuerVQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUN.2012.142457.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

  Just to amplify Claire's response, the direct website for the NSF project is:
http://linguistlist.org/projects/elcat.cfm
They are working their way through 200,000 references to encode language and type (grammar, dictionary, etc.), and to give an initial quality rating.
  Doug DhW

On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Claire Bowern wrote:

> I believe that's on the list for release soon. There's a huge bibliography behind the database which will be available soon. 
> Claire
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:10 AM, King, Dr Alexander D. <a.king at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
> It does not strike me as any more useful for grant applications than the Ethnologue, perhaps less so comparing the reputations. One feature that would be nice, especially for students looking for projects, would be highlighting languages that have little or no documentation. Clearly, the lack of 'samples' on the website doesn't mean a lack of documentation.
> 
> Is there a website of any kind that advertises undocumented or understudied languages?
> 
> Alex
> 
> On 27 Jun 2012, at 12:57 am, Claire Bowern wrote:
> 
>> I'd very strongly encourage anyone who sees errors in the catalogue to submit a comment, and if you have language samples that you're able to share, that would be great. We are very concerned to make this an accurate resource that reflects the communities whose languages are listed. The catalogue won't bring the languages back, of course, but it could be useful to point to when applying for grants, for example.
>> Claire
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org> wrote:
>> Website
>> Endangered Languages, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ 
>> An online collaborative effort to protect global linguistic diversity.
>>  
>> Examples
>> Listing for Dine?, Dineh, Din? http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/6085 
>> Listing for Southwest Ojibwe, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4171
>> Listing for  Numunuh, http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/2005
>> 
> 
> 
> ???????????
> Senior Lecturer - University of Aberdeen, School of Social Sciences,  AB24 3QY, UK, +44(1224) 272732
>       
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=a.king
> http://www.koryaks.net/
> Tweet @Ememqut01
> 
> Editor, Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/sib/
> 
> Living with Koryak Traditions discount code '6as11': http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Living-with-Koryak-Traditions,674798.aspx
> 
> 
> 
> The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
> 

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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Thu Jun 28 07:41:00 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:41:00 -0400
Subject: news cycle...
In-Reply-To: <3f0badc0c9e5c64ac42c8434805073dd@ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.034100.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I apologize for not having written much lately but I have not forgotten you
or your people. I often get and idea and do research on it. This evening, in
responding to a Latvian friend on colonialism, I mentioned knowing you in my
dialogue. After I posted to him, I wanted to refresh my memory on some
points of your peoples. I found the following article which speaks a lot and
quite highly of a friend of mine who is, like myself and my people, 'fwan-a'
(?). I hope I have gotten this correct and it is complimentary rather than
derogatory. We also, to this day are thought of as 'barbarians'.


<http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=rdmap&Itemid=262&id
=903>
http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=rdmap&Itemid=262&id=
903

I was quite fascinated and after a sleep, as it is quite late here, 3:32 AM,
I will do more research on all this information. I hope all is well with
your family and I often think of your elder who walked so quietly to sit on
the entrance to the parliament and I hope he is well. My Dad turned 92 years
on March 10th 2012 and he is still going very well and independent. He stood
for all the rights of our people for as long as I can remember him.
I have to have a cup of tea and go to sleep so I will say good night Huang
Chun(Jimmy) and have a great day. I will probably be sleeping....

wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
  ?in the cabaret of globalization, the state appears as a stripper -
it strips off all its characteristics until only the bare essential remains:
repressive force.? SubCommander Marcos...


  _____

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Huang,Chun
Sent: June-22-12 11:15 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] news cycle...



Thanks, Phil,

definitely love to see more of the localized news!

Jimmy

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:39:16 -0500, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

Greetings folks,

The news of Google's recent launch of the Endangered Languages Project made
a rush of headlines yesterday.  All quite exciting (since I search the news
daily).  I'm sure we will see more of the same in the coming month.  Keep an
eye out for original journalistic articles as these seem to take a uniquely
local perspective containing new information.  For example, in today's
headline, we saw:

Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Island+takes+centre+stage+battle+save+lang
uages/6824099/story.html#ixzz1yX286qic

This article was good because it "localized" the news of Google's ELP launch
during"...(a big pancake breakfast) at the offices of the First Peoples'
Cultural Council on the Tsartlip reserve" in Victoria, Canada.  :P

l8ter,
Phil







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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 28 14:49:48 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:49:48 -0500
Subject: Oklahoma Today
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.094948.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

?eh? (greetings)!


Featured in the recent July/August issue of Oklahoma Today magazine is
Melanie McKay-Cody, signer/linguist and indigenous scholar of North
American Indian Sign Language.

http://www.oklahomatoday.com/oklahomatoday/MAGAZINE/Current_Issue/index.html


Phil
KU CoLang 2012
Lawrence, KS


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 28 16:00:26 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:00:26 -0500
Subject: Native Group Helps Google Preserve Endangered Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.110026.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Native Group Helps Google Preserve Endangered Languages
Google funds project to catalogue languages threatened with extinction

By Justina Reichel
Epoch Times Staff Created: June 27, 2012 Last Updated: June 28, 2012
Canada

The First Peoples? Cultural Council, a first nations-run Crown
corporation based on Vancouver Island, has been chosen to oversee a
project developed by Google that seeks to preserve endangered
indigenous languages.

The Google Endangered Languages Project, launched June 21 to coincide
with National Aboriginal Day, invites language experts from around the
world to post videos, audio clips, books and other publications on its
website to catalogue languages that are in danger of becoming extinct.

Access full article below:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/canada/native-group-helps-google-preserve-endangered-languages-258046.html


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu Jun 28 16:28:04 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:28:04 -0500
Subject: Hi from Gloria Bird
In-Reply-To: <CAJj0DtVusA4X4P=CHWgqg-s+OQPt6-wdakTw=WO1O5xG1sLCqQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.112804.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

?eh? (greetings),

I wish to share a request from a community member.  I am hoping our
generous & esteemed members here can share info that might help in this
particular instance.

life and language always,

Phil



On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:20 AM:
> I was searching online for some academic writing on native heritage
> language.  What I am interested in are any writings that support tribal
> efforts to recover/reintroduce language into their communities,
particularly
> with K-12 via immersion schooling that involves teacher and parents,
> grandparents or other caregivers.  I am working with our language
department
> to solicit funding for curriculum development, and I am wondering if there
> is writing that talks about how important language is to support native
> culture.  If you know of anything that might help, are you able to send
pdf
> files?  I actually need something ASAP.
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From hklein at NOTES.CC.SUNYSB.EDU  Thu Jun 28 16:51:34 2012
From: hklein at NOTES.CC.SUNYSB.EDU (Harriet Klein)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:51:34 -0400
Subject: Hi from Gloria Bird
In-Reply-To: <CACL86Ry4JUNNuTNhZc+WYMy1vHdF1J-7t7L1UmDh0cZuHBmwRA@mail.gmail.com>
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From weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jun 29 01:19:37 2012
From: weyiiletpu at GMAIL.COM (Phil Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:19:37 -0500
Subject: Fwd: For immediate release! Please publicize.
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUN.2012.201937.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -



Endangered Language Activists Bring the World to Kansas

LAWRENCE, KANSAS.

"My grandmother chose not to teach me Kickapoo purposefully. She said, 'You
don't need to know that' because her hair was washed with kerosene and
her mouth was washed out with lye soap for speaking to her sister in our
language. She didn't want that to happen to me," wept JoAnne Grandstaff.
The Kickapoo language, a Native American language spoken in Kansas, is
fighting for its survival, as are many endangered languages worldwide.

Community language activists from indigenous communities within Morocco,
Kenya, Nigeria and North America, met in Lawrence, Kansas at Watson Library
on the campus of the University of Kansas for an endangered languages
conference.  Speakers and signers representing languages as diverse as
Amazigh, Uda, North American Indian Sign Language, Nez Perce, and Ekegusii
joined forces to raise awareness of their language communities and the
endangered status of their languages.  Many have been doing this kind of
work for a long time, but this meeting of minds will also train a new
generation and pass on the knowledge from different parts of the world.

"Most of the time the reason the parents do not transmit the language to
their children is due to the stigmatization and exclusion of the language,"
noted Yamina El-Kirat, a member of the Amazigh community from Morocco,
where she is a linguistics professor.

"Often a key factor is that parents have the false feeling that the many
languages a child might learn will inhibit their knowledge of English,"
said Kennedy Bosire, director of the Ekegusii Encyclopedia and a language
activist from Kenya.  "To change this, we are here for a good purpose and
we want the world to know."

"For us, it's not a question of the parents consciously choosing. The only
language spoken in school is English." relayed Mfon Ibok Asanaenyi, a
barrister and an Uda language expert from Nigeria. "Also, the area is so
impoverished and there is a movement to the urban area and they switch to
the language of the urban area and then their indigenous language is lost."

Also from the Uda community, Prince Chris Abasi Eyo stated, "All
stakeholders in the project of preserving the diverse human cultures
through language revitalization have been asked to re-energize their
language activism through participatory advocacy."

The workshop at the University of Kansas in June and July, CoLang 2012
focuses on language documentation and revitalization.  Held in 2010 in
Eugene, Oregon and 2008 in Santa Barbara, California, the conference
unites linguists and community language activists to attain their common
goals.

"At this meeting, we're taking this diverse knowledge base, scientists and
community activists, and we're seeking ways to transform the world through
language activism, in the best possible way," said Phillip Cash Cash, a
Cayuse-Nez Perce speaker and scholar.

The workshop consists of two weeks of intensive short courses, followed
by an optional month-long course that implements that instruction into
collaborative practice by documenting one of three different endangered
languages.

"We can't imagine the world with one vegetable, one fruit, and language is
part of the nature of the diversity of the world," said Yamina El-Kirat.



About CoLang 2012

The CoLang Institute on Collaborative Language Research website is at
http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/

The workshop runs until July 29 and is directed by Professors Arienne Dwyer
and Carlos Nash from the Department of Anthropology at the University of
Kansas. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation, among
others.



Contact info:

This press release was written by the Activism class participants at CoLang
2012. For follow up, contact the Activism instructors/facilitators:
Phillip Cash Cash at weyiiletpu at gmail.com or 520-904-7364, and Colleen
Fitzgerald at cmfitz at uta.edu



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From Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA  Fri Jun 29 15:31:18 2012
From: Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA (Dawn McInnes)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:31:18 -0600
Subject: Hi from Gloria Bird
In-Reply-To: A<CACL86Ry4JUNNuTNhZc+WYMy1vHdF1J-7t7L1UmDh0cZuHBmwRA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUN.2012.093118.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Good day:

 

My name is Dawn McInnes and I am the Project Coordinator, Aboriginal Languages in the Official Languages Division with the Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Education, Culture and Employment.

 

I saw the request for help from Ms Bird on the issue of  writings that support tribal efforts to recover/reintroduce language into their communities, particularly  with K-12 via immersion schooling that involves teacher and parents, grandparents or other caregivers.

 

Although I do not have a lot of experience in this area, academically or otherwise, I do wish to recommend a paper entitled ? Development of the Zhahti Kue Slavey Language Program?  written by Georgina Blondin (now deceased but originally from the NWT).  This language program was in Fort Providence NWT where they now have South Slavey immersion from Kindergarten through to and including Grade 3.

 

Best of luck and let me know if Ms Bird needs any further help.

 

Dawn

 

P.S.  If Ms Bird cannot locate the article through ?googling?  ask that she contact me directly and I can scan it to her.

 

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:28 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Hi from Gloria Bird

 

?eh? (greetings),

I wish to share a request from a community member.  I am hoping our generous & esteemed members here can share info that might help in this particular instance.  

life and language always,

Phil



On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:20 AM:
> I was searching online for some academic writing on native heritage
> language.  What I am interested in are any writings that support tribal
> efforts to recover/reintroduce language into their communities, particularly
> with K-12 via immersion schooling that involves teacher and parents,
> grandparents or other caregivers.  I am working with our language department
> to solicit funding for curriculum development, and I am wondering if there
> is writing that talks about how important language is to support native
> culture.  If you know of anything that might help, are you able to send pdf
> files?  I actually need something ASAP. 

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From Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA  Fri Jun 29 16:54:31 2012
From: Dawn_McInnes at GOV.NT.CA (Dawn McInnes)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:54:31 -0600
Subject: FW: The Development of the Zhahti Koe Slavey Language Program
 (Georgina Blondin of the NWT Canada)
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUN.2012.105431.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Good day:

Here is the article about which I spoke earlier in response to Ms Bird's request for academic articles about Aboriginal community experience with instituting Aboriginal language immersion programs in schools.  Although dated, it is excellent and I know you will all enjoy it.

Currently the T???cho? Government (NWT Canada) ?s work?ng to ?nst?tute Tl??cho? ?mmers?on ?n k?ndergarten beg?nn?ng ?n the fall of 2012.  For more ?nformat?on on the?r exper?ence you may w?sh to contact J?m Mart?n at jimmarten at tlicho.com

Mahsi cho

Dawn

P.S.  Mahsi cho to the University of Victoria (BC Canada) and the En'owkin Centre for using this article as part of their Certificate Program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization

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From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG  Sat Jun 30 03:31:50 2012
From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:31:50 -0700
Subject: Yurok Class (language)
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUN.2012.203150.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Eureka City Schools board approves Yurok language class - Times-Standard Online
http://bit.ly/LKTfht

The Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved adding a Yurok I class at Eureka High School in the fall. To pay for the new class, Eureka City Schools has entered into a partnership with the Yurok Tribe.
http://bit.ly/LKTfht

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From Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG  Sat Jun 30 08:26:02 2012
From: Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:26:02 +0300
Subject: Tools for language documentation presented at Charting Vanishing
 Voices workshop
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JUN.2012.112602.0300.>

Scholars and digital archivists are coming together 29-30 June for a
workshop entitled "Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to
Map Endangered Oral Cultures." The event is being held in England at
Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities (CRASSH). Martin Raymond of SIL's Non-Roman Script Initiative
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Welcome>  will
introduce several new tools for language documentation including
<http://www.scriptsource.org/> ScriptSource and EGIDS
<http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/EGIDS.pdf> . The new ScriptSource web
site provides a venue for documenting the world's writing systems. The
Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) is designed to
establish a language's level of endangerment. This new scale will be applied
to languages in the 17th edition of Ethnologue, which is scheduled for
publication in early 2013.

 

Dave Pearson

Permanent Representative to UNESCO

SIL International

 

Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 

UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581

Office: +254 202 723 793

Skype: dave_pearson_sil

Web: www.sil.org

 

SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for
sustainable language
development, by means of research, translation, training and materials
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From a.king at ABDN.AC.UK  Sat Jun 30 11:28:43 2012
From: a.king at ABDN.AC.UK (King, Dr Alexander D.)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:28:43 +0100
Subject: Tools for language documentation presented at Charting
 Vanishing Voices workshop
In-Reply-To: <000b01cd5699$fe858280$fb908780$@org>
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JUN.2012.122843.0100.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Martin just made his presentation here at the workshop and I think that Scriptsource.org<http://Scriptsource.org> looks like a fantastic resource. I will definitely spend some hours perusing it after I get home.

Just before Martin, Lyle Campbell gave a presentation on the website endangeredlanguages.com<http://endangeredlanguages.com> and the database and catalog behind it. It is clear to me that Google was hasty to rush to publicity. The linguists have a lot to add over the next few months and years. They have received hundreds of emails and I think I will wait a year at least before suggesting additions/corrections to the languages and groups I work with.

Finally, another great resource demonstrated today is glottolog, set up by linguists at MPI EVA in Leipzig. You should all check that out at glottolog.org<http://glottolog.org>

Alex

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On Jun 30, 2012, at 9:27 AM, "Dave Pearson" <Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG<mailto:Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG>> wrote:

Scholars and digital archivists are coming together 29-30 June for a workshop entitled ?Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures.?? The event is being held in England at Cambridge University?s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Martin Raymond of SIL?s Non-Roman Script Initiative<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Welcome> will introduce several new tools for language documentation including ScriptSource<http://www.scriptsource.org/> and EGIDS<http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/EGIDS.pdf>. The new ScriptSource web site provides a venue for documenting the world?s writing systems. The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) is designed to establish a language?s level of endangerment. This new scale will be applied to languages in the 17th edition of Ethnologue, which is scheduled for publication in early 2013.

Dave Pearson
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