From WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA  Tue May  1 15:30:51 2012
From: WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA (William Firth)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 09:30:51 -0600
Subject: The language link between central Siberia, Alaska (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CAOFTfnkpV6S7YBUSfCuFNuQY3BdtU9ZTVZ=Z+H8CqLk8cYUecA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.1.MAY.2012.093051.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi,

I have taken it upon myself to find Mr. Michael Krauss' email address
and it is:

mkrauss at alaska.edu

I hope that is sufficient.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

William Firth

***********************
Mr. William G. Firth
Dinjii Zhuh K'yuu Eenjit Gwichit Nilii,
(Manager of Language Programs)
Gwich’in Social & Cultural Institute
P.O. Box 54,
Fort McPherson, NT   X0E 0J0
Ph:   (867) 952-2377
Fax: (867) 952-2433


From bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM  Tue May  1 18:20:11 2012
From: bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM (BSantaMaria)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:20:11 -0700
Subject: The language link between central Siberia, Alaska (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <fc.003d09dc024a96a03b9aca00ab267899.24a96ae@learnnet.nt.ca>
Message-ID: <TUE.1.MAY.2012.112011.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Mr. Firth:

Ashood ("thank you"),


Bernadette

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:30 AM, William Firth <WGFirth at learnnet.nt.ca>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have taken it upon myself to find Mr. Michael Krauss' email address
> and it is:
>
> mkrauss at alaska.edu
>
> I hope that is sufficient.  Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Firth
>
> ***********************
> Mr. William G. Firth
> Dinjii Zhuh K'yuu Eenjit Gwichit Nilii,
> (Manager of Language Programs)
> Gwich’in Social & Cultural Institute
> P.O. Box 54,
> Fort McPherson, NT   X0E 0J0
> Ph:   (867) 952-2377
> Fax: (867) 952-2433
>
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May  2 17:25:04 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:25:04 -0700
Subject: Another Kind of Extinction (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.2.MAY.2012.102504.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Another Kind of Extinction

By PAUL C. CASTRIGANO
Published: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
US

How many of the world’s languages can you name? No, seriously, try it out.
Take out a piece of paper and just write until your brain cannot produce
another language. My guess is that you have about twenty or thirty
languages, maximum, and most of those came from taking country names and
adding the appropriate suffix. If you named thirty, then congratulations:
That’s a staggering 0.4 percent of the world’s nearly 7,000 languages.

Human communication and language is a wondrous achievement. Unfortunately,
many of these languages are dying out, due mainly to globalization and the
worldwide reduction to fewer and fewer linguae francae. In fact, within a
century, more than half of the world’s 7,000 languages are likely to be
extinct, and once a language is gone, there is no way to bring it back
completely. Language extinction poses a grave cultural threat to our
species, and we should take far stronger stances and measures for ensuring
their preservation.

Access full article below:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/5/2/harvard-languages-dying/
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From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG  Wed May  2 19:59:50 2012
From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:59:50 -0700
Subject: Language Fair
Message-ID: <WED.2.MAY.2012.125950.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>



0:10 / 2:41



Kúmateech /Later
André Cramblit, Operations Director
andrekaruk at ncidc.org
Northern California Indian Development Council (NCIDC) (http://www.ncidc.org) 707.445.8451

To subscribe to a blog of interest to Natives send go to: 
http://andrekaruk.posterous.com/




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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu May  3 21:58:28 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:58:28 -0700
Subject: Podcast from the folks at SOAS
Message-ID: <THU.3.MAY.2012.145828.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings,

Say, the folks at SOAS University of London have a podcast worth checking
out.

*Facts for Newbies*
http://soasradio.org/content/facts-newbies-endangered-languages-week-3rd-11th-may

l8ter,
Phil
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu May  3 22:26:14 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 15:26:14 -0700
Subject: A Long Fight Begins to Save Philipine Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.3.MAY.2012.152614.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

A LONG FIGHT BEGINS TO SAVE PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES

AFP
April 30, 2012, 4:13 pm

PORAC, Philippines (AFP) - Arnel Valencia felt humiliated at school when he
was barred from using the language he spoke at home, part of a decades-long
pattern of linguistic destruction across the Philippines.

"'Stop talking like a bird. You should use English or the national
language'," Valencia, now 39 and a village elder, said his first-grade
teacher told him.

Valencia belongs to a small mountain tribe called Ayta Magindi that has for
centuries inhabited the bone-dry, sparsely forested Zambales mountains just
three hours' drive from the nation's megacity capital, Manila.

There are only 3,000 tribe members left living in and around the small
sugar farming town of Porac, guardians to one of the dozens of little-known
languages in the Southeast Asian archipelago that are under dire threat.

Access full article below:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/13559755/a-long-fight-begins-to-save-philippine-languages/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May  4 06:28:48 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:28:48 -0700
Subject: Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <THU.3.MAY.2012.232848.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Fyi,

The Australian Governement's House of Representatives have held a series of
important inquiries/hearings on language learning in Indigenous communities
throughout Australia.  You can read the transcripts of these hearings at
the following web site.  All very significant.  The most recent and perhaps
last hearing was held on May 2nd.

Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=/atsia/languages/hearings/index.htm

Perhaps our friends Down Under can enlighten us further on the significance
of these hearings.

life and language always,

Phil
ILAT
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May  4 18:43:29 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 11:43:29 -0700
Subject: Geek Speak: Jared Deck,
 Sto:lo Shxweli Halq=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99em=C3=A9yl_?=em Language
 Program (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.4.MAY.2012.114329.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Geek Speak: Jared Deck, Sto:lo Shxweli Halq’eméylem Language Program

By Stephen Hui, May 4, 2012
CA

Jared Deck is on the front lines of efforts to save endangered First
Nations languages in B.C. Through his work at the Sto:lo Nation, he’s
involved with FirstVoices, a project of the First Peoples’ Heritage,
Language and Culture Council that’s using Internet technology to help
preserve and revitalize indigenous languages.

A 34-year-old member of the Tzeachten First Nation who lives in Chilliwack,
Deck has worked at the Sto:lo Shxweli Halq’eméylem Language Program for
nine years. This past March, the program finished developing nine new
Halq’eméylem lessons for the FirstVoices Tutor language-lessons application.

Access full article below:
http://www.straight.com/article-677081/vancouver/geek-speak-jared-deck-stolo-shxweli-halqemeylem-language-program
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 21:32:58 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:32:58 -0700
Subject: How to Help an Endangered Language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.143258.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

06 May 2012
US

How to Help an Endangered Language

[media link available]

BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I’m
Barbara Klein.

BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. This week on our program, we look at
efforts to protect threatened languages. And, later, we hear some songs
about baseball.

Access full article below:
http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/How-to-Help-an-Endangered-Language-150364655.html
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From WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA  Mon May  7 21:33:04 2012
From: WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA (William Firth)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 15:33:04 -0600
Subject: How to Help an Endangered Language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.153304.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I will be out of the office until Friday, May 11th, 2012.  If this is
of an important nature, please contact my Supervisor, Sharon Snowshoe
@ (867) 952-2524.  Mahsi' and have yourself a great day!


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 21:35:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:35:10 -0700
Subject: Community revival in Aboriginal languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.143510.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Community revival in Aboriginal languages

Updated 7 May 2012, 9:45 AEST
AUS

In Australia, a community in the far west of New South Wales is hoping to
revitalise the local Aboriginal language with a new course aimed at adults.

Access full article below:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/community-revival-in-aboriginal-languages/938996
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 21:37:18 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:37:18 -0700
Subject: Inuktitut Bible For Inuit Christians In The Arctic To Be
 Available This Spring (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.143718.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Inuktitut Bible For Inuit Christians In The Arctic To Be Available This
Spring

Posted: 05/02/2012 8:32 pm
By Ron Csillag
Religion News Service

TORONTO (RNS) The Bible is by far the most translated book in history.
Portions of the Old and New Testaments have been translated into more than
2,500 languages. According to United Bible Societies, the complete Bible
has been rendered into 469 tongues as of 2010.

Add Inuktitut to that list.

Access full article below:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/inuktitut-bible-inuit-christians_n_1472627.html
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 21:42:05 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:42:05 -0700
Subject: Chukchansi Pledges $1 Million for Language Study & Revitalization
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.144205.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Chukchansi Pledges $1 Million for Language Study & Revitalization

By KSEE News
May 7, 2012
Updated May 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM PDT
US

(Press Release) The Chukchansi variety of the Yokuts language will be
preserved and revitalized thanks to a $1 million gift from the Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians to Fresno State’s College of Arts and
Humanities for the Department of Linguistics.

The gift will provide funding for programs and research support to
document, preserve and revitalize the Chukchansi language in collaboration
with the Department of Linguistics.

Access full article below:
http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Chukchansi-Pledges-1-Million-for-Language-Study--Revitalization-150494595.html
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 23:07:50 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:07:50 -0700
Subject: Search Education
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.160750.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings,

Fyi, take a look at the newly created Google's Search Education.  You will
find a plethora of lesson plans and standards.  No word yet if
native/indigenous content can be found here.

Search Education
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html

Phil
Uog
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From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Tue May  8 19:13:24 2012
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 14:13:24 -0500
Subject: women as keepers of the language
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From David.Lewis at GRANDRONDE.ORG  Tue May  8 19:14:09 2012
From: David.Lewis at GRANDRONDE.ORG (David Lewis)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 19:14:09 +0000
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <33001561.134901.1336504404280.JavaMail.root@vms075.mailsrvcs.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.191409.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

We have a lot about that

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Manager, Cultural Resources Department                                              (Go Ducks!)
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Office 503.879.1634
Cell 971.241.0380
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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tammy DeCoteau
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:13 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] women as keepers of the language

Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope to quote something.

Tammy DeCoteau
AAIA Native Language Program
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From msicoli at ALASKA.EDU  Tue May  8 19:24:59 2012
From: msicoli at ALASKA.EDU (Mark Sicoli)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:24:59 -0800
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <33001561.134901.1336504404280.JavaMail.root@vms075.mailsrvcs.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.112459.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi Tammy,

Take a look at Barbra Meek's book *We are our language: An ethnography of
language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community.    *Working
with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect
features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of
female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.

All the best,
Mark

-- 
Dr. Mark Sicoli
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
U.S.A.
Phone:   (907) 474-6884
Fax:       (907) 474-7453

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:

> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
> to quote something.
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program
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From pbkwachka at ALASKA.EDU  Tue May  8 20:08:12 2012
From: pbkwachka at ALASKA.EDU (Patricia Kwachka)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:08:12 -0400
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <CAOpNM4h9SU5Cvw_VVBxsjET6jdZgFx6qsF+ah8VqSkFwmaWsug@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.160812.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Tammy, an interesting fictional take on the role of women and language
invention, maintenance, and transmission is Suzette Hayden Elgin's *Native
Tongue*.
   Also, Koasati, a Muskogean language, is thought to have gender
differences (see Kimball, Haas) with some controversy regarding which is
more conservative/correct/transmissable.  A background assumption is that
women as mothers support the development of both forms.
  Pat Kwachka

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Mark Sicoli <msicoli at alaska.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tammy,
>
> Take a look at Barbra Meek's book *We are our language: An ethnography of
> language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community.    *Working
> with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect
> features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of
> female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.
>
> All the best,
> Mark
>
> --
> Dr. Mark Sicoli
> Assistant Professor
> University of Alaska, Fairbanks
>
> Department of Anthropology
> 310 Eielson Building
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Phone:   (907) 474-6884
> Fax:       (907) 474-7453
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
>> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
>> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
>> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
>> to quote something.
>>
>> Tammy DeCoteau
>> AAIA Native Language Program
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Tue May  8 20:15:28 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:15:28 -0400
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <33001561.134901.1336504404280.JavaMail.root@vms075.mailsrvcs.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.161528.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

That is not so, the family, the community and each other were the users and
learners of the language. It was not a responsibility of anyone:  it just
was. Of course in. this neoculture age of illusion, anyone can start any
'tradition' anyone wants to and make it traditional because you say so. It
doesn't need to have anything to do with or any connection with the people
or the community. Put it in writing in all of the languages and it will have
much more power of enforcement. I guess that's why 'the women' always tell
the men to 'be quiet' or 'shut up'...so they will not pass on any
language...hmmm...maybe you are onto something here...eh.
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
 "You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it" - P.M. Stephen
Harper
 

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Tammy DeCoteau
Sent: May-08-12 3:13 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] women as keepers of the language


Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers of
the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass language
down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for our
program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope to
quote something.

Tammy DeCoteau
AAIA Native Language Program 

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From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Tue May  8 20:35:34 2012
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:35:34 -0400
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <DEE868B08F9F42A58337F5E5FD467480@RolandHP>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.163534.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

That was a totally gratuitous and unnecessarily sexist comment.
In Australia, I've lost count of the number of stories I've heard about
women who've gone to great lengths to pass on their languages, sometimes at
great risk to their personal safety. Haven't heard too many stories about
the blokes taking the same risks. Some of these stories are documented in
the 1997 "Bringing them Home" report; others in the 2003 FEL proceedings
from the conference held in Broome (both should be easy to find). It's also
fairly well documented in a number of remote Aboriginal communities in
Australia that community language programs are overwhelmingly run by older
women (in part because of demographics, more women live longer, in part
because of other factors).
Claire

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca> wrote:

> **
> That is not so, the family, the community and each other were the users
> and learners of the language. It was not a responsibility of anyone:  it
> just was. Of course in. this neoculture age of illusion, anyone can start
> any 'tradition' anyone wants to and make it traditional because you say so.
> It doesn't need to have anything to do with or any connection with the
> people or the community. Put it in writing in all of the languages and it
> will have much more power of enforcement. I guess that's why 'the women'
> always tell the men to 'be quiet' or 'shut up'...so they will not pass on
> any language...hmmm...maybe you are onto something here...eh.
>
> wahjeh
> rolland nadjiwon
> _____________________________________
>  “*You won’t recognize Canada* *when I get through with it” *– P.M.
> Stephen Harper
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:
> ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Tammy DeCoteau
> *Sent:* May-08-12 3:13 PM
> *To:* ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> *Subject:* [ILAT] women as keepers of the language
>
> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
> to quote something.
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program
>
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From: Dmark916 at AOL.COM (Dmark916 at AOL.COM)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:46:07 -0400
Subject: women as keepers of the language
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.164607.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

In Belize and Honduras the Garifuna language (originally Arawakan, but  
with some West African influences) contains words that differ if spoken by  a 
woman or a man. Often these words are entirely distinct, and although 
mutually  intelligible, there are gender distinctions that are pervasive. I don't 
know  about any syntactical differences, but the vocabulary differences make 
this an  extremely interesting language.
 
Dorothy Martinez-K
 
 
In a message dated 5/8/2012 1:36:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
clairebowern at GMAIL.COM writes:

That was  a totally gratuitous and unnecessarily sexist comment.   
In Australia, I've lost count of the number of stories I've heard about  
women who've gone to great lengths to pass on their languages, sometimes at  
great risk to their personal safety. Haven't heard too many stories about the 
 blokes taking the same risks. Some of these stories are documented in the 
1997  "Bringing them Home" report; others in the 2003 FEL proceedings from 
the  conference held in Broome (both should be easy to find). It's also 
fairly well  documented in a number of remote Aboriginal communities in Australia 
that  community language programs are overwhelmingly run by older women (in 
part  because of demographics, more women live longer, in part because of 
other  factors).
Claire

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <_mikinakn at shaw.ca_ 
(mailto:mikinakn at shaw.ca) > wrote:


That is not so, the family, the community and  each other were the users 
and learners of the language. It was not a  responsibility of anyone:  it just 
was. Of course in. this neoculture  age of illusion, anyone can start any 
'tradition' anyone wants to and make  it traditional because you say so. It 
doesn't need to have anything to do  with or any connection with the people 
or the community. Put it in writing  in all of the languages and it will have 
much more power of enforcement. I  guess that's why 'the women' always tell 
the men to 'be quiet' or 'shut  up'...so they will not pass on any 
language...hmmm...maybe you are onto  something here...eh.
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
 “You won’t recognize Canada when I  get through with it” – P.M. Stephen 
Harper
 

 
____________________________________
 From: Indigenous Languages and Technology  
[mailto:_ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU_ (mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU) ] On Behalf Of Tammy  DeCoteau
Sent: May-08-12 3:13 PM
To: _ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU_ (mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU) 
Subject: [ILAT] women  as keepers of the language




Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the  keepers 
of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass  language 
down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking  for our 
program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and  hope to quote 
something.

Tammy DeCoteau
AAIA Native Language  Program 

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From msicoli at ALASKA.EDU  Tue May  8 20:51:12 2012
From: msicoli at ALASKA.EDU (Mark Sicoli)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:51:12 -0800
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <CAOpNM4h9SU5Cvw_VVBxsjET6jdZgFx6qsF+ah8VqSkFwmaWsug@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.125112.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Tammy,  It's actually this article by Barbra Meek that I was thinking of:

Barbra Meek "Respecting the language of elders: Ideological Shift and
Linguistic Discontinuity in a Northern Athapascan Community" Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology 2007, 17(1) 23-43


 "According to the Kaska Tribal Council (1997), there are approximately
nine dialects. Defining a family’s dialect is complicated. In most cases,
the family dialect is the one spoken by the mother, following a matrilineal
pattern. A woman’s husband often speaks his wife’s own dialect along with
his own mother’s family dialect (or language), and the children are exposed
to both parents’ linguistic varieties." p26


 She wasn't making the point that men don't speak correctly but was rather
reporting on criticisms community members were making on the speech
features students were learning in the school. For example, a student
learns to speak like a teacher who has different dialect features than
his/her own mother/grandmother:

"There were instances of correction as well, mostly directed at a person’s
word choice or pronunciation. Given that word choice and pronunciation were
the most salient indices of family dialects, an act of correction signaled
that a person hadn’t spoken in an appropriate ancestral variety. This
sociolinguistic correspondence also emerged in discussions about the public
schools’ Kaska language curriculum, where children were not always being
taught their own family’s dialect. Unsurprisingly, students were taught the
dialect of their teacher, and this caused some parents to complain to the
administration. Correction also appeared when a person spoke a non-familial
variety." p27

I think this is interestingly relevant to your original question, though
the thread has turned in other directions that I think are less
productive.  Surely it varies from community to community and situation to
situation who is involved with/motivated to work for language maintenance
and revitalization.

Best wishes,
Mark

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Mark Sicoli <msicoli at alaska.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tammy,
>
> Take a look at Barbra Meek's book *We are our language: An ethnography of
> language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community.    *Working
> with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect
> features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of
> female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.
>
> All the best,
> Mark
>
> --
> Dr. Mark Sicoli
> Assistant Professor
> University of Alaska, Fairbanks
>
> Department of Anthropology
> 310 Eielson Building
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Phone:   (907) 474-6884
> Fax:       (907) 474-7453
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
>> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
>> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
>> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
>> to quote something.
>>
>> Tammy DeCoteau
>> AAIA Native Language Program
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Dr. Mark Sicoli
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
U.S.A.
Phone:   (907) 474-6884
Fax:       (907) 474-7453
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May  8 22:33:06 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:33:06 -0700
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98Hot_spot=E2=80=99_?=languages are in danger,
 too (fwd lin k)
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‘Hot spot’ languages are in danger, too

PENN STATE (US) — Biodiversity hot spots are some of the most
linguistically diverse regions on the planet, accounting for 70 percent of
all languages on Earth.

Hot spots are considered the most rich biologically and the most threatened
locations. High biodiversity wilderness areas are those that are
biologically rich but less threatened.

In a new study published in the early online edition of Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, conservationists write that, like a region’s
species, the “languages involved frequently are unique to particular
regions, with many facing extinction.”

Access full article below:
http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/hot-spot-languages-are-in-danger-too/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May  8 22:43:23 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:43:23 -0700
Subject: Do you speak Texan? (fwd link)
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Do you speak Texan?

By Jessica Sinn, College of Liberal Arts
Published: May 7

With its sprawling pastures, gleaming skylines and rugged hills, the Lone
Star State looms large in American culture. Just the word Texas evokes
images of rootin’ tootin’ cowboys in 10-gallon hats shouting “howdy y’all!”

Venture into a honky tonk or a rural Texas town, and you’re likely to find
more slow-talking cowpokes than you can shake a stick at. Yet researchers
at The University of Texas at Austin have found Texanisms like “might
could” and “down yonder” are dissipating, especially among young city
slickers.

Access full article below:
http://www.utexas.edu/know/2012/05/07/texas_twang/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May  8 22:47:51 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:47:51 -0700
Subject: Indigenous languages disappearing as lobbying starts for
 bilingual programmes (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.154751.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

8 May, 2012 4:15PM AEST

Indigenous languages disappearing as lobbying starts for bilingual
programmes

By Sam Davis
AUS

The Chair of an Aboriginal language group in north Queensland says urgent
funding is needed before 80 per cent of indigenous languages spoken in the
region are lost.

The North Queensland Regional Aboriginal Language Corporation [NQRALC]
Chair, Troy Wyles-Whelan addressed the standing committee for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Affairs [ATSIA] on language via uplink from
Cairns last Thursday.

Mr Wyles-Whelan said the organisation struggled to reach out to remote
communities because of budget limitations.

"We're the peak body within the region and we're the largest language body
within Australia. Most of the other areas only have one or two [languages]
or maybe three at the most," he said. "My issue is about the funding of
these programmes."

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May  8 22:51:05 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:51:05 -0700
Subject: Chukchansi language to be preserved with grant (fwd link)
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Chukchansi language to be preserved with grant

Monday, May 07, 2012
US

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Every language contains a world of unique
information. In most Native American communities, language is an oral
tradition and many times it dies when the tribe's elders die.

One Central California tribe is trying to change that.

It's said that language is a window to one's culture, family and religion.

On Monday the native tongue of one of the valley's most treasured tribes
will be forever preserved thanks to a $1 million donation from the Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians to Fresno State's Department of
Linguistics.

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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Wed May  9 02:22:48 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 21:22:48 -0500
Subject: Do you speak Texan? (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86Ry8+jAUG3SiOEhMW8Sn2YFVMJku4L8cRt7s=Wd7BNUuCw@mail.gmail.com>
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 hmmm...how does a texan say   *"the flattened monophthong"*
(sounds like a roadkill rattlesnake to me)

If you *know* you have an accent...does it even qualify as an accent?

Doesn't an accent only exist when its compared to someone else's accent?

Is it even possible for Texans who speak with accents to study Texan
accents?

and where did the word "food" (as in : fude ) come from anyway?

Richard
Wyandotte Oklahoma




On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Do you speak Texan?
>
> By Jessica Sinn, College of Liberal Arts
> Published: May 7
>
> With its sprawling pastures, gleaming skylines and rugged hills, the Lone
> Star State looms large in American culture. Just the word Texas evokes
> images of rootin’ tootin’ cowboys in 10-gallon hats shouting “howdy y’all!”
>
> Venture into a honky tonk or a rural Texas town, and you’re likely to find
> more slow-talking cowpokes than you can shake a stick at. Yet researchers
> at The University of Texas at Austin have found Texanisms like “might
> could” and “down yonder” are dissipating, especially among young city
> slickers.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.utexas.edu/know/2012/05/07/texas_twang/
>



-- 
*

"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 cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May  9 04:28:26 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 21:28:26 -0700
Subject: Do you speak Texan? (fwd link)
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I thought the news article was interesting for a number of reasons.
Probably the most obvious one is how a speech pattern/dialect achieves a
kind of symbolic status when it is associated with things like "identity"
and "belonging."  Similar experiences can be found in endangered language
communities.

Too, I have always been curious if heritage language speakers in Oklahoma
and surrounding southern areas maintain a natural distinction between
speaking a southern American English dialect/accent and their own native
language or if they are somehow mixed with a "twang" (whatever that might
be).  The same interesting questions Richard poses apply here as well.

I know for many indigenous communities, it is quite easy to hear when a
native language speaker speaks with an English accent.  Some older
teachers/elders tend to mercilessly correct their student learners on
this.  But then, is it really an accent in this case or is it just simply
the consequences of acquiring a second language?

Just a few thoughts to add on here.
Phil
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From osamadre at HOTMAIL.COM  Wed May  9 13:22:45 2012
From: osamadre at HOTMAIL.COM (Leigh Thelmadatter)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 06:22:45 -0700
Subject: Wikimedia project with the Batak script and the Tropenmuseum
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Im forwarding this along because it looks like an interesting project. The Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) has been very active in the transcription and encoding for digital purposes various scripts, but this is the first project I have seen in cooperation with a museum. The Tropenmuseum is a Dutch museum dedicated to cultures found in tropical areas of the world. 

I have promoted working with Wikimedia before for linguists and I still think it is a great opportunity for linguists, especially those interested in the preservation/promotion of endangered languages, open culture and how technology is changing culture, including academia. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, just entered into an agreement with the British government to develop ways to make publicly funded research easily available to the public under free licenses.

Leigh

From: gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:47:21 +0200
To: cultural-partners at wikimedia.ch
CC: alolita.sharma at gmail.com; F.Meijer at kit.nl
Subject: [cultural-partners] Text in the Batak script

Hoi,Many collections have material that is in other languages than the language of the land and often not even in the script that people are familiar with. For some languages there are departments in universities to keep the knowledge of a language alive. This is very much to ensure that we keep an understanding of the development of our culture.


For some languages there is no attention. For some languages there is not even a way to enter texts as text in the original script on modern computers. Yet these materials can be found in archives and museums. Some of the texts shed a light on how history developed and shows how much history is written by the victor. For us Wikimedians, access to materials like these and being able to give them their place is important. Without it we cannot achieve sharing in the sum of all knowledge.. even in English.


For the Batak scripts, there are several Batak languages, we are starting a GLAM project that has two objectives:making texts in Batak currently in archives and museums available for transcription

creating a Unicode font and an input method that allows for the writing of the Batak languagesWe made a choice for the Batak script and languages because it did not have a Unicode font yet and because the Tropenmuseum has some really relevant objects. Obviously there are other languages and scripts equally deserving. What it takes is a font and a scan or photo of the objects.


The project will be in cooperation with the Tropenmuseum. The font and input method will become available in all the Wikis that have support for the MediaWiki extensions Narayam and WebFonts. Wikisource is one of them. When your project has a need for this and reached a consensus about this, you can request these extensions to be enabled in Bugzilla.

Thanks,     Gerard
PS I will be blogging about this project as things develop

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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Wed May  9 16:20:14 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 11:20:14 -0500
Subject: Do you speak Texan? (fwd link)
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interesting Phil, especially about the identity and place connection.

I'll say that there is a noticeable twang in some Okies learning their
indigenous languages.
Some can't get beyond it no matter how hard they try.

We had a visiting a Quebec Wendat woman who's involved in wendat language
revitalization.
when she heard the kids (here in NE Okl.) singing in Wyandot she said "they
sound like Americans!"
I said, "thats funny,  when i hear you speaking Wendat ,it sounds like
French!" (we both laughed)

I'm guessing second languages will always be influenced by the speakers
first language.
its why its so important to bring kids up with more than one language EARLY.

its also much harder to reach consensus for those of us rousing dormant
languages.
when there ARE NO ELDERS to pester us by demanding we "say it right"

Richard



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> I thought the news article was interesting for a number of reasons.
> Probably the most obvious one is how a speech pattern/dialect achieves a
> kind of symbolic status when it is associated with things like "identity"
> and "belonging."  Similar experiences can be found in endangered language
> communities.
>
> Too, I have always been curious if heritage language speakers in Oklahoma
> and surrounding southern areas maintain a natural distinction between
> speaking a southern American English dialect/accent and their own native
> language or if they are somehow mixed with a "twang" (whatever that might
> be).  The same interesting questions Richard poses apply here as well.
>
> I know for many indigenous communities, it is quite easy to hear when a
> native language speaker speaks with an English accent.  Some older
> teachers/elders tend to mercilessly correct their student learners on
> this.  But then, is it really an accent in this case or is it just simply
> the consequences of acquiring a second language?
>
> Just a few thoughts to add on here.
> Phil
>



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From msicoli at ALASKA.EDU  Wed May  9 18:57:12 2012
From: msicoli at ALASKA.EDU (Mark Sicoli)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:57:12 -0800
Subject: Job Posting: Visiting Asst Prof Linguistic Anthropology
Message-ID: <WED.9.MAY.2012.105712.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistic Anthropology

University of Alaska Fairbanks



The department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks seeks
to fill a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Linguistic Anthropology
for the academic year 2012-2013.  We seek applicants who have a strong
background in and knowledge of the study of language, culture and social
life, and a record of teaching excellence.  Course responsibilities would
include a graduate core class surveying original works in the history of
linguistics and linguistic anthropology, undergraduate classes in
“Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology,” “Language and Culture” or
“Ethnopoetics” and two other courses developed in consultation with
faculty.  The Department of Anthropology of the University of Alaska
Fairbanks is a four-field department with faculty conducting research in
many regions of the world and with a particularly strong focus on the
Circumpolar North and the study of Alaska Native Languages.  The regional
specialization for this position is open, though the successful applicant
would be able to help advise students with varied regional interests.  This
is a 9-month appointment.



The position will remain open until filled though review of applications
will begin immediately.  Applicants should apply through
www.uakjobs.com(Job Posting 0064029) submitting a one-page letter of
application, CV, a
one-page teaching statement, one sample of written work, and the names and
contact information of three references.  For questions contact Dr. Mark
Sicoli msicoli at alaska.edu


-- 
Dr. Mark Sicoli
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
U.S.A.
Phone:   (907) 474-6884
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May  9 20:32:27 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 13:32:27 -0700
Subject: War of words over tribal tongue (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.9.MAY.2012.133227.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

War of words over tribal tongue
Debate highlights pitfalls in studying minority languages.

Eugenie Samuel Reich
09 May 2012
US

It wasn’t long after his translation of the Gospel of St Mark failed to
interest the Pirahã tribe members he was trying to convert to Christianity
that Daniel Everett, then a missionary and linguistic anthropologist, began
to doubt what he had learned about the foundations of human language.

Thirty years on, Everett, now at Bentley University in Waltham,
Massachusetts, has long since left missionary work, but his study of the
Pirahã tongue has increasingly cast him in the role of heretic in a battle
over the influence of culture in shaping the structure of a language. The
debate has resurfaced with the publication in March of his book Language:
The Cultural Tool and a related television documentary scheduled to be
broadcast this week in the United States. But as Everett’s controversial
views gain attention, other scholars are beginning to question his
interpretations.

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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Thu May 10 14:45:18 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:45:18 -0500
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <CAOpNM4jc+6Yd3gLB8gaGFU9ZBH7A+ESFi9YvKhNgycEqEb84iw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.10.MAY.2012.094518.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I imagine wherever patriarchalism has been forceful and domineering,
we have a raw-nervy sensitivity to gender issues that won't be felt within
a culture
that has not had the gender dominance problems "western culture" has had.
It might even be that some understandings of "fairness" are going to vary
from culture to culture.
Some might be content where we would be uncomfortable...or even outraged.

its always enlightening to discover cultures that have much less gender
inequalities.
1000 year sustainable cultures really need a lot more serious
investigation!!

-Richard



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Mark Sicoli <msicoli at alaska.edu> wrote:

> Tammy,  It's actually this article by Barbra Meek that I was thinking of:
>
> Barbra Meek "Respecting the language of elders: Ideological Shift and
> Linguistic Discontinuity in a Northern Athapascan Community" Journal of
> Linguistic Anthropology 2007, 17(1) 23-43
>
>
>  "According to the Kaska Tribal Council (1997), there are approximately
> nine dialects. Defining a family’s dialect is complicated. In most cases,
> the family dialect is the one spoken by the mother, following a matrilineal
> pattern. A woman’s husband often speaks his wife’s own dialect along with
> his own mother’s family dialect (or language), and the children are exposed
> to both parents’ linguistic varieties." p26
>
>
>  She wasn't making the point that men don't speak correctly but was rather
> reporting on criticisms community members were making on the speech
> features students were learning in the school. For example, a student
> learns to speak like a teacher who has different dialect features than
> his/her own mother/grandmother:
>
> "There were instances of correction as well, mostly directed at a person’s
> word choice or pronunciation. Given that word choice and pronunciation were
> the most salient indices of family dialects, an act of correction signaled
> that a person hadn’t spoken in an appropriate ancestral variety. This
> sociolinguistic correspondence also emerged in discussions about the public
> schools’ Kaska language curriculum, where children were not always being
> taught their own family’s dialect. Unsurprisingly, students were taught the
> dialect of their teacher, and this caused some parents to complain to the
> administration. Correction also appeared when a person spoke a non-familial
> variety." p27
>
> I think this is interestingly relevant to your original question, though
> the thread has turned in other directions that I think are less
> productive.  Surely it varies from community to community and situation to
> situation who is involved with/motivated to work for language maintenance
> and revitalization.
>
> Best wishes,
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Mark Sicoli <msicoli at alaska.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tammy,
>>
>> Take a look at Barbra Meek's book *We are our language: An ethnography
>> of language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community.    *Working
>> with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect
>> features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of
>> female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Mark
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Mark Sicoli
>> Assistant Professor
>> University of Alaska, Fairbanks
>>
>> Department of Anthropology
>> 310 Eielson Building
>> P.O. Box 757720
>> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
>> U.S.A.
>> Phone:   (907) 474-6884
>> Fax:       (907) 474-7453
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
>>> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
>>> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
>>> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
>>> to quote something.
>>>
>>> Tammy DeCoteau
>>> AAIA Native Language Program
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Mark Sicoli
> Assistant Professor
> University of Alaska, Fairbanks
>
> Department of Anthropology
> 310 Eielson Building
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Phone:   (907) 474-6884
> Fax:       (907) 474-7453
>
>


-- 
*

"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 andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG  Fri May 11 18:23:23 2012
From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 11:23:23 -0700
Subject: CHICKASAW.TV (Language)
Message-ID: <FRI.11.MAY.2012.112323.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Innovative Chickasaw language website including streaming videos

http://www.chickasaw.tv/#/language


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May 11 19:07:57 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:07:57 -0700
Subject: Honoring our elders, establishing our traditions (fwd link)
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Honoring our elders, establishing our traditions

Posted: May 10, 2012 - 12:01am
By XH'UNEI -- LANCE TWITCHELL
FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE
US

Last week I was blessed with the opportunity to watch the Children’s
Celebration take place in Centennial Hall. I sat next to my clan grandson
Kingheestí, and near many of my favorite people in the world who are
working tirelessly to revitalize our Tlingit language. There were many
times when I looked up at the stage to see a young boy or girl speaking
Tlingit, singing in Tlingit, and I watched through unabashed tears of joy.
And in many of those moments, those around me were doing the same. We would
laugh loudly because something wonderful was happening. This is what we
have been fighting for, and now we are beginning to realize the
possibilities.

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From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May 11 20:45:17 2012
From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Rudolph C Troike/LingFacultyRetired/UA)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:45:17 -0700
Subject: Language Revitalization in 21st C. symposium 31 May-1 June
Message-ID: <FRI.11.MAY.2012.134517.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


(I'm not sure how well this will forward -- there is an inline flier. Rudy)

Language Revitalization in the 21st Century symposium 31 May-1 June

We are pleased to announce an upcoming symposium in New York City
31 May - 1 June 2012

Language Revitalization in the 21st Century: Going Global, Staying Local
Due to limited space please pre-register online at
http://language2012.eventbrite.com/
For more information visit
http://opencuny.org/languagerevitalizationinthe21stcentury/ or stay informed by
liking our facebook page:
www.facebook.com/cunyaut2012<http://www.facebook.com/cunyaut2012>

[cid:4694B65A-9EC1-4078-BDD8-D710EE9C01E2]

Also join us for ELA's upcoming event

Mexican Indigenous Languages in New York
Discover Mexico's national treasure trove of indigenous languages here in New
York! Descubre el tesoro nacional de México, sus lenguas indígenas aquí en
Nueva York.

El Museo del Barrio
Sunday, June 10, 2012
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
El Teatro
Admission: Free

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders and the Endangered Language
Alliance (ELA) join forces to present this special program at El Museo
featuring short videos in various Mexican languages, cultural performances, and
a panel discussion on the role of these languages in New York. Come celebrate
our indigenous communities in this urban landscape, and learn more about the
linguistic diversity that lies therein.

Mano a Mano: Cultura Mexicana Sin Fronteras y Endangered Language Alliance (ELA)
unen fuerzas para presentar este programa especial en El Museo con vídeos cortos
en diversas lenguas mexicanas, presentaciones culturales, y una charla académica
sobre el papel de estas lenguas en Nueva York. Celebra a nuestras comunidades
indígenas en este panorama urbano, y aprende más acerca de la diversidad
lingüística New Yorkina.

NOTE: Speaking portions of this program are presented in English.

For details, visit:
http://www.elmuseo.org/en/event/mexican-indigenous-languages-new-york

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May 14 05:58:46 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 22:58:46 -0700
Subject: Crowd gathers for Alaska Native languages workshop (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SUN.13.MAY.2012.225846.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Crowd gathers for Alaska Native languages workshop

10:48 PM, May. 7, 2012
By Rachel D'Oro

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (WTW) — Two decades ago, Hishinlai' Kathy Sikorski could
not speak her ancestral language, Gwich'in Athabascan. Now she teaches it
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

"When I was hired as a UAF language instructor in 2002, I was scared, very
scared because I had no idea how to teach a language," Sikorski told a
crowd gathered in Anchorage on Monday to talk about efforts to revitalize
Alaska Native languages.

Sikorski, who began learning Gwich'in 17 years ago, developed her teaching
skills by learning even more about the learning process, eventually
creating her own lesson plans and making her own materials "from scratch,"
she said, reading from a prepared statement.

"Language learners need support, emotional or otherwise, from fluid
speakers, politicians, educational settings, et cetera," she said.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May 14 06:01:57 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:01:57 -0700
Subject: The last word: Kusunda language set to die out because only one
 speaker is left (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SUN.13.MAY.2012.230157.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

14 May 2012 00:01
UK
*
The last word: Kusunda language set to die out because only one speaker is
left*

Only about 100 Kusunda tribespeople remain, but Gyani Maiya Sen is the only
one who can speak the language

AN entire language is set to die out because only one person remains alive
who speaks it.

Tribeswoman Gyani Maiya Sen, 75, is fluent in Kusunda – a language from
western Nepal of unknown origins and mysterious sentence structures which
has baffled linguists for years.

Only about 100 Kusunda tribespeople remain, but Ms Sen is the only one who
can speak the language. It has made her the main focus for campaigners who
are eager to preserve the “important” tongue.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May 14 06:22:01 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:22:01 -0700
Subject: Conference at TRU focuses on saving indigenous languages (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <SUN.13.MAY.2012.232201.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Conference at TRU focuses on saving indigenous languages

MAY 11, 2012
BY MICHELE YOUNG
DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORTER
CA

Of all the aboriginal languages and dialects spoken in Canada, only Cree is
probably safe from fading into the past.

The rest require conscious efforts to be passed down from generation to
generation.

And that’s what a conference gathering at Thompson Rivers University May 17
to 19 is all about, said organizer Jack Miller, who is also an assistant
professor in the university’s school of education.

This is the 19th year for the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages conference
and the third time it’s been held in Canada.

“Stabilizing is a nice word for revitalizing or to keep the language
alive,” Miller said Friday.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May 14 06:31:55 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:31:55 -0700
Subject: Bangladesh tribals fear linguistic 'genocide' (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SUN.13.MAY.2012.233155.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Bangladesh tribals fear linguistic 'genocide'

SUNDAY, 13 MAY 2012 13:29

DALOIPARA: Bangladesh can justly claim to be a nation born of language, but
its status as a cradle of linguistic diversity is under threat from
nationalist pride and economic growth.

Of the more than 30 recognised languages spoken in Bangladesh, experts say
20 are now on the verge of extinction.

Many like the Laleng language spoken by the 2,000-strong Patra tribe in the
country's far northeast are inherently vulnerable, having no script and
relying instead on a rich but fragile oral tradition of folk songs and
story telling.

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From annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG  Mon May 14 15:27:04 2012
From: annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG (Anna Luisa Daigneault)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 11:27:04 -0400
Subject: CHICKASAW.TV (Language)
In-Reply-To: <0B367D21-EC3C-499D-B54D-ADFBD8086258@ncidc.org>
Message-ID: <MON.14.MAY.2012.112704.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

This is amazing! thanks for sending the link! A great inspiration.
~Anna

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org>wrote:

> Innovative Chickasaw language website including streaming videos
>
> http://www.chickasaw.tv/#/language
>



-- 
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 donaghy at HAWAII.EDU  Tue May 15 06:38:17 2012
From: donaghy at HAWAII.EDU (Keola Donaghy)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:38:17 -1000
Subject: Bank of Hawaii ATMs Will Offer
 =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98=C5=8Clelo_Haw_ai=E2=80=98i?=
Message-ID: <MON.14.MAY.2012.203817.1000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

http://mauinow.com/2012/05/14/bank-of-hawaii-installing-hawaiian-language-on-atms/

“Aloha mai.” That’s the message that will greet Bank of Hawaii ATM users when the bank rolls out its Hawaiian language capability later this year.

The Bank of Hawaii in cooperation with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Hawaii Tourism Authority is giving customers the capability to make transactions in the Hawaiian language. More than 400 ATMs are expected to be ready by sometime this summer.

“This is important to help perpetuate the Hawaiian language and our host culture. We’re proud to be the first financial institution to offer Hawaiian language capability on its ATM network,” said Peter Ho, chairman and chief executive officer of the Bank of Hawaii, in a written statement.

“OHA congratulates the Bank of Hawaii’s leadership for being the first to include Hawaiian language as an ATM option. It’s a milestone event that recognizes the Hawaiian language as a relevant form of mainstream communication,” said Peter Apo, a trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

“When we incorporate the Hawaiian language in our day-to-day activities, it will become a living language in our home, Hawai‘i,” said Hawai‘i Tourism Authority President and CEO Mike McCartney.

The Hawaiian language option for the ATMs will include words such as “ahu kīko‘o,” or “checking account” and “mīkini huki kālā” or “automated teller machine (ATM).”

Like any other language, Hawaiian evolves to include new and modern words. However, a number of the words that will be used in the ATM option are taken from 19th century banking advertisements found in Hawaiian language newspapers. During the 1800s Hawaiian language was used in the banking business as well as other aspects of life in that era.


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Keola Donaghy                                           
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  Tue May 15 19:26:54 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:26:54 -0700
Subject: More Indigenous language and culture needed on Canada's airwaves
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.15.MAY.2012.122654.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

More Indigenous language and culture needed on Canada's airwaves

BY JOANNE PENHALE | MAY 14, 2012
CA

Vancouver Co-op Radio is a hotbed for First Nations cultural programming
and a tool for Indigenous language revitalization. Long-time programmer
Gunargie O'Sullivan wants the trend to spread to radio stations across
country -- by law. And she says the Canadian government has an obligation
to make that happen.

"If Canada wants to reconcile with First Nations people in regards to the
residential school area, it should be law to include First Nations programs
from whichever territory radio stations are broadcasting in," O'Sullivan
says.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 16 20:03:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:03:10 -0700
Subject: Breaking the Language Barrier (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2012.130310.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

fyi...

Langscape, Volume II, Issue
10<http://www.terralingua.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=Lang_II_10.pdf>
2012-05
Breaking the Language Barrier: a Biocultural Approach to Documenting Oral
Literature.
http://www.terralingua.org/blog/2012/05/15/lang_ii_1/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 16 20:18:32 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:18:32 -0700
Subject: Call for more money for Indigenous languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2012.131832.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Call for more money for Indigenous languages

Margaret Paul
Updated May 16, 2012 10:22:23
AUS

The New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) is
urging the federal government to set up a trust fund to protect indigenous
languages.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 16 20:19:46 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:19:46 -0700
Subject: Indigenous language circle in Broken Hill (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2012.131946.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Indigenous language circle in Broken Hill

Margaret Paul
Updated May 16, 2012 09:29:48
AUS

Language experts have met for a two-day conference in Broken Hill to
promote teaching Aboriginal languages.

The Paakantyi Language Sharing Circle involves teachers and elders from
across the far west, as well as Mildura.

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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Thu May 17 05:00:37 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 01:00:37 -0400
Subject: Breaking the Language Barrier (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RyYx92VE_v7-d0xxChDz-C=oNVnYBUj_DFgFR=zi35i6g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.17.MAY.2012.010037.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Thanks Phil...great site, Terralingua. Supposedly, Plato said or suggested
in 'The Phaedrus' that  writing is the death of language. I really wasn't
there to hear him so I definitely stand to be corrected....
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
 If you believe in psycho-kinesis, please raise my hand....

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: May-16-12 4:03 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Breaking the Language Barrier (fwd link)


fyi...

Langscape, Volume II, Issue 10
<http://www.terralingua.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php
?id=Lang_II_10.pdf> 
2012-05
Breaking the Language Barrier: a Biocultural Approach to Documenting Oral
Literature. 
http://www.terralingua.org/blog/2012/05/15/lang_ii_1/


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May 18 23:33:19 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:33:19 -0700
Subject: 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks Them)
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8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks Them)

by Kyle Ellison (RSS feed) on May 18th 2012 at 11:00AM

As anyone who follows my articles here on Gadling knows by now, I don't
travel to relax poolside at a resort or sip a fancy drink with coconut oil.
I travel because this world is a fascinating place.

While everyone has their own travel philosophy and reasons for wanting to
get away, I know that for many travelers, one of the greatest joys of
travel is experiencing other cultures and peeking into corners of the
world, which are far removed from our own. This could range from immersing
yourself in a culture with a different religion, cuisine, or something as
simple as driving on the other side of the road.

More often than not, however, one of the largest indicators that we "aren't
in Kansas anymore" is traveling to a place with a language that is
different from our own. With linguists estimating there are over 7,000
languages spread across the globe, there is little to no chance of any
traveler ever having the opportunity to properly experience them all.
Furthermore, as Gadling blogger Kraig Becker points out, there are still
uncontacted tribes in parts of the Amazon where we don't even know what
language they speak yet.

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http://www.gadling.com/2012/05/18/8-languages-youve-never-heard-of-and-who-actually-speaks-them/
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From WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA  Fri May 18 23:33:22 2012
From: WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA (William Firth)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:33:22 -0600
Subject: 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks
 Them) (fwd
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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!


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May 18 23:35:16 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:35:16 -0700
Subject: Play honors =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98Mvskoke_Way=E2=80=99_?=(fwd link)
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May 17, 2012

Play honors ‘Mvskoke Way’

By Chesley Oxendine
Phoenix Correspondent
US

Bacone College hosts a live celebration of language culture Saturday night,
courtesy of Thunder Road Theater.

The Tulsa-based troupe holds its collaborative production “The Mvskoke Way”
at 7:30 p.m. at Bacone’s Palmer Center. Tickets are $5 at the door.

“The Mvskoke Way” features “collectively created humorous skits, Native
storytelling and audience participation,” says Thunder Road co-founder Jana
Butler-Rhoads.

One skit revolves around a grandfather teaching his city-born grandson how
to fish, while the other concerns a mother educating her daughter on
gardening. Both pieces are performed using a combination of Creek and
English languages.

Creek storytellers also take the stage to spin bilingual tales, as well as
a language game the actors will play with the audience.

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http://muskogeephoenix.com/features/x1647278049/Play-honors-Mvskoke-Way
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat May 19 00:12:16 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:12:16 -0700
Subject: Okinawans push to preserve unique language (fwd link)
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40 YEARS AFTER REVERSION

Okinawans push to preserve unique language

By AYAKO MIE
Staff writer
JAPAN

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. — Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis.

Part of it is his looks. He's Japanese, born to a white American father and
an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take more
after his dad. But it's when he speaks that people are really taken aback.

Fija is often asked why he speaks in Okinawa "hogen" (dialect), from people
who assume he is a foreigner.

More disconcerting is that he is asked this by fellow Okinawans, who should
recognize what he is saying. Most recently, this occurred when he was asked
about the Okinawan language during the taping of a Naha TV program.

"I don't speak a dialect (of Japanese)," Fija protested when an
Okinawa-born comedian questioned him about the way he speaks. "I speak
Uchinaguchi, which is an independent language."

Access full article below:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
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From bischoff.st at GMAIL.COM  Sun May 20 01:13:50 2012
From: bischoff.st at GMAIL.COM (s.t. bischoff)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 21:13:50 -0400
Subject: Okinawans push to preserve unique language
Message-ID: <SAT.19.MAY.2012.211350.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hello all,

An interesting article in the Japan Times today about Uchiniaguchi....

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
Okinawans push to preserve unique language
By *AYAKO MIE<http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/JTsearch5.cgi?term1=AYAKO%20MIE>
*
Staff writer
*Last in a series*

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. — Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis.

Part of it is his looks. He's Japanese, born to a white American father and
an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take more
after his dad. But it's when he speaks that people are really taken aback.

Fija is often asked why he speaks in Okinawa "hogen" (dialect), from people
who assume he is a foreigner.

More disconcerting is that he is asked this by fellow Okinawans, who should
recognize what he is saying. Most recently, this occurred when he was asked
about the Okinawan language during the taping of a Naha TV program.

"I don't speak a dialect (of Japanese)," Fija protested when an
Okinawa-born comedian questioned him about the way he speaks. "I speak
Uchinaguchi, which is an independent language."

Fija actually teaches Uchinaguchi, the local language spoken on the
southern half of the main island of Okinawa.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
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From hsouter at GMAIL.COM  Sun May 20 01:55:47 2012
From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 20:55:47 -0500
Subject: Okinawans push to preserve unique language
In-Reply-To: <CABBCDhqRw8D7TyMNxJf-KbOnYVR98FyFU=chXA2t_s9Dy=yr-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Taanshi, hello, all,

For a more in depth interview/article with/on Fija Byron (Yes, this is the
correct spelling.), please see:

http://japanfocus.org/-Fija-Bairon/2586

 *“Wanne Uchinanchu – I am Okinawan.” Japan, the US and Okinawa’s
Endangered Languages*

*Fija Bairon and Patrick Heinrich *

*
*

*Patrick Heinrich interviews Fija Bairon on Okinawa’s endangered languages
and culture, and efforts to restore them.*


The proportion of languages and of nation states stands roughly at a
relation of 1 to 30. Hence, the predominant number of nation states is
multilingual. Japan, notwithstanding its modern monolingual
self-perception, is no exception. As with many other nation states,
Japanhas merely been invented as an “imagined community” of
monolingual and
monocultural members. The effects of monolingual and monocultural nation
imagining are far-reaching for linguistic and cultural minorities, in Japan
as in many other places across the world. For minorities, modernisation and
incorporation often went hand in hand with pressures to abandon local
languages and cultures. Monolingual nation-imagining ideology is one of the
major forces behind the unprecedented loss of linguistic diversity we are
witnessing today. Experts project that only 10-15% of the world's 6,000
languages are safe from extinction. In Japan, the Ainu languages, the
Ryukyuan languages and Ogasawara-Creole English are extremely endangered
while Japanese and Japanese sign language are safe. Many minority community
members are aware of such “dark sides of modernity.” In this article
Okinawan language and cultural activist Fija Bairon speaks on the discovery
of his Okinawan identity and on his attempts to maintain and revitalize
Uchinaguchi, one of five Ryukyuan languages. An introduction addresses
issues of Ryukyuan language endangerment and the local attempts of language
revitalization.

 Read full article at: http://japanfocus.org/-Fija-Bairon/2586



On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM, s.t. bischoff <bischoff.st at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> An interesting article in the Japan Times today about Uchiniaguchi....
>
> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
> Okinawans push to preserve unique language
> By *AYAKO MIE<http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/JTsearch5.cgi?term1=AYAKO%20MIE>
> *
> Staff writer
> *Last in a series*
>
> NAHA, Okinawa Pref. — Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis.
>
> Part of it is his looks. He's Japanese, born to a white American father
> and an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take
> more after his dad. But it's when he speaks that people are really taken
> aback.
>
> Fija is often asked why he speaks in Okinawa "hogen" (dialect), from
> people who assume he is a foreigner.
>
> More disconcerting is that he is asked this by fellow Okinawans, who
> should recognize what he is saying. Most recently, this occurred when he
> was asked about the Okinawan language during the taping of a Naha TV
> program.
>
> "I don't speak a dialect (of Japanese)," Fija protested when an
> Okinawa-born comedian questioned him about the way he speaks. "I speak
> Uchinaguchi, which is an independent language."
>
> Fija actually teaches Uchinaguchi, the local language spoken on the
> southern half of the main island of Okinawa.
>
> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
>
>
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From dwhieb at GMAIL.COM  Tue May 22 00:56:50 2012
From: dwhieb at GMAIL.COM (Daniel W. Hieber)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:56:50 -0400
Subject: Fwd: locating audio collections that are at risk
Message-ID: <MON.21.MAY.2012.205650.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

A request from Nick Thieberger over at the Linguistic Typology listserv.

Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Nick Thieberger <thien at UNIMELB.EDU.AU>
> Date: May 21, 2012 8:04:08 PM EDT
> To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: locating audio collections that are at risk
> Reply-To: thien at unimelb.edu.au
> 
> I am writing to ask for your help in compiling a list of linguistic
> recordings that need to be digitised.
> 
> PARADISEC is a project that has been locating collections of
> recordings in small and endangered languages (see the current catalog:
> http://bit.ly/SearchParadisec) and digitising them where possible.
> 
> We are currently collecting information about further such collections
> and are asking if you could fill in a brief survey form (4 questions,
> listed below) on this page:
> http://www.paradisec.org.au/PDSCSurvey.html
> 
> Please feel free to distribute this message.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Nick Thieberger
> 
> *************************
> Project Manager,
> Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered
> Cultures (PARADISEC) http://paradisec.org.au
> 
> 
> 1. Do you know of recordings of small or endangered languages that are
> not yet digitised? These could be in personal collections or in
> established repositories that do not plan to digitise their
> collections. If so, please provide as much detail as you can about the
> number and type of recordings (reel to reel, cassette, DAT etc), the
> content, and the state of their current storage. Can you provide
> information about who to contact about these collections?
> 
> 2. Do you know of collections whose catalogs are not available through
> federated searches (that is, they are only available if you visit
> their website and not anywhere else on the web) and for which we could
> provide a reference to make it easier to find them?
> 
> 3. Do you know of repositories of manuscripts that have received
> little attention from linguists but which are likely, in your opinion,
> to have linguistic records in them? These may include, for example,
> missionary archives or State administrative archives.
> 
> 4. Please include your name and contact email so we can follow up with
> you if necessary (email addresses will not be added to any lists).
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May 22 06:37:55 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:37:55 -0700
Subject: BOOKS: Can language preservation battle be won? (fwd link)
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BOOKS: Can language preservation battle be won?

By RICHARD L. CARRICO For the North County Times
US

Imagine speaking a language that is spoken by fewer than 200 people.
Visualize a culture where much of your spirituality, moral codes and
traditions are transmitted solely through spoken stories. Now put yourself
into a society where your sacred stories are seen by the dominant culture
around you as being nothing more than quaint, childish tales.

That and more is the linguistic and cultural plight of scores of native
people in our hemisphere. From at least 500 major languages spoken at the
time of Columbus' arrival in the Americas, many scholars believe that fewer
than 200 are spoken today. Worse yet, perhaps as many as 90 percent of the
languages extant today are now threatened with extinction or are spoken by
only a handful of elderly people.

Access full article below:
http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/books-can-language-preservation-battle-be-won/article_c86293bf-ac0b-57c6-be28-6b6a4668c379.html
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May 22 06:39:30 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:39:30 -0700
Subject: Bemidji incorporates Ojibwe into city=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=signs
 and  daily life (fwd link)
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Bemidji incorporates Ojibwe into city’s signs and daily life

By Cynthia Boyd | 05/21/12
US

Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a
“foreign” language.

That’s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in
Minnesota may be the only town off a reservation trying to incorporate the
area’s indigenous Ojibwe language into daily life.

All over town Ojibwe language signs are posted right alongside English
language labels, and for a just cause. The signage is part of a broader
effort to preserve the language spoken by an estimated 60,000 persons
across areas of the northern United States and into Canada as well as to
bridge cultural divides between whites and American Indians.

Access full article below:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May 22 06:42:16 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:42:16 -0700
Subject: Native American language advocate dies; Tom Parsons spent years
 promoting teaching of Indian languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.21.MAY.2012.234216.0700.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.

Tom Parsons' son Tim Parsons described him as a great father and an
altruistic, driven man.

”Somebody who really enjoyed life,” Tim Parsons said. “He just cared a
great deal about people.”


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May 22 21:46:18 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 14:46:18 -0700
Subject: NG Explorers Help Record
 =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CHizzle=E2=80=9D_?=Language (fwd  link)
Message-ID: <TUE.22.MAY.2012.144618.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

NG Explorers Help Record “Hizzle” Language

Posted by Andrew Howley on May 21, 2012

The Enduring Voices Project strives to preserve endangered languages by
identifying language hotspots—the places on our planet with the most
unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages—and
documenting the languages and cultures within them.

By Gregory Anderson of the Enduring Voices Project

The 2012 Enduring Voices expedition to the Siberia Language Hotspot has
allowed us to explore the current state of the Xyzyl (pronounced hizzle)
language from the Republic of Xakasia (pronounced ha-KAH-see-ya, also
spelled “Khakasiya”).

We traveled across the birch-covered hills of southern Siberia and into the
wind-swept steppe dotted with ancient burial mounds until we reached the
Xyzyl territory northwest of Mongolia. We visited five villages and
identified fifty to sixty total speakers and semi-speakers.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 23 18:43:41 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:43:41 -0700
Subject: Preserving indigenous languages in Pacific a major challenge (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <WED.23.MAY.2012.114341.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Preserving indigenous languages in Pacific a major challenge

Posted at 06:38 on 22 May, 2012 UTC
NZ

New Zealand’s Associate Minister of Education Pita Sharples says preserving
languages across the Pacific is a major challenge given their large numbers
in some countries.

Mr Sharples attended the Pacific Islands Forum Ministers of Education
meeting in Vanuatu last week where increasing literacy levels and
recommitting to native language education were key themes.

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http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=68363
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From hsouter at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 24 21:14:05 2012
From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 16:14:05 -0500
Subject: Michif Language: First Ever University Level Course
Message-ID: <THU.24.MAY.2012.161405.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Taanshi!  Taansi!  Boñzhur!  Hello!

We are pleased to announce that the University of Alberta's Canadian
Indigenous Language and Literacy Development Institute will offer its first
ever university-level course on the Michif language this summer!  Anyone
interested in Michif is welcome to attend.  Please see the poster for more
details.

Featured is elder Grace (Le Doux) Zoldy, a fluent speaker of Michif from
Camperville, Manitoba. Elder Zoldy's mother tongue is Michif.  She is a
tireless advocate for the revitalization and documentation of the language
(especially the use of the Master-Apprentice method) and has been honored
for her work many times. She also has been a consultant for a number of
major linguistic studies of Michif and has authored a book of prayers in
the language.

Co-instructing with "Ma Tant Grace" are Olivia Sammons (PhD student,
University of Alberta)  and Heather Souter (Michif Language Apprentice and
community scholar). Olivia is a doctoral student in linguistics with an
interest in language documentation and revitalization. She has experience
with Algonquian languages, in particular Sauk and Michif, and has been
involved with Michif language projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Heather Souter (Guiboche) is a Michif language advocate and lives in
Camperville, Manitoba where she has been learning the language from Elder
Zoldy.  Heather has attended sessions of both CILLDI and AILDI, pursued
graduate studies at the Universities of Kansas and Lethbridge, and now
works as an independent researcher.

Please use the contact information on the poster to register for the
course, or get in touch to find out more. We hope to see you there!

Eekoshi!

Heather Souter

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From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM  Sat May 26 04:35:04 2012
From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 21:35:04 -0700
Subject: PBS interview with Natalie Diaz --
Message-ID: <FRI.25.MAY.2012.213504.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

This is an introductory interview with Natalie Diaz -- Poet and Mojave
language activist -- about language and revitalization and more --
A longer PBS special will air soon!

http://video.pbs.org/video/2233488990

-- 
**********************************************************************************************
*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 mhermes at UMN.EDU  Sat May 26 13:30:22 2012
From: mhermes at UMN.EDU (Mary Hermes)
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 08:30:22 -0500
Subject: send a copy?
In-Reply-To: <CAMrsiFyiws_nD2g8qaD7vkWr_hZWyxS9dU8cDWpxrS-vy4qP6A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.26.MAY.2012.083022.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi Susan,
Can you send me a copy of :
Penfield, S., Cash Cash, P., Galla, C. K., Williams, T., & Shadowwalker, D. (2006).
Technology-enhanced language revitalization (2nd ed.). Tucson, AZ: Arizona
Board of Regents, University of Arizona.

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



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





On May 25, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Susan Penfield wrote:

> This is an introductory interview with Natalie Diaz -- Poet and Mojave language activist -- about language and revitalization and more -- 
> A longer PBS special will air soon!
> 
> http://video.pbs.org/video/2233488990
> 
> -- 
> **********************************************************************************************
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 


From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat May 26 17:40:16 2012
From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike))
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:40:16 +0000
Subject: FW: LD&C Volume 6
In-Reply-To: <CAEuNOb9Vw6_jYX0uu3kgMbgKKS0PUf47VxLHyrJiiwP_1YvXLA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.26.MAY.2012.174016.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


________________________________________
From: owner-ldcsubscribers-l at lists.hawaii.edu [owner-ldcsubscribers-l at lists.hawaii.edu] on behalf of Nick Thieberger [thien at unimelb.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 11:14 PM
To: LDCSUBSCRIBERS-L at lists.hawaii.edu
Subject: LD&C Volume 6

Dear LD&C subscriber,

We are pleased to announce that we have uploaded six new articles and
two technology reviews for Volume 6 of the journal.

They are listed below and can be found here:
http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/current/

As usual, we upload items as they proceed through our production queue
and notify you twice a year of their availability.

We also put announcements on our FaceBook site,
https://www.facebook.com/ldcjournal (Please feel free to 'Like' us to
help spred the word)

Thanks for your continued support of LD&C,

Nick Thieberger
Editor
Language Documentation & Conservation Journal
http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/


Volume 6 of LD&C
Linguistic Data Types and the Interface between Language Documentation
and Description
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

Subcontracting Native Speakers in Linguistic Fieldwork: A Case Study
of the Ashéninka Perené (Arawak) Research Community from the Peruvian
Amazon
Elena I. Mihas

Participatory Methods for Language Documentation and Conservation:
Building Community Awareness and Engagement
Christina Lai Truong and Lilian Garcez

A Linguistic Assessment of the Munji Language in Afghanistan
Daniela Beyer and Simone Beck

Documenting Endangered Languages with Linguist’s Assistant
Stephen Beale

Getting the Story Straight: Language Fieldwork Using a Narrative
Problem-Solving Task
Lila San Roque, Alan Rumsey, Lauren Gawne, Stef Spronck, Darja
Hoenigman, Alice Carroll, Julia Colleen Miller and Nicholas Evans

Review of InqScribe
Murray Garde

Review of WeSay, A Tool for Collaborating on Dictionaries with Non-Linguists
Ross Perlin


From Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG  Mon May 28 07:19:49 2012
From: Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:19:49 +0300
Subject: The world's languages in crisis: A 20-year update
Message-ID: <MON.28.MAY.2012.101949.0300.>

The world's languages in crisis: A 20-year update by Paul Lewis and Gary
Simons

 

"The world's languages in crisis" (Krauss 1992) ... surveyed the global
situation and estimated that only 10% of languages seem safe in the long
term, up to 50% may already be moribund, and the remainder are in danger of
becoming moribund by the end of this century. Twenty years later, better
information is available. In this paper we use information from the latest
edition of the Ethnologue (Lewis 2009), plus information being gathered for
the next edition, to offer an update to the global statistics on language
viability."

 

http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/Wisconsin%20Symposium.pdf

 

 

Dave Pearson

Permanent Representative to UNESCO

SIL International

 

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Office: +254 202 723 793

Skype: dave_pearson_sil

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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  Wed May 30 21:12:38 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:12:38 -0700
Subject: Technology keeps Aboriginal native language alive (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.141238.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Technology keeps Aboriginal native language alive

Education Editor Sheradyn Holderhead
May 27, 2012 11:00PM
AUS

TECHNOLOGY is helping save Aboriginal languages and traditional ceremonies
from dying out.

Inma - traditional ceremonies told through stories and dances - will be
filmed in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands and the Maralinga
Tjarutja Lands to create a DVD that community leaders can pass on to their
youth.

Access full article below:
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/technology-keeps-aboriginal-native-language-alive/story-e6frea83-1226368707503
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:15:23 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:15:23 -0700
Subject: Indigenous schooling's 'bold move' (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.141523.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Indigenous schooling's 'bold move'

BY: NATASHA ROBINSON From: The Australian May 31, 2012 12:00AM
AUS

ABORIGINAL educators have welcomed the NSW government's plan for a radical
overhaul of indigenous education in the state, with highly paid principals
given unprecedented autonomy to spend money and hire staff.

Access full article below:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/indigenous-schoolings-bold-move/story-fn9hm1pm-1226375618832

Article Quote:

"The strategy brands schools as "community hubs", with parents encouraged
to become stakeholders in their children's education amid an emphasis on
celebrating and nurturing indigenous culture, including the teaching of
indigenous languages."
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:17:19 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:17:19 -0700
Subject: Gov signs bills with impact on rural Alaska,
 including 1 establishing Native language council (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.141719.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Gov signs bills with impact on rural Alaska, including 1 establishing
Native language council

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: May 29, 2012 - 3:47 pm
US

JUNEAU, Alaska — Gov. Sean Parnell has signed legislation that will impact
rural Alaska.

He said the state will join with Alaskans to make sure that Native
languages live on.

One of the three bills he signed in Dillingham on Sunday would establish
Alaska Native Language and Advisory Council. The council would be charged
with evaluating the state's indigenous languages and making recommendations
for preservation, restoration and revitalization.

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http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/2b8bcdfa992e4b5988dba5f39b6c6115/AK--Bill-Signings/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:22:06 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:22:06 -0700
Subject: Indigenous Focus: Positive News for Indigenous Languages in Chile
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.142206.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Indigenous Focus: Positive News for Indigenous Languages in Chile

Written by Laura Seelau & Ryan Seelau on May 26, 2012.

In January of this year, we reported on a major study undertaken in Chile
reporting that less than 11 percent of indigenous people in Chile can both
speak and understand their native languages. The study raised some serious
concerns about whether Chile’s indigenous languages are facing extinction
in the near future. In addition, we have written on multiple occasions
about efforts being taken to improve the situation of indigenous languages
within the country, and this week brought some more positive news.

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http://ilovechile.cl/2012/05/26/indigenous-focus-positive-news-indigenous-languages-chile/57320
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:24:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:24:10 -0700
Subject: Kids Can Learn Dakotah With Computer Games (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.142410.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Kids Can Learn Dakotah With Computer Games

By ICTMN Staff May 30, 2012
US

Earlier this year the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA)
announced two milestones, the completion of its Native Language Program
website and the completion of the games for kids and other Dakotah language
learners on that website.

The four language games—or Woskate—feature artwork by Lakota artist Pamela
Obelso, who created more than 1,000 pieces of original art for the AAIA
Native Language Program that can also be seen in more than 120 children’s
books available in the Dakotah and Lakota languages. Dakotah is a dialect
of the Sioux language.

Read more:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/30/kids-can-learn-dakotah-with-computer-games-115672
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:25:58 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:25:58 -0700
Subject: Hannahville to host summer language camp (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.142558.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hannahville to host summer language camp

May 28, 2012
By Jason Raiche - staff writer (jraiche at dailypress.net) , Daily Press
US

HANNAHVILLE - The Hannahville Indian Community's Department of Culture,
Language and History will be hosting its summer language immersion camps
again at the Potawatomi Heritage Center from June to August, according to
organizers.

Potawatomi Language Coordinator Dawn Hill, from the Department of Culture,
Language and History at Hannahville's Potawatomi Heritage Center, said the
summer language immersion program is made possible through a three-year
grant from the Administration for Native Americans.

The Hannahville Indian Community has received funding for its ANA project
"Ewikkendaswat Ekenomagewat" - translated as "They Will Learn to Teach."
The project focuses on providing language instructor skills training during
the school year and summer language immersion camps to increase listening
and speaking fluency of the Potawatomi language.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:41:28 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:41:28 -0700
Subject: App helps Aboriginal youths preserve Tlicho language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.144128.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 May 28, 2012 *
Updated:* May 28, 2012 | 6:50 pm
 CA
 App helps Aboriginal youths preserve Tlicho language
  <http://metronews.ca/author/hophoebe/>By Phoebe
Ho<http://metronews.ca/author/hophoebe/> Metro
Victoria

     <http://metronews.ca/news/victoria/241045/app-helps-aboriginal-youths-preserve-tlicho-language/#>
Metro/Screenshot/Apple.com A screenshot showing the Tlicho language iPhone
app.

Anyone who wants to brush up on their Tlicho language can now carry an
Aboriginal elder with them in their back pocket, thanks to a new smart
phone app.

University of Victoria associate professor of linguistics Leslie Saxon
partnered up with the Tlicho Community Services Agency to launch the free
Yati Dictionary App for the Tlicho language, one of the Dene languages of
the Northwest Territories, just this month.


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http://metronews.ca/news/victoria/241045/app-helps-aboriginal-youths-preserve-tlicho-language/
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From WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA  Tue May  1 15:30:51 2012
From: WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA (William Firth)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 09:30:51 -0600
Subject: The language link between central Siberia, Alaska (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CAOFTfnkpV6S7YBUSfCuFNuQY3BdtU9ZTVZ=Z+H8CqLk8cYUecA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.1.MAY.2012.093051.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi,

I have taken it upon myself to find Mr. Michael Krauss' email address
and it is:

mkrauss at alaska.edu

I hope that is sufficient.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

William Firth

***********************
Mr. William G. Firth
Dinjii Zhuh K'yuu Eenjit Gwichit Nilii,
(Manager of Language Programs)
Gwich?in Social & Cultural Institute
P.O. Box 54,
Fort McPherson, NT   X0E 0J0
Ph:   (867) 952-2377
Fax: (867) 952-2433


From bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM  Tue May  1 18:20:11 2012
From: bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM (BSantaMaria)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:20:11 -0700
Subject: The language link between central Siberia, Alaska (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <fc.003d09dc024a96a03b9aca00ab267899.24a96ae@learnnet.nt.ca>
Message-ID: <TUE.1.MAY.2012.112011.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Mr. Firth:

Ashood ("thank you"),


Bernadette

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:30 AM, William Firth <WGFirth at learnnet.nt.ca>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have taken it upon myself to find Mr. Michael Krauss' email address
> and it is:
>
> mkrauss at alaska.edu
>
> I hope that is sufficient.  Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Firth
>
> ***********************
> Mr. William G. Firth
> Dinjii Zhuh K'yuu Eenjit Gwichit Nilii,
> (Manager of Language Programs)
> Gwich?in Social & Cultural Institute
> P.O. Box 54,
> Fort McPherson, NT   X0E 0J0
> Ph:   (867) 952-2377
> Fax: (867) 952-2433
>
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May  2 17:25:04 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:25:04 -0700
Subject: Another Kind of Extinction (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.2.MAY.2012.102504.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Another Kind of Extinction

By PAUL C. CASTRIGANO
Published: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
US

How many of the world?s languages can you name? No, seriously, try it out.
Take out a piece of paper and just write until your brain cannot produce
another language. My guess is that you have about twenty or thirty
languages, maximum, and most of those came from taking country names and
adding the appropriate suffix. If you named thirty, then congratulations:
That?s a staggering 0.4 percent of the world?s nearly 7,000 languages.

Human communication and language is a wondrous achievement. Unfortunately,
many of these languages are dying out, due mainly to globalization and the
worldwide reduction to fewer and fewer linguae francae. In fact, within a
century, more than half of the world?s 7,000 languages are likely to be
extinct, and once a language is gone, there is no way to bring it back
completely. Language extinction poses a grave cultural threat to our
species, and we should take far stronger stances and measures for ensuring
their preservation.

Access full article below:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/5/2/harvard-languages-dying/
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From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG  Wed May  2 19:59:50 2012
From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:59:50 -0700
Subject: Language Fair
Message-ID: <WED.2.MAY.2012.125950.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>



0:10 / 2:41



K?mateech /Later
Andr? Cramblit, Operations Director
andrekaruk at ncidc.org
Northern California Indian Development Council (NCIDC) (http://www.ncidc.org) 707.445.8451

To subscribe to a blog of interest to Natives send go to: 
http://andrekaruk.posterous.com/




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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu May  3 21:58:28 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:58:28 -0700
Subject: Podcast from the folks at SOAS
Message-ID: <THU.3.MAY.2012.145828.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings,

Say, the folks at SOAS University of London have a podcast worth checking
out.

*Facts for Newbies*
http://soasradio.org/content/facts-newbies-endangered-languages-week-3rd-11th-may

l8ter,
Phil
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Thu May  3 22:26:14 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 15:26:14 -0700
Subject: A Long Fight Begins to Save Philipine Languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <THU.3.MAY.2012.152614.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

A LONG FIGHT BEGINS TO SAVE PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES

AFP
April 30, 2012, 4:13 pm

PORAC, Philippines (AFP) - Arnel Valencia felt humiliated at school when he
was barred from using the language he spoke at home, part of a decades-long
pattern of linguistic destruction across the Philippines.

"'Stop talking like a bird. You should use English or the national
language'," Valencia, now 39 and a village elder, said his first-grade
teacher told him.

Valencia belongs to a small mountain tribe called Ayta Magindi that has for
centuries inhabited the bone-dry, sparsely forested Zambales mountains just
three hours' drive from the nation's megacity capital, Manila.

There are only 3,000 tribe members left living in and around the small
sugar farming town of Porac, guardians to one of the dozens of little-known
languages in the Southeast Asian archipelago that are under dire threat.

Access full article below:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/13559755/a-long-fight-begins-to-save-philippine-languages/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May  4 06:28:48 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:28:48 -0700
Subject: Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities (fwd
 link)
Message-ID: <THU.3.MAY.2012.232848.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Fyi,

The Australian Governement's House of Representatives have held a series of
important inquiries/hearings on language learning in Indigenous communities
throughout Australia.  You can read the transcripts of these hearings at
the following web site.  All very significant.  The most recent and perhaps
last hearing was held on May 2nd.

Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=/atsia/languages/hearings/index.htm

Perhaps our friends Down Under can enlighten us further on the significance
of these hearings.

life and language always,

Phil
ILAT
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May  4 18:43:29 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 11:43:29 -0700
Subject: Geek Speak: Jared Deck,
 Sto:lo Shxweli Halq=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99em=C3=A9yl_?=em Language
 Program (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.4.MAY.2012.114329.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Geek Speak: Jared Deck, Sto:lo Shxweli Halq?em?ylem Language Program

By Stephen Hui, May 4, 2012
CA

Jared Deck is on the front lines of efforts to save endangered First
Nations languages in B.C. Through his work at the Sto:lo Nation, he?s
involved with FirstVoices, a project of the First Peoples? Heritage,
Language and Culture Council that?s using Internet technology to help
preserve and revitalize indigenous languages.

A 34-year-old member of the Tzeachten First Nation who lives in Chilliwack,
Deck has worked at the Sto:lo Shxweli Halq?em?ylem Language Program for
nine years. This past March, the program finished developing nine new
Halq?em?ylem lessons for the FirstVoices Tutor language-lessons application.

Access full article below:
http://www.straight.com/article-677081/vancouver/geek-speak-jared-deck-stolo-shxweli-halqemeylem-language-program
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 21:32:58 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:32:58 -0700
Subject: How to Help an Endangered Language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.143258.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

06 May 2012
US

How to Help an Endangered Language

[media link available]

BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I?m
Barbara Klein.

BOB DOUGHTY: And I?m Bob Doughty. This week on our program, we look at
efforts to protect threatened languages. And, later, we hear some songs
about baseball.

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http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/How-to-Help-an-Endangered-Language-150364655.html
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From WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA  Mon May  7 21:33:04 2012
From: WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA (William Firth)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 15:33:04 -0600
Subject: How to Help an Endangered Language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.153304.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

I will be out of the office until Friday, May 11th, 2012.  If this is
of an important nature, please contact my Supervisor, Sharon Snowshoe
@ (867) 952-2524.  Mahsi' and have yourself a great day!


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 21:35:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:35:10 -0700
Subject: Community revival in Aboriginal languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.143510.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Community revival in Aboriginal languages

Updated 7 May 2012, 9:45 AEST
AUS

In Australia, a community in the far west of New South Wales is hoping to
revitalise the local Aboriginal language with a new course aimed at adults.

Access full article below:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/community-revival-in-aboriginal-languages/938996
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 21:37:18 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:37:18 -0700
Subject: Inuktitut Bible For Inuit Christians In The Arctic To Be
 Available This Spring (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.143718.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Inuktitut Bible For Inuit Christians In The Arctic To Be Available This
Spring

Posted: 05/02/2012 8:32 pm
By Ron Csillag
Religion News Service

TORONTO (RNS) The Bible is by far the most translated book in history.
Portions of the Old and New Testaments have been translated into more than
2,500 languages. According to United Bible Societies, the complete Bible
has been rendered into 469 tongues as of 2010.

Add Inuktitut to that list.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 21:42:05 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:42:05 -0700
Subject: Chukchansi Pledges $1 Million for Language Study & Revitalization
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Chukchansi Pledges $1 Million for Language Study & Revitalization

By KSEE News
May 7, 2012
Updated May 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM PDT
US

(Press Release) The Chukchansi variety of the Yokuts language will be
preserved and revitalized thanks to a $1 million gift from the Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians to Fresno State?s College of Arts and
Humanities for the Department of Linguistics.

The gift will provide funding for programs and research support to
document, preserve and revitalize the Chukchansi language in collaboration
with the Department of Linguistics.

Access full article below:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May  7 23:07:50 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:07:50 -0700
Subject: Search Education
Message-ID: <MON.7.MAY.2012.160750.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Greetings,

Fyi, take a look at the newly created Google's Search Education.  You will
find a plethora of lesson plans and standards.  No word yet if
native/indigenous content can be found here.

Search Education
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html

Phil
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From tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET  Tue May  8 19:13:24 2012
From: tdc.aaia at VERIZON.NET (Tammy DeCoteau)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 14:13:24 -0500
Subject: women as keepers of the language
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From David.Lewis at GRANDRONDE.ORG  Tue May  8 19:14:09 2012
From: David.Lewis at GRANDRONDE.ORG (David Lewis)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 19:14:09 +0000
Subject: women as keepers of the language
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We have a lot about that

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tammy DeCoteau
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:13 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] women as keepers of the language

Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope to quote something.

Tammy DeCoteau
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From msicoli at ALASKA.EDU  Tue May  8 19:24:59 2012
From: msicoli at ALASKA.EDU (Mark Sicoli)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:24:59 -0800
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <33001561.134901.1336504404280.JavaMail.root@vms075.mailsrvcs.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.112459.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi Tammy,

Take a look at Barbra Meek's book *We are our language: An ethnography of
language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community.    *Working
with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect
features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of
female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.

All the best,
Mark

-- 
Dr. Mark Sicoli
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
U.S.A.
Phone:   (907) 474-6884
Fax:       (907) 474-7453

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:

> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
> to quote something.
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program
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From pbkwachka at ALASKA.EDU  Tue May  8 20:08:12 2012
From: pbkwachka at ALASKA.EDU (Patricia Kwachka)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:08:12 -0400
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <CAOpNM4h9SU5Cvw_VVBxsjET6jdZgFx6qsF+ah8VqSkFwmaWsug@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.160812.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Tammy, an interesting fictional take on the role of women and language
invention, maintenance, and transmission is Suzette Hayden Elgin's *Native
Tongue*.
   Also, Koasati, a Muskogean language, is thought to have gender
differences (see Kimball, Haas) with some controversy regarding which is
more conservative/correct/transmissable.  A background assumption is that
women as mothers support the development of both forms.
  Pat Kwachka

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Mark Sicoli <msicoli at alaska.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tammy,
>
> Take a look at Barbra Meek's book *We are our language: An ethnography of
> language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community.    *Working
> with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect
> features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of
> female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.
>
> All the best,
> Mark
>
> --
> Dr. Mark Sicoli
> Assistant Professor
> University of Alaska, Fairbanks
>
> Department of Anthropology
> 310 Eielson Building
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Phone:   (907) 474-6884
> Fax:       (907) 474-7453
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
>> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
>> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
>> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
>> to quote something.
>>
>> Tammy DeCoteau
>> AAIA Native Language Program
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Tue May  8 20:15:28 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:15:28 -0400
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <33001561.134901.1336504404280.JavaMail.root@vms075.mailsrvcs.net>
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That is not so, the family, the community and each other were the users and
learners of the language. It was not a responsibility of anyone:  it just
was. Of course in. this neoculture age of illusion, anyone can start any
'tradition' anyone wants to and make it traditional because you say so. It
doesn't need to have anything to do with or any connection with the people
or the community. Put it in writing in all of the languages and it will have
much more power of enforcement. I guess that's why 'the women' always tell
the men to 'be quiet' or 'shut up'...so they will not pass on any
language...hmmm...maybe you are onto something here...eh.
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
 "You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it" - P.M. Stephen
Harper
 

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Tammy DeCoteau
Sent: May-08-12 3:13 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] women as keepers of the language


Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers of
the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass language
down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for our
program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope to
quote something.

Tammy DeCoteau
AAIA Native Language Program 

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From clairebowern at GMAIL.COM  Tue May  8 20:35:34 2012
From: clairebowern at GMAIL.COM (Claire Bowern)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:35:34 -0400
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <DEE868B08F9F42A58337F5E5FD467480@RolandHP>
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That was a totally gratuitous and unnecessarily sexist comment.
In Australia, I've lost count of the number of stories I've heard about
women who've gone to great lengths to pass on their languages, sometimes at
great risk to their personal safety. Haven't heard too many stories about
the blokes taking the same risks. Some of these stories are documented in
the 1997 "Bringing them Home" report; others in the 2003 FEL proceedings
from the conference held in Broome (both should be easy to find). It's also
fairly well documented in a number of remote Aboriginal communities in
Australia that community language programs are overwhelmingly run by older
women (in part because of demographics, more women live longer, in part
because of other factors).
Claire

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <mikinakn at shaw.ca> wrote:

> **
> That is not so, the family, the community and each other were the users
> and learners of the language. It was not a responsibility of anyone:  it
> just was. Of course in. this neoculture age of illusion, anyone can start
> any 'tradition' anyone wants to and make it traditional because you say so.
> It doesn't need to have anything to do with or any connection with the
> people or the community. Put it in writing in all of the languages and it
> will have much more power of enforcement. I guess that's why 'the women'
> always tell the men to 'be quiet' or 'shut up'...so they will not pass on
> any language...hmmm...maybe you are onto something here...eh.
>
> wahjeh
> rolland nadjiwon
> _____________________________________
>  ?*You won?t recognize Canada* *when I get through with it? *? P.M.
> Stephen Harper
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:
> ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Tammy DeCoteau
> *Sent:* May-08-12 3:13 PM
> *To:* ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> *Subject:* [ILAT] women as keepers of the language
>
> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
> to quote something.
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program
>
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From Dmark916 at AOL.COM  Tue May  8 20:46:07 2012
From: Dmark916 at AOL.COM (Dmark916 at AOL.COM)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:46:07 -0400
Subject: women as keepers of the language
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.164607.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

In Belize and Honduras the Garifuna language (originally Arawakan, but  
with some West African influences) contains words that differ if spoken by  a 
woman or a man. Often these words are entirely distinct, and although 
mutually  intelligible, there are gender distinctions that are pervasive. I don't 
know  about any syntactical differences, but the vocabulary differences make 
this an  extremely interesting language.
 
Dorothy Martinez-K
 
 
In a message dated 5/8/2012 1:36:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
clairebowern at GMAIL.COM writes:

That was  a totally gratuitous and unnecessarily sexist comment.   
In Australia, I've lost count of the number of stories I've heard about  
women who've gone to great lengths to pass on their languages, sometimes at  
great risk to their personal safety. Haven't heard too many stories about the 
 blokes taking the same risks. Some of these stories are documented in the 
1997  "Bringing them Home" report; others in the 2003 FEL proceedings from 
the  conference held in Broome (both should be easy to find). It's also 
fairly well  documented in a number of remote Aboriginal communities in Australia 
that  community language programs are overwhelmingly run by older women (in 
part  because of demographics, more women live longer, in part because of 
other  factors).
Claire

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon <_mikinakn at shaw.ca_ 
(mailto:mikinakn at shaw.ca) > wrote:


That is not so, the family, the community and  each other were the users 
and learners of the language. It was not a  responsibility of anyone:  it just 
was. Of course in. this neoculture  age of illusion, anyone can start any 
'tradition' anyone wants to and make  it traditional because you say so. It 
doesn't need to have anything to do  with or any connection with the people 
or the community. Put it in writing  in all of the languages and it will have 
much more power of enforcement. I  guess that's why 'the women' always tell 
the men to 'be quiet' or 'shut  up'...so they will not pass on any 
language...hmmm...maybe you are onto  something here...eh.
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
 ?You won?t recognize Canada when I  get through with it? ? P.M. Stephen 
Harper
 

 
____________________________________
 From: Indigenous Languages and Technology  
[mailto:_ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU_ (mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU) ] On Behalf Of Tammy  DeCoteau
Sent: May-08-12 3:13 PM
To: _ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU_ (mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU) 
Subject: [ILAT] women  as keepers of the language




Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the  keepers 
of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass  language 
down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking  for our 
program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and  hope to quote 
something.

Tammy DeCoteau
AAIA Native Language  Program 

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From msicoli at ALASKA.EDU  Tue May  8 20:51:12 2012
From: msicoli at ALASKA.EDU (Mark Sicoli)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:51:12 -0800
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <CAOpNM4h9SU5Cvw_VVBxsjET6jdZgFx6qsF+ah8VqSkFwmaWsug@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.125112.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Tammy,  It's actually this article by Barbra Meek that I was thinking of:

Barbra Meek "Respecting the language of elders: Ideological Shift and
Linguistic Discontinuity in a Northern Athapascan Community" Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology 2007, 17(1) 23-43


 "According to the Kaska Tribal Council (1997), there are approximately
nine dialects. Defining a family?s dialect is complicated. In most cases,
the family dialect is the one spoken by the mother, following a matrilineal
pattern. A woman?s husband often speaks his wife?s own dialect along with
his own mother?s family dialect (or language), and the children are exposed
to both parents? linguistic varieties." p26


 She wasn't making the point that men don't speak correctly but was rather
reporting on criticisms community members were making on the speech
features students were learning in the school. For example, a student
learns to speak like a teacher who has different dialect features than
his/her own mother/grandmother:

"There were instances of correction as well, mostly directed at a person?s
word choice or pronunciation. Given that word choice and pronunciation were
the most salient indices of family dialects, an act of correction signaled
that a person hadn?t spoken in an appropriate ancestral variety. This
sociolinguistic correspondence also emerged in discussions about the public
schools? Kaska language curriculum, where children were not always being
taught their own family?s dialect. Unsurprisingly, students were taught the
dialect of their teacher, and this caused some parents to complain to the
administration. Correction also appeared when a person spoke a non-familial
variety." p27

I think this is interestingly relevant to your original question, though
the thread has turned in other directions that I think are less
productive.  Surely it varies from community to community and situation to
situation who is involved with/motivated to work for language maintenance
and revitalization.

Best wishes,
Mark

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Mark Sicoli <msicoli at alaska.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tammy,
>
> Take a look at Barbra Meek's book *We are our language: An ethnography of
> language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community.    *Working
> with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect
> features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of
> female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.
>
> All the best,
> Mark
>
> --
> Dr. Mark Sicoli
> Assistant Professor
> University of Alaska, Fairbanks
>
> Department of Anthropology
> 310 Eielson Building
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Phone:   (907) 474-6884
> Fax:       (907) 474-7453
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
>> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
>> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
>> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
>> to quote something.
>>
>> Tammy DeCoteau
>> AAIA Native Language Program
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Dr. Mark Sicoli
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
U.S.A.
Phone:   (907) 474-6884
Fax:       (907) 474-7453
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May  8 22:33:06 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:33:06 -0700
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98Hot_spot=E2=80=99_?=languages are in danger,
 too (fwd lin k)
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.153306.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

?Hot spot? languages are in danger, too

PENN STATE (US) ? Biodiversity hot spots are some of the most
linguistically diverse regions on the planet, accounting for 70 percent of
all languages on Earth.

Hot spots are considered the most rich biologically and the most threatened
locations. High biodiversity wilderness areas are those that are
biologically rich but less threatened.

In a new study published in the early online edition of Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, conservationists write that, like a region?s
species, the ?languages involved frequently are unique to particular
regions, with many facing extinction.?

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May  8 22:43:23 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:43:23 -0700
Subject: Do you speak Texan? (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.8.MAY.2012.154323.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Do you speak Texan?

By Jessica Sinn, College of Liberal Arts
Published: May 7

With its sprawling pastures, gleaming skylines and rugged hills, the Lone
Star State looms large in American culture. Just the word Texas evokes
images of rootin? tootin? cowboys in 10-gallon hats shouting ?howdy y?all!?

Venture into a honky tonk or a rural Texas town, and you?re likely to find
more slow-talking cowpokes than you can shake a stick at. Yet researchers
at The University of Texas at Austin have found Texanisms like ?might
could? and ?down yonder? are dissipating, especially among young city
slickers.

Access full article below:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May  8 22:47:51 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:47:51 -0700
Subject: Indigenous languages disappearing as lobbying starts for
 bilingual programmes (fwd link)
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8 May, 2012 4:15PM AEST

Indigenous languages disappearing as lobbying starts for bilingual
programmes

By Sam Davis
AUS

The Chair of an Aboriginal language group in north Queensland says urgent
funding is needed before 80 per cent of indigenous languages spoken in the
region are lost.

The North Queensland Regional Aboriginal Language Corporation [NQRALC]
Chair, Troy Wyles-Whelan addressed the standing committee for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Affairs [ATSIA] on language via uplink from
Cairns last Thursday.

Mr Wyles-Whelan said the organisation struggled to reach out to remote
communities because of budget limitations.

"We're the peak body within the region and we're the largest language body
within Australia. Most of the other areas only have one or two [languages]
or maybe three at the most," he said. "My issue is about the funding of
these programmes."

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From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:51:05 -0700
Subject: Chukchansi language to be preserved with grant (fwd link)
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Chukchansi language to be preserved with grant

Monday, May 07, 2012
US

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Every language contains a world of unique
information. In most Native American communities, language is an oral
tradition and many times it dies when the tribe's elders die.

One Central California tribe is trying to change that.

It's said that language is a window to one's culture, family and religion.

On Monday the native tongue of one of the valley's most treasured tribes
will be forever preserved thanks to a $1 million donation from the Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians to Fresno State's Department of
Linguistics.

Access full article below:
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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Wed May  9 02:22:48 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 21:22:48 -0500
Subject: Do you speak Texan? (fwd link)
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 hmmm...how does a texan say   *"the flattened monophthong"*
(sounds like a roadkill rattlesnake to me)

If you *know* you have an accent...does it even qualify as an accent?

Doesn't an accent only exist when its compared to someone else's accent?

Is it even possible for Texans who speak with accents to study Texan
accents?

and where did the word "food" (as in : fude ) come from anyway?

Richard
Wyandotte Oklahoma




On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Do you speak Texan?
>
> By Jessica Sinn, College of Liberal Arts
> Published: May 7
>
> With its sprawling pastures, gleaming skylines and rugged hills, the Lone
> Star State looms large in American culture. Just the word Texas evokes
> images of rootin? tootin? cowboys in 10-gallon hats shouting ?howdy y?all!?
>
> Venture into a honky tonk or a rural Texas town, and you?re likely to find
> more slow-talking cowpokes than you can shake a stick at. Yet researchers
> at The University of Texas at Austin have found Texanisms like ?might
> could? and ?down yonder? are dissipating, especially among young city
> slickers.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.utexas.edu/know/2012/05/07/texas_twang/
>



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Think of continuing generations of our families,

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May  9 04:28:26 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 21:28:26 -0700
Subject: Do you speak Texan? (fwd link)
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I thought the news article was interesting for a number of reasons.
Probably the most obvious one is how a speech pattern/dialect achieves a
kind of symbolic status when it is associated with things like "identity"
and "belonging."  Similar experiences can be found in endangered language
communities.

Too, I have always been curious if heritage language speakers in Oklahoma
and surrounding southern areas maintain a natural distinction between
speaking a southern American English dialect/accent and their own native
language or if they are somehow mixed with a "twang" (whatever that might
be).  The same interesting questions Richard poses apply here as well.

I know for many indigenous communities, it is quite easy to hear when a
native language speaker speaks with an English accent.  Some older
teachers/elders tend to mercilessly correct their student learners on
this.  But then, is it really an accent in this case or is it just simply
the consequences of acquiring a second language?

Just a few thoughts to add on here.
Phil
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From osamadre at HOTMAIL.COM  Wed May  9 13:22:45 2012
From: osamadre at HOTMAIL.COM (Leigh Thelmadatter)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 06:22:45 -0700
Subject: Wikimedia project with the Batak script and the Tropenmuseum
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Im forwarding this along because it looks like an interesting project. The Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia) has been very active in the transcription and encoding for digital purposes various scripts, but this is the first project I have seen in cooperation with a museum. The Tropenmuseum is a Dutch museum dedicated to cultures found in tropical areas of the world. 

I have promoted working with Wikimedia before for linguists and I still think it is a great opportunity for linguists, especially those interested in the preservation/promotion of endangered languages, open culture and how technology is changing culture, including academia. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, just entered into an agreement with the British government to develop ways to make publicly funded research easily available to the public under free licenses.

Leigh

From: gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:47:21 +0200
To: cultural-partners at wikimedia.ch
CC: alolita.sharma at gmail.com; F.Meijer at kit.nl
Subject: [cultural-partners] Text in the Batak script

Hoi,Many collections have material that is in other languages than the language of the land and often not even in the script that people are familiar with. For some languages there are departments in universities to keep the knowledge of a language alive. This is very much to ensure that we keep an understanding of the development of our culture.


For some languages there is no attention. For some languages there is not even a way to enter texts as text in the original script on modern computers. Yet these materials can be found in archives and museums. Some of the texts shed a light on how history developed and shows how much history is written by the victor. For us Wikimedians, access to materials like these and being able to give them their place is important. Without it we cannot achieve sharing in the sum of all knowledge.. even in English.


For the Batak scripts, there are several Batak languages, we are starting a GLAM project that has two objectives:making texts in Batak currently in archives and museums available for transcription

creating a Unicode font and an input method that allows for the writing of the Batak languagesWe made a choice for the Batak script and languages because it did not have a Unicode font yet and because the Tropenmuseum has some really relevant objects. Obviously there are other languages and scripts equally deserving. What it takes is a font and a scan or photo of the objects.


The project will be in cooperation with the Tropenmuseum. The font and input method will become available in all the Wikis that have support for the MediaWiki extensions Narayam and WebFonts. Wikisource is one of them. When your project has a need for this and reached a consensus about this, you can request these extensions to be enabled in Bugzilla.

Thanks,     Gerard
PS I will be blogging about this project as things develop

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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Wed May  9 16:20:14 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 11:20:14 -0500
Subject: Do you speak Texan? (fwd link)
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interesting Phil, especially about the identity and place connection.

I'll say that there is a noticeable twang in some Okies learning their
indigenous languages.
Some can't get beyond it no matter how hard they try.

We had a visiting a Quebec Wendat woman who's involved in wendat language
revitalization.
when she heard the kids (here in NE Okl.) singing in Wyandot she said "they
sound like Americans!"
I said, "thats funny,  when i hear you speaking Wendat ,it sounds like
French!" (we both laughed)

I'm guessing second languages will always be influenced by the speakers
first language.
its why its so important to bring kids up with more than one language EARLY.

its also much harder to reach consensus for those of us rousing dormant
languages.
when there ARE NO ELDERS to pester us by demanding we "say it right"

Richard



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> I thought the news article was interesting for a number of reasons.
> Probably the most obvious one is how a speech pattern/dialect achieves a
> kind of symbolic status when it is associated with things like "identity"
> and "belonging."  Similar experiences can be found in endangered language
> communities.
>
> Too, I have always been curious if heritage language speakers in Oklahoma
> and surrounding southern areas maintain a natural distinction between
> speaking a southern American English dialect/accent and their own native
> language or if they are somehow mixed with a "twang" (whatever that might
> be).  The same interesting questions Richard poses apply here as well.
>
> I know for many indigenous communities, it is quite easy to hear when a
> native language speaker speaks with an English accent.  Some older
> teachers/elders tend to mercilessly correct their student learners on
> this.  But then, is it really an accent in this case or is it just simply
> the consequences of acquiring a second language?
>
> Just a few thoughts to add on here.
> Phil
>



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From msicoli at ALASKA.EDU  Wed May  9 18:57:12 2012
From: msicoli at ALASKA.EDU (Mark Sicoli)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:57:12 -0800
Subject: Job Posting: Visiting Asst Prof Linguistic Anthropology
Message-ID: <WED.9.MAY.2012.105712.0800.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistic Anthropology

University of Alaska Fairbanks



The department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks seeks
to fill a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Linguistic Anthropology
for the academic year 2012-2013.  We seek applicants who have a strong
background in and knowledge of the study of language, culture and social
life, and a record of teaching excellence.  Course responsibilities would
include a graduate core class surveying original works in the history of
linguistics and linguistic anthropology, undergraduate classes in
?Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology,? ?Language and Culture? or
?Ethnopoetics? and two other courses developed in consultation with
faculty.  The Department of Anthropology of the University of Alaska
Fairbanks is a four-field department with faculty conducting research in
many regions of the world and with a particularly strong focus on the
Circumpolar North and the study of Alaska Native Languages.  The regional
specialization for this position is open, though the successful applicant
would be able to help advise students with varied regional interests.  This
is a 9-month appointment.



The position will remain open until filled though review of applications
will begin immediately.  Applicants should apply through
www.uakjobs.com(Job Posting 0064029) submitting a one-page letter of
application, CV, a
one-page teaching statement, one sample of written work, and the names and
contact information of three references.  For questions contact Dr. Mark
Sicoli msicoli at alaska.edu


-- 
Dr. Mark Sicoli
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Department of Anthropology
310 Eielson Building
P.O. Box 757720
Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
U.S.A.
Phone:   (907) 474-6884
Fax:       (907) 474-7453
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May  9 20:32:27 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 13:32:27 -0700
Subject: War of words over tribal tongue (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.9.MAY.2012.133227.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

War of words over tribal tongue
Debate highlights pitfalls in studying minority languages.

Eugenie Samuel Reich
09 May 2012
US

It wasn?t long after his translation of the Gospel of St Mark failed to
interest the Pirah? tribe members he was trying to convert to Christianity
that Daniel Everett, then a missionary and linguistic anthropologist, began
to doubt what he had learned about the foundations of human language.

Thirty years on, Everett, now at Bentley University in Waltham,
Massachusetts, has long since left missionary work, but his study of the
Pirah? tongue has increasingly cast him in the role of heretic in a battle
over the influence of culture in shaping the structure of a language. The
debate has resurfaced with the publication in March of his book Language:
The Cultural Tool and a related television documentary scheduled to be
broadcast this week in the United States. But as Everett?s controversial
views gain attention, other scholars are beginning to question his
interpretations.

Access full article below:
http://www.nature.com/news/war-of-words-over-tribal-tongue-1.10595
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From rzs at WILDBLUE.NET  Thu May 10 14:45:18 2012
From: rzs at WILDBLUE.NET (Richard Zane Smith)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:45:18 -0500
Subject: women as keepers of the language
In-Reply-To: <CAOpNM4jc+6Yd3gLB8gaGFU9ZBH7A+ESFi9YvKhNgycEqEb84iw@mail.gmail.com>
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I imagine wherever patriarchalism has been forceful and domineering,
we have a raw-nervy sensitivity to gender issues that won't be felt within
a culture
that has not had the gender dominance problems "western culture" has had.
It might even be that some understandings of "fairness" are going to vary
from culture to culture.
Some might be content where we would be uncomfortable...or even outraged.

its always enlightening to discover cultures that have much less gender
inequalities.
1000 year sustainable cultures really need a lot more serious
investigation!!

-Richard



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Mark Sicoli <msicoli at alaska.edu> wrote:

> Tammy,  It's actually this article by Barbra Meek that I was thinking of:
>
> Barbra Meek "Respecting the language of elders: Ideological Shift and
> Linguistic Discontinuity in a Northern Athapascan Community" Journal of
> Linguistic Anthropology 2007, 17(1) 23-43
>
>
>  "According to the Kaska Tribal Council (1997), there are approximately
> nine dialects. Defining a family?s dialect is complicated. In most cases,
> the family dialect is the one spoken by the mother, following a matrilineal
> pattern. A woman?s husband often speaks his wife?s own dialect along with
> his own mother?s family dialect (or language), and the children are exposed
> to both parents? linguistic varieties." p26
>
>
>  She wasn't making the point that men don't speak correctly but was rather
> reporting on criticisms community members were making on the speech
> features students were learning in the school. For example, a student
> learns to speak like a teacher who has different dialect features than
> his/her own mother/grandmother:
>
> "There were instances of correction as well, mostly directed at a person?s
> word choice or pronunciation. Given that word choice and pronunciation were
> the most salient indices of family dialects, an act of correction signaled
> that a person hadn?t spoken in an appropriate ancestral variety. This
> sociolinguistic correspondence also emerged in discussions about the public
> schools? Kaska language curriculum, where children were not always being
> taught their own family?s dialect. Unsurprisingly, students were taught the
> dialect of their teacher, and this caused some parents to complain to the
> administration. Correction also appeared when a person spoke a non-familial
> variety." p27
>
> I think this is interestingly relevant to your original question, though
> the thread has turned in other directions that I think are less
> productive.  Surely it varies from community to community and situation to
> situation who is involved with/motivated to work for language maintenance
> and revitalization.
>
> Best wishes,
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Mark Sicoli <msicoli at alaska.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tammy,
>>
>> Take a look at Barbra Meek's book *We are our language: An ethnography
>> of language revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan community.    *Working
>> with Kaska Athabaskans in the Yukon, she describes (in part) dialect
>> features that are matrilineal with "correct" speech for one (male of
>> female) being their mother's and grandmother's way of speaking.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Mark
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Mark Sicoli
>> Assistant Professor
>> University of Alaska, Fairbanks
>>
>> Department of Anthropology
>> 310 Eielson Building
>> P.O. Box 757720
>> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
>> U.S.A.
>> Phone:   (907) 474-6884
>> Fax:       (907) 474-7453
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know of any writing that talks about women being the keepers
>>> of the language and it being the mothers and grandmothers that pass
>>> language down?  There is a mother's day event at which they are asking for
>>> our program to have a booth and I would like to create a handout and hope
>>> to quote something.
>>>
>>> Tammy DeCoteau
>>> AAIA Native Language Program
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Mark Sicoli
> Assistant Professor
> University of Alaska, Fairbanks
>
> Department of Anthropology
> 310 Eielson Building
> P.O. Box 757720
> Fairbanks, AK  99775-7720
> U.S.A.
> Phone:   (907) 474-6884
> Fax:       (907) 474-7453
>
>


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"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,


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From andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG  Fri May 11 18:23:23 2012
From: andrekaruk at NCIDC.ORG (Andre Cramblit)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 11:23:23 -0700
Subject: CHICKASAW.TV (Language)
Message-ID: <FRI.11.MAY.2012.112323.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Innovative Chickasaw language website including streaming videos

http://www.chickasaw.tv/#/language


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May 11 19:07:57 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:07:57 -0700
Subject: Honoring our elders, establishing our traditions (fwd link)
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Honoring our elders, establishing our traditions

Posted: May 10, 2012 - 12:01am
By XH'UNEI -- LANCE TWITCHELL
FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE
US

Last week I was blessed with the opportunity to watch the Children?s
Celebration take place in Centennial Hall. I sat next to my clan grandson
Kingheest?, and near many of my favorite people in the world who are
working tirelessly to revitalize our Tlingit language. There were many
times when I looked up at the stage to see a young boy or girl speaking
Tlingit, singing in Tlingit, and I watched through unabashed tears of joy.
And in many of those moments, those around me were doing the same. We would
laugh loudly because something wonderful was happening. This is what we
have been fighting for, and now we are beginning to realize the
possibilities.

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From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May 11 20:45:17 2012
From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Rudolph C Troike/LingFacultyRetired/UA)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:45:17 -0700
Subject: Language Revitalization in 21st C. symposium 31 May-1 June
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(I'm not sure how well this will forward -- there is an inline flier. Rudy)

Language Revitalization in the 21st Century symposium 31 May-1 June

We are pleased to announce an upcoming symposium in New York City
31 May - 1 June 2012

Language Revitalization in the 21st Century: Going Global, Staying Local
Due to limited space please pre-register online at
http://language2012.eventbrite.com/
For more information visit
http://opencuny.org/languagerevitalizationinthe21stcentury/ or stay informed by
liking our facebook page:
www.facebook.com/cunyaut2012<http://www.facebook.com/cunyaut2012>

[cid:4694B65A-9EC1-4078-BDD8-D710EE9C01E2]

Also join us for ELA's upcoming event

Mexican Indigenous Languages in New York
Discover Mexico's national treasure trove of indigenous languages here in New
York! Descubre el tesoro nacional de M?xico, sus lenguas ind?genas aqu? en
Nueva York.

El Museo del Barrio
Sunday, June 10, 2012
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
El Teatro
Admission: Free

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders and the Endangered Language
Alliance (ELA) join forces to present this special program at El Museo
featuring short videos in various Mexican languages, cultural performances, and
a panel discussion on the role of these languages in New York. Come celebrate
our indigenous communities in this urban landscape, and learn more about the
linguistic diversity that lies therein.

Mano a Mano: Cultura Mexicana Sin Fronteras y Endangered Language Alliance (ELA)
unen fuerzas para presentar este programa especial en El Museo con v?deos cortos
en diversas lenguas mexicanas, presentaciones culturales, y una charla acad?mica
sobre el papel de estas lenguas en Nueva York. Celebra a nuestras comunidades
ind?genas en este panorama urbano, y aprende m?s acerca de la diversidad
ling??stica New Yorkina.

NOTE: Speaking portions of this program are presented in English.

For details, visit:
http://www.elmuseo.org/en/event/mexican-indigenous-languages-new-york

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May 14 05:58:46 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 22:58:46 -0700
Subject: Crowd gathers for Alaska Native languages workshop (fwd link)
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Crowd gathers for Alaska Native languages workshop

10:48 PM, May. 7, 2012
By Rachel D'Oro

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (WTW) ? Two decades ago, Hishinlai' Kathy Sikorski could
not speak her ancestral language, Gwich'in Athabascan. Now she teaches it
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

"When I was hired as a UAF language instructor in 2002, I was scared, very
scared because I had no idea how to teach a language," Sikorski told a
crowd gathered in Anchorage on Monday to talk about efforts to revitalize
Alaska Native languages.

Sikorski, who began learning Gwich'in 17 years ago, developed her teaching
skills by learning even more about the learning process, eventually
creating her own lesson plans and making her own materials "from scratch,"
she said, reading from a prepared statement.

"Language learners need support, emotional or otherwise, from fluid
speakers, politicians, educational settings, et cetera," she said.

Access full article below:
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May 14 06:01:57 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:01:57 -0700
Subject: The last word: Kusunda language set to die out because only one
 speaker is left (fwd link)
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14 May 2012 00:01
UK
*
The last word: Kusunda language set to die out because only one speaker is
left*

Only about 100 Kusunda tribespeople remain, but Gyani Maiya Sen is the only
one who can speak the language

AN entire language is set to die out because only one person remains alive
who speaks it.

Tribeswoman Gyani Maiya Sen, 75, is fluent in Kusunda ? a language from
western Nepal of unknown origins and mysterious sentence structures which
has baffled linguists for years.

Only about 100 Kusunda tribespeople remain, but Ms Sen is the only one who
can speak the language. It has made her the main focus for campaigners who
are eager to preserve the ?important? tongue.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May 14 06:22:01 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:22:01 -0700
Subject: Conference at TRU focuses on saving indigenous languages (fwd
 link)
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Conference at TRU focuses on saving indigenous languages

MAY 11, 2012
BY MICHELE YOUNG
DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORTER
CA

Of all the aboriginal languages and dialects spoken in Canada, only Cree is
probably safe from fading into the past.

The rest require conscious efforts to be passed down from generation to
generation.

And that?s what a conference gathering at Thompson Rivers University May 17
to 19 is all about, said organizer Jack Miller, who is also an assistant
professor in the university?s school of education.

This is the 19th year for the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages conference
and the third time it?s been held in Canada.

?Stabilizing is a nice word for revitalizing or to keep the language
alive,? Miller said Friday.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Mon May 14 06:31:55 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:31:55 -0700
Subject: Bangladesh tribals fear linguistic 'genocide' (fwd link)
Message-ID: <SUN.13.MAY.2012.233155.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Bangladesh tribals fear linguistic 'genocide'

SUNDAY, 13 MAY 2012 13:29

DALOIPARA: Bangladesh can justly claim to be a nation born of language, but
its status as a cradle of linguistic diversity is under threat from
nationalist pride and economic growth.

Of the more than 30 recognised languages spoken in Bangladesh, experts say
20 are now on the verge of extinction.

Many like the Laleng language spoken by the 2,000-strong Patra tribe in the
country's far northeast are inherently vulnerable, having no script and
relying instead on a rich but fragile oral tradition of folk songs and
story telling.

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From annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG  Mon May 14 15:27:04 2012
From: annaluisa at LIVINGTONGUES.ORG (Anna Luisa Daigneault)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 11:27:04 -0400
Subject: CHICKASAW.TV (Language)
In-Reply-To: <0B367D21-EC3C-499D-B54D-ADFBD8086258@ncidc.org>
Message-ID: <MON.14.MAY.2012.112704.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

This is amazing! thanks for sending the link! A great inspiration.
~Anna

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Andre Cramblit <andrekaruk at ncidc.org>wrote:

> Innovative Chickasaw language website including streaming videos
>
> http://www.chickasaw.tv/#/language
>



-- 
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
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From donaghy at HAWAII.EDU  Tue May 15 06:38:17 2012
From: donaghy at HAWAII.EDU (Keola Donaghy)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:38:17 -1000
Subject: Bank of Hawaii ATMs Will Offer
 =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98=C5=8Clelo_Haw_ai=E2=80=98i?=
Message-ID: <MON.14.MAY.2012.203817.1000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

http://mauinow.com/2012/05/14/bank-of-hawaii-installing-hawaiian-language-on-atms/

?Aloha mai.? That?s the message that will greet Bank of Hawaii ATM users when the bank rolls out its Hawaiian language capability later this year.

The Bank of Hawaii in cooperation with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Hawaii Tourism Authority is giving customers the capability to make transactions in the Hawaiian language. More than 400 ATMs are expected to be ready by sometime this summer.

?This is important to help perpetuate the Hawaiian language and our host culture. We?re proud to be the first financial institution to offer Hawaiian language capability on its ATM network,? said Peter Ho, chairman and chief executive officer of the Bank of Hawaii, in a written statement.

?OHA congratulates the Bank of Hawaii?s leadership for being the first to include Hawaiian language as an ATM option. It?s a milestone event that recognizes the Hawaiian language as a relevant form of mainstream communication,? said Peter Apo, a trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

?When we incorporate the Hawaiian language in our day-to-day activities, it will become a living language in our home, Hawai?i,? said Hawai?i Tourism Authority President and CEO Mike McCartney.

The Hawaiian language option for the ATMs will include words such as ?ahu k?ko?o,? or ?checking account? and ?m?kini huki k?l?? or ?automated teller machine (ATM).?

Like any other language, Hawaiian evolves to include new and modern words. However, a number of the words that will be used in the ATM option are taken from 19th century banking advertisements found in Hawaiian language newspapers. During the 1800s Hawaiian language was used in the banking business as well as other aspects of life in that era.


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

"T?r gan teanga, t?r 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  Tue May 15 19:26:54 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:26:54 -0700
Subject: More Indigenous language and culture needed on Canada's airwaves
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <TUE.15.MAY.2012.122654.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

More Indigenous language and culture needed on Canada's airwaves

BY JOANNE PENHALE | MAY 14, 2012
CA

Vancouver Co-op Radio is a hotbed for First Nations cultural programming
and a tool for Indigenous language revitalization. Long-time programmer
Gunargie O'Sullivan wants the trend to spread to radio stations across
country -- by law. And she says the Canadian government has an obligation
to make that happen.

"If Canada wants to reconcile with First Nations people in regards to the
residential school area, it should be law to include First Nations programs
from whichever territory radio stations are broadcasting in," O'Sullivan
says.

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http://rabble.ca/news/2012/05/canada-needs-more-indigenous-culture-radio
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 16 20:03:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:03:10 -0700
Subject: Breaking the Language Barrier (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2012.130310.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

fyi...

Langscape, Volume II, Issue
10<http://www.terralingua.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=Lang_II_10.pdf>
2012-05
Breaking the Language Barrier: a Biocultural Approach to Documenting Oral
Literature.
http://www.terralingua.org/blog/2012/05/15/lang_ii_1/
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 16 20:18:32 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:18:32 -0700
Subject: Call for more money for Indigenous languages (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2012.131832.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Call for more money for Indigenous languages

Margaret Paul
Updated May 16, 2012 10:22:23
AUS

The New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) is
urging the federal government to set up a trust fund to protect indigenous
languages.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 16 20:19:46 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:19:46 -0700
Subject: Indigenous language circle in Broken Hill (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.16.MAY.2012.131946.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Indigenous language circle in Broken Hill

Margaret Paul
Updated May 16, 2012 09:29:48
AUS

Language experts have met for a two-day conference in Broken Hill to
promote teaching Aboriginal languages.

The Paakantyi Language Sharing Circle involves teachers and elders from
across the far west, as well as Mildura.

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From mikinakn at SHAW.CA  Thu May 17 05:00:37 2012
From: mikinakn at SHAW.CA (Rolland Nadjiwon)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 01:00:37 -0400
Subject: Breaking the Language Barrier (fwd link)
In-Reply-To: <CACL86RyYx92VE_v7-d0xxChDz-C=oNVnYBUj_DFgFR=zi35i6g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.17.MAY.2012.010037.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Thanks Phil...great site, Terralingua. Supposedly, Plato said or suggested
in 'The Phaedrus' that  writing is the death of language. I really wasn't
there to hear him so I definitely stand to be corrected....
 
wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
_____________________________________
 If you believe in psycho-kinesis, please raise my hand....

  _____  

From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Phillip E Cash Cash
Sent: May-16-12 4:03 PM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Breaking the Language Barrier (fwd link)


fyi...

Langscape, Volume II, Issue 10
<http://www.terralingua.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php
?id=Lang_II_10.pdf> 
2012-05
Breaking the Language Barrier: a Biocultural Approach to Documenting Oral
Literature. 
http://www.terralingua.org/blog/2012/05/15/lang_ii_1/


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May 18 23:33:19 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:33:19 -0700
Subject: 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks Them)
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.18.MAY.2012.163319.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks Them)

by Kyle Ellison (RSS feed) on May 18th 2012 at 11:00AM

As anyone who follows my articles here on Gadling knows by now, I don't
travel to relax poolside at a resort or sip a fancy drink with coconut oil.
I travel because this world is a fascinating place.

While everyone has their own travel philosophy and reasons for wanting to
get away, I know that for many travelers, one of the greatest joys of
travel is experiencing other cultures and peeking into corners of the
world, which are far removed from our own. This could range from immersing
yourself in a culture with a different religion, cuisine, or something as
simple as driving on the other side of the road.

More often than not, however, one of the largest indicators that we "aren't
in Kansas anymore" is traveling to a place with a language that is
different from our own. With linguists estimating there are over 7,000
languages spread across the globe, there is little to no chance of any
traveler ever having the opportunity to properly experience them all.
Furthermore, as Gadling blogger Kraig Becker points out, there are still
uncontacted tribes in parts of the Amazon where we don't even know what
language they speak yet.

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http://www.gadling.com/2012/05/18/8-languages-youve-never-heard-of-and-who-actually-speaks-them/
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From WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA  Fri May 18 23:33:22 2012
From: WGFirth at LEARNNET.NT.CA (William Firth)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:33:22 -0600
Subject: 8 Languages You've Never Heard Of (And Who Actually Speaks
 Them) (fwd
Message-ID: <FRI.18.MAY.2012.173322.0600.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

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!


From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Fri May 18 23:35:16 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:35:16 -0700
Subject: Play honors =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98Mvskoke_Way=E2=80=99_?=(fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.18.MAY.2012.163516.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

May 17, 2012

Play honors ?Mvskoke Way?

By Chesley Oxendine
Phoenix Correspondent
US

Bacone College hosts a live celebration of language culture Saturday night,
courtesy of Thunder Road Theater.

The Tulsa-based troupe holds its collaborative production ?The Mvskoke Way?
at 7:30 p.m. at Bacone?s Palmer Center. Tickets are $5 at the door.

?The Mvskoke Way? features ?collectively created humorous skits, Native
storytelling and audience participation,? says Thunder Road co-founder Jana
Butler-Rhoads.

One skit revolves around a grandfather teaching his city-born grandson how
to fish, while the other concerns a mother educating her daughter on
gardening. Both pieces are performed using a combination of Creek and
English languages.

Creek storytellers also take the stage to spin bilingual tales, as well as
a language game the actors will play with the audience.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat May 19 00:12:16 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:12:16 -0700
Subject: Okinawans push to preserve unique language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <FRI.18.MAY.2012.171216.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

40 YEARS AFTER REVERSION

Okinawans push to preserve unique language

By AYAKO MIE
Staff writer
JAPAN

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. ? Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis.

Part of it is his looks. He's Japanese, born to a white American father and
an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take more
after his dad. But it's when he speaks that people are really taken aback.

Fija is often asked why he speaks in Okinawa "hogen" (dialect), from people
who assume he is a foreigner.

More disconcerting is that he is asked this by fellow Okinawans, who should
recognize what he is saying. Most recently, this occurred when he was asked
about the Okinawan language during the taping of a Naha TV program.

"I don't speak a dialect (of Japanese)," Fija protested when an
Okinawa-born comedian questioned him about the way he speaks. "I speak
Uchinaguchi, which is an independent language."

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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
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From bischoff.st at GMAIL.COM  Sun May 20 01:13:50 2012
From: bischoff.st at GMAIL.COM (s.t. bischoff)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 21:13:50 -0400
Subject: Okinawans push to preserve unique language
Message-ID: <SAT.19.MAY.2012.211350.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hello all,

An interesting article in the Japan Times today about Uchiniaguchi....

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
Okinawans push to preserve unique language
By *AYAKO MIE<http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/JTsearch5.cgi?term1=AYAKO%20MIE>
*
Staff writer
*Last in a series*

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. ? Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis.

Part of it is his looks. He's Japanese, born to a white American father and
an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take more
after his dad. But it's when he speaks that people are really taken aback.

Fija is often asked why he speaks in Okinawa "hogen" (dialect), from people
who assume he is a foreigner.

More disconcerting is that he is asked this by fellow Okinawans, who should
recognize what he is saying. Most recently, this occurred when he was asked
about the Okinawan language during the taping of a Naha TV program.

"I don't speak a dialect (of Japanese)," Fija protested when an
Okinawa-born comedian questioned him about the way he speaks. "I speak
Uchinaguchi, which is an independent language."

Fija actually teaches Uchinaguchi, the local language spoken on the
southern half of the main island of Okinawa.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
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From hsouter at GMAIL.COM  Sun May 20 01:55:47 2012
From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 20:55:47 -0500
Subject: Okinawans push to preserve unique language
In-Reply-To: <CABBCDhqRw8D7TyMNxJf-KbOnYVR98FyFU=chXA2t_s9Dy=yr-Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.19.MAY.2012.205547.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Taanshi, hello, all,

For a more in depth interview/article with/on Fija Byron (Yes, this is the
correct spelling.), please see:

http://japanfocus.org/-Fija-Bairon/2586

 *?Wanne Uchinanchu ? I am Okinawan.? Japan, the US and Okinawa?s
Endangered Languages*

*Fija Bairon and Patrick Heinrich *

*
*

*Patrick Heinrich interviews Fija Bairon on Okinawa?s endangered languages
and culture, and efforts to restore them.*


The proportion of languages and of nation states stands roughly at a
relation of 1 to 30. Hence, the predominant number of nation states is
multilingual. Japan, notwithstanding its modern monolingual
self-perception, is no exception. As with many other nation states,
Japanhas merely been invented as an ?imagined community? of
monolingual and
monocultural members. The effects of monolingual and monocultural nation
imagining are far-reaching for linguistic and cultural minorities, in Japan
as in many other places across the world. For minorities, modernisation and
incorporation often went hand in hand with pressures to abandon local
languages and cultures. Monolingual nation-imagining ideology is one of the
major forces behind the unprecedented loss of linguistic diversity we are
witnessing today. Experts project that only 10-15% of the world's 6,000
languages are safe from extinction. In Japan, the Ainu languages, the
Ryukyuan languages and Ogasawara-Creole English are extremely endangered
while Japanese and Japanese sign language are safe. Many minority community
members are aware of such ?dark sides of modernity.? In this article
Okinawan language and cultural activist Fija Bairon speaks on the discovery
of his Okinawan identity and on his attempts to maintain and revitalize
Uchinaguchi, one of five Ryukyuan languages. An introduction addresses
issues of Ryukyuan language endangerment and the local attempts of language
revitalization.

 Read full article at: http://japanfocus.org/-Fija-Bairon/2586



On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM, s.t. bischoff <bischoff.st at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> An interesting article in the Japan Times today about Uchiniaguchi....
>
> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
> Okinawans push to preserve unique language
> By *AYAKO MIE<http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/JTsearch5.cgi?term1=AYAKO%20MIE>
> *
> Staff writer
> *Last in a series*
>
> NAHA, Okinawa Pref. ? Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis.
>
> Part of it is his looks. He's Japanese, born to a white American father
> and an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take
> more after his dad. But it's when he speaks that people are really taken
> aback.
>
> Fija is often asked why he speaks in Okinawa "hogen" (dialect), from
> people who assume he is a foreigner.
>
> More disconcerting is that he is asked this by fellow Okinawans, who
> should recognize what he is saying. Most recently, this occurred when he
> was asked about the Okinawan language during the taping of a Naha TV
> program.
>
> "I don't speak a dialect (of Japanese)," Fija protested when an
> Okinawa-born comedian questioned him about the way he speaks. "I speak
> Uchinaguchi, which is an independent language."
>
> Fija actually teaches Uchinaguchi, the local language spoken on the
> southern half of the main island of Okinawa.
>
> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120519f1.html
>
>
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From dwhieb at GMAIL.COM  Tue May 22 00:56:50 2012
From: dwhieb at GMAIL.COM (Daniel W. Hieber)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:56:50 -0400
Subject: Fwd: locating audio collections that are at risk
Message-ID: <MON.21.MAY.2012.205650.0400.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

A request from Nick Thieberger over at the Linguistic Typology listserv.

Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Nick Thieberger <thien at UNIMELB.EDU.AU>
> Date: May 21, 2012 8:04:08 PM EDT
> To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: locating audio collections that are at risk
> Reply-To: thien at unimelb.edu.au
> 
> I am writing to ask for your help in compiling a list of linguistic
> recordings that need to be digitised.
> 
> PARADISEC is a project that has been locating collections of
> recordings in small and endangered languages (see the current catalog:
> http://bit.ly/SearchParadisec) and digitising them where possible.
> 
> We are currently collecting information about further such collections
> and are asking if you could fill in a brief survey form (4 questions,
> listed below) on this page:
> http://www.paradisec.org.au/PDSCSurvey.html
> 
> Please feel free to distribute this message.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Nick Thieberger
> 
> *************************
> Project Manager,
> Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered
> Cultures (PARADISEC) http://paradisec.org.au
> 
> 
> 1. Do you know of recordings of small or endangered languages that are
> not yet digitised? These could be in personal collections or in
> established repositories that do not plan to digitise their
> collections. If so, please provide as much detail as you can about the
> number and type of recordings (reel to reel, cassette, DAT etc), the
> content, and the state of their current storage. Can you provide
> information about who to contact about these collections?
> 
> 2. Do you know of collections whose catalogs are not available through
> federated searches (that is, they are only available if you visit
> their website and not anywhere else on the web) and for which we could
> provide a reference to make it easier to find them?
> 
> 3. Do you know of repositories of manuscripts that have received
> little attention from linguists but which are likely, in your opinion,
> to have linguistic records in them? These may include, for example,
> missionary archives or State administrative archives.
> 
> 4. Please include your name and contact email so we can follow up with
> you if necessary (email addresses will not be added to any lists).
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May 22 06:37:55 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:37:55 -0700
Subject: BOOKS: Can language preservation battle be won? (fwd link)
Message-ID: <MON.21.MAY.2012.233755.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

BOOKS: Can language preservation battle be won?

By RICHARD L. CARRICO For the North County Times
US

Imagine speaking a language that is spoken by fewer than 200 people.
Visualize a culture where much of your spirituality, moral codes and
traditions are transmitted solely through spoken stories. Now put yourself
into a society where your sacred stories are seen by the dominant culture
around you as being nothing more than quaint, childish tales.

That and more is the linguistic and cultural plight of scores of native
people in our hemisphere. From at least 500 major languages spoken at the
time of Columbus' arrival in the Americas, many scholars believe that fewer
than 200 are spoken today. Worse yet, perhaps as many as 90 percent of the
languages extant today are now threatened with extinction or are spoken by
only a handful of elderly people.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May 22 06:39:30 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:39:30 -0700
Subject: Bemidji incorporates Ojibwe into city=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=signs
 and  daily life (fwd link)
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Bemidji incorporates Ojibwe into city?s signs and daily life

By Cynthia Boyd | 05/21/12
US

Tourists visiting Bemidji this summer may pick up a few words of a
?foreign? language.

That?s because the first city on the Mississippi River way north in
Minnesota may be the only town off a reservation trying to incorporate the
area?s indigenous Ojibwe language into daily life.

All over town Ojibwe language signs are posted right alongside English
language labels, and for a just cause. The signage is part of a broader
effort to preserve the language spoken by an estimated 60,000 persons
across areas of the northern United States and into Canada as well as to
bridge cultural divides between whites and American Indians.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May 22 06:42:16 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:42:16 -0700
Subject: Native American language advocate dies; Tom Parsons spent years
 promoting teaching of Indian languages (fwd link)
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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.

Tom Parsons' son Tim Parsons described him as a great father and an
altruistic, driven man.

?Somebody who really enjoyed life,? Tim Parsons said. ?He just cared a
great deal about people.?


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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Tue May 22 21:46:18 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 14:46:18 -0700
Subject: NG Explorers Help Record
 =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CHizzle=E2=80=9D_?=Language (fwd  link)
Message-ID: <TUE.22.MAY.2012.144618.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

NG Explorers Help Record ?Hizzle? Language

Posted by Andrew Howley on May 21, 2012

The Enduring Voices Project strives to preserve endangered languages by
identifying language hotspots?the places on our planet with the most
unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages?and
documenting the languages and cultures within them.

By Gregory Anderson of the Enduring Voices Project

The 2012 Enduring Voices expedition to the Siberia Language Hotspot has
allowed us to explore the current state of the Xyzyl (pronounced hizzle)
language from the Republic of Xakasia (pronounced ha-KAH-see-ya, also
spelled ?Khakasiya?).

We traveled across the birch-covered hills of southern Siberia and into the
wind-swept steppe dotted with ancient burial mounds until we reached the
Xyzyl territory northwest of Mongolia. We visited five villages and
identified fifty to sixty total speakers and semi-speakers.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 23 18:43:41 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:43:41 -0700
Subject: Preserving indigenous languages in Pacific a major challenge (fwd
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Preserving indigenous languages in Pacific a major challenge

Posted at 06:38 on 22 May, 2012 UTC
NZ

New Zealand?s Associate Minister of Education Pita Sharples says preserving
languages across the Pacific is a major challenge given their large numbers
in some countries.

Mr Sharples attended the Pacific Islands Forum Ministers of Education
meeting in Vanuatu last week where increasing literacy levels and
recommitting to native language education were key themes.

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From hsouter at GMAIL.COM  Thu May 24 21:14:05 2012
From: hsouter at GMAIL.COM (Heather Souter)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 16:14:05 -0500
Subject: Michif Language: First Ever University Level Course
Message-ID: <THU.24.MAY.2012.161405.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Taanshi!  Taansi!  Bo?zhur!  Hello!

We are pleased to announce that the University of Alberta's Canadian
Indigenous Language and Literacy Development Institute will offer its first
ever university-level course on the Michif language this summer!  Anyone
interested in Michif is welcome to attend.  Please see the poster for more
details.

Featured is elder Grace (Le Doux) Zoldy, a fluent speaker of Michif from
Camperville, Manitoba. Elder Zoldy's mother tongue is Michif.  She is a
tireless advocate for the revitalization and documentation of the language
(especially the use of the Master-Apprentice method) and has been honored
for her work many times. She also has been a consultant for a number of
major linguistic studies of Michif and has authored a book of prayers in
the language.

Co-instructing with "Ma Tant Grace" are Olivia Sammons (PhD student,
University of Alberta)  and Heather Souter (Michif Language Apprentice and
community scholar). Olivia is a doctoral student in linguistics with an
interest in language documentation and revitalization. She has experience
with Algonquian languages, in particular Sauk and Michif, and has been
involved with Michif language projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Heather Souter (Guiboche) is a Michif language advocate and lives in
Camperville, Manitoba where she has been learning the language from Elder
Zoldy.  Heather has attended sessions of both CILLDI and AILDI, pursued
graduate studies at the Universities of Kansas and Lethbridge, and now
works as an independent researcher.

Please use the contact information on the poster to register for the
course, or get in touch to find out more. We hope to see you there!

Eekoshi!

Heather Souter

Sent from my iPhone
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From susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM  Sat May 26 04:35:04 2012
From: susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM (Susan Penfield)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 21:35:04 -0700
Subject: PBS interview with Natalie Diaz --
Message-ID: <FRI.25.MAY.2012.213504.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

This is an introductory interview with Natalie Diaz -- Poet and Mojave
language activist -- about language and revitalization and more --
A longer PBS special will air soon!

http://video.pbs.org/video/2233488990

-- 
**********************************************************************************************
*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 mhermes at UMN.EDU  Sat May 26 13:30:22 2012
From: mhermes at UMN.EDU (Mary Hermes)
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 08:30:22 -0500
Subject: send a copy?
In-Reply-To: <CAMrsiFyiws_nD2g8qaD7vkWr_hZWyxS9dU8cDWpxrS-vy4qP6A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.26.MAY.2012.083022.0500.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hi Susan,
Can you send me a copy of :
Penfield, S., Cash Cash, P., Galla, C. K., Williams, T., & Shadowwalker, D. (2006).
Technology-enhanced language revitalization (2nd ed.). Tucson, AZ: Arizona
Board of Regents, University of Arizona.

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



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





On May 25, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Susan Penfield wrote:

> This is an introductory interview with Natalie Diaz -- Poet and Mojave language activist -- about language and revitalization and more -- 
> A longer PBS special will air soon!
> 
> http://video.pbs.org/video/2233488990
> 
> -- 
> **********************************************************************************************
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 


From rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Sat May 26 17:40:16 2012
From: rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike))
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:40:16 +0000
Subject: FW: LD&C Volume 6
In-Reply-To: <CAEuNOb9Vw6_jYX0uu3kgMbgKKS0PUf47VxLHyrJiiwP_1YvXLA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.26.MAY.2012.174016.0000.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>


________________________________________
From: owner-ldcsubscribers-l at lists.hawaii.edu [owner-ldcsubscribers-l at lists.hawaii.edu] on behalf of Nick Thieberger [thien at unimelb.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 11:14 PM
To: LDCSUBSCRIBERS-L at lists.hawaii.edu
Subject: LD&C Volume 6

Dear LD&C subscriber,

We are pleased to announce that we have uploaded six new articles and
two technology reviews for Volume 6 of the journal.

They are listed below and can be found here:
http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/current/

As usual, we upload items as they proceed through our production queue
and notify you twice a year of their availability.

We also put announcements on our FaceBook site,
https://www.facebook.com/ldcjournal (Please feel free to 'Like' us to
help spred the word)

Thanks for your continued support of LD&C,

Nick Thieberger
Editor
Language Documentation & Conservation Journal
http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/


Volume 6 of LD&C
Linguistic Data Types and the Interface between Language Documentation
and Description
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

Subcontracting Native Speakers in Linguistic Fieldwork: A Case Study
of the Ash?ninka Peren? (Arawak) Research Community from the Peruvian
Amazon
Elena I. Mihas

Participatory Methods for Language Documentation and Conservation:
Building Community Awareness and Engagement
Christina Lai Truong and Lilian Garcez

A Linguistic Assessment of the Munji Language in Afghanistan
Daniela Beyer and Simone Beck

Documenting Endangered Languages with Linguist?s Assistant
Stephen Beale

Getting the Story Straight: Language Fieldwork Using a Narrative
Problem-Solving Task
Lila San Roque, Alan Rumsey, Lauren Gawne, Stef Spronck, Darja
Hoenigman, Alice Carroll, Julia Colleen Miller and Nicholas Evans

Review of InqScribe
Murray Garde

Review of WeSay, A Tool for Collaborating on Dictionaries with Non-Linguists
Ross Perlin


From Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG  Mon May 28 07:19:49 2012
From: Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG (Dave Pearson)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 10:19:49 +0300
Subject: The world's languages in crisis: A 20-year update
Message-ID: <MON.28.MAY.2012.101949.0300.>

The world's languages in crisis: A 20-year update by Paul Lewis and Gary
Simons

 

"The world's languages in crisis" (Krauss 1992) ... surveyed the global
situation and estimated that only 10% of languages seem safe in the long
term, up to 50% may already be moribund, and the remainder are in danger of
becoming moribund by the end of this century. Twenty years later, better
information is available. In this paper we use information from the latest
edition of the Ethnologue (Lewis 2009), plus information being gathered for
the next edition, to offer an update to the global statistics on language
viability."

 

http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/Wisconsin%20Symposium.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 cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:12:38 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:12:38 -0700
Subject: Technology keeps Aboriginal native language alive (fwd link)
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Technology keeps Aboriginal native language alive

Education Editor Sheradyn Holderhead
May 27, 2012 11:00PM
AUS

TECHNOLOGY is helping save Aboriginal languages and traditional ceremonies
from dying out.

Inma - traditional ceremonies told through stories and dances - will be
filmed in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands and the Maralinga
Tjarutja Lands to create a DVD that community leaders can pass on to their
youth.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:15:23 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:15:23 -0700
Subject: Indigenous schooling's 'bold move' (fwd link)
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Indigenous schooling's 'bold move'

BY: NATASHA ROBINSON From: The Australian May 31, 2012 12:00AM
AUS

ABORIGINAL educators have welcomed the NSW government's plan for a radical
overhaul of indigenous education in the state, with highly paid principals
given unprecedented autonomy to spend money and hire staff.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/indigenous-schoolings-bold-move/story-fn9hm1pm-1226375618832

Article Quote:

"The strategy brands schools as "community hubs", with parents encouraged
to become stakeholders in their children's education amid an emphasis on
celebrating and nurturing indigenous culture, including the teaching of
indigenous languages."
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:17:19 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:17:19 -0700
Subject: Gov signs bills with impact on rural Alaska,
 including 1 establishing Native language council (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.141719.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Gov signs bills with impact on rural Alaska, including 1 establishing
Native language council

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: May 29, 2012 - 3:47 pm
US

JUNEAU, Alaska ? Gov. Sean Parnell has signed legislation that will impact
rural Alaska.

He said the state will join with Alaskans to make sure that Native
languages live on.

One of the three bills he signed in Dillingham on Sunday would establish
Alaska Native Language and Advisory Council. The council would be charged
with evaluating the state's indigenous languages and making recommendations
for preservation, restoration and revitalization.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:22:06 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:22:06 -0700
Subject: Indigenous Focus: Positive News for Indigenous Languages in Chile
 (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.142206.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Indigenous Focus: Positive News for Indigenous Languages in Chile

Written by Laura Seelau & Ryan Seelau on May 26, 2012.

In January of this year, we reported on a major study undertaken in Chile
reporting that less than 11 percent of indigenous people in Chile can both
speak and understand their native languages. The study raised some serious
concerns about whether Chile?s indigenous languages are facing extinction
in the near future. In addition, we have written on multiple occasions
about efforts being taken to improve the situation of indigenous languages
within the country, and this week brought some more positive news.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:24:10 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:24:10 -0700
Subject: Kids Can Learn Dakotah With Computer Games (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.142410.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Kids Can Learn Dakotah With Computer Games

By ICTMN Staff May 30, 2012
US

Earlier this year the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA)
announced two milestones, the completion of its Native Language Program
website and the completion of the games for kids and other Dakotah language
learners on that website.

The four language games?or Woskate?feature artwork by Lakota artist Pamela
Obelso, who created more than 1,000 pieces of original art for the AAIA
Native Language Program that can also be seen in more than 120 children?s
books available in the Dakotah and Lakota languages. Dakotah is a dialect
of the Sioux language.

Read more:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/30/kids-can-learn-dakotah-with-computer-games-115672
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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:25:58 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:25:58 -0700
Subject: Hannahville to host summer language camp (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.142558.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

Hannahville to host summer language camp

May 28, 2012
By Jason Raiche - staff writer (jraiche at dailypress.net) , Daily Press
US

HANNAHVILLE - The Hannahville Indian Community's Department of Culture,
Language and History will be hosting its summer language immersion camps
again at the Potawatomi Heritage Center from June to August, according to
organizers.

Potawatomi Language Coordinator Dawn Hill, from the Department of Culture,
Language and History at Hannahville's Potawatomi Heritage Center, said the
summer language immersion program is made possible through a three-year
grant from the Administration for Native Americans.

The Hannahville Indian Community has received funding for its ANA project
"Ewikkendaswat Ekenomagewat" - translated as "They Will Learn to Teach."
The project focuses on providing language instructor skills training during
the school year and summer language immersion camps to increase listening
and speaking fluency of the Potawatomi language.

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From cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU  Wed May 30 21:41:28 2012
From: cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU (Phillip E Cash Cash)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:41:28 -0700
Subject: App helps Aboriginal youths preserve Tlicho language (fwd link)
Message-ID: <WED.30.MAY.2012.144128.0700.ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>

 May 28, 2012 *
Updated:* May 28, 2012 | 6:50 pm
 CA
 App helps Aboriginal youths preserve Tlicho language
  <http://metronews.ca/author/hophoebe/>By Phoebe
Ho<http://metronews.ca/author/hophoebe/> Metro
Victoria

     <http://metronews.ca/news/victoria/241045/app-helps-aboriginal-youths-preserve-tlicho-language/#>
Metro/Screenshot/Apple.com A screenshot showing the Tlicho language iPhone
app.

Anyone who wants to brush up on their Tlicho language can now carry an
Aboriginal elder with them in their back pocket, thanks to a new smart
phone app.

University of Victoria associate professor of linguistics Leslie Saxon
partnered up with the Tlicho Community Services Agency to launch the free
Yati Dictionary App for the Tlicho language, one of the Dene languages of
the Northwest Territories, just this month.


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