Workshop to preserve Tiwa language (fwd link)

Scott Delancey delancey at uoregon.edu
Sun Jul 21 22:50:08 UTC 2013


 

Oh, sorry .. in my last post I obviously missed George Ann's point
altogether. Yes, it's different, this Tiwa is spoken in Assam, India,
has tens of thousands of speakers and a certain amount of political
muscle. 

Scott DeLancey 

On 2013-07-21 15:37, Daryn McKenny wrote: 

>
Pretty sure different Tiwa i.e.. Not NM, TX etc. 
> 
> From: George Ann
Gregory <holabitubbe at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "ilat at list.arizona.edu"
<ilat at list.arizona.edu>
> Date: Sunday, 21 July 2013 8:14 AM
> To:
"ilat at list.arizona.edu" <ilat at list.arizona.edu>
> Subject: Re: [ilat]
Workshop to preserve Tiwa language (fwd link) 
> 
> Has any body checked
with the Tiwa speaking people to see if they want this done. Some of the
Pueblos have restrictions on how the language can be displayed and by
whom. 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Phil Cash Cash
<weyiiletpu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> WORKSHOP TO PRESERVE TIWA
LANGUAGE
>> 
>> TNN | Jul 19, 2013, 12.23 AM IST 
>> 
>> INDIA 
>> 
>>
GUWAHATI: Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art and Culture
(ABILAC) has initiated a workshop on Tiwa language for a comprehensive
trilingual dictionary to develop and standardise the endangered language
and to a preserve and propagate it among the community. 
>> 
>> Access
full article below: 
>>
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Workshop-to-preserve-Tiwa-language/articleshow/21152237.cms
[1]
> 
> -- 
> George Ann Gregory, Ph.D.
> Choctaw/Cherokee
> Fulbright
Scholar
> 
> "...everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an
herb to cure it, and every person a mission. " Mourning Dove (Salish)



Links:
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[1]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Workshop-to-preserve-Tiwa-language/articleshow/21152237.cms
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