<div dir="ltr">Begs the question, is modern American English as it is currently written a historically written language?<br><br>Andrew<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/24 Donald Z. Osborn <<a href="mailto:dzo@bisharat.net">dzo@bisharat.net</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What is the background on this category "historically written language"? (Academically, legally.) Although there may be a use for such a description, it sounds like it can too readily be misused as a pretext for linguistic discrimination.<br>
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Don<br>
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Subject: [ILAT] Court rules against Yup''ik as an historically written language (fwd media link)<br>
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Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN)<br>
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Court rules against Yup''ik as an historically written language<br>
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Fri, July 18, 2008<br>
Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories<br>
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A Federal Judge has ruled that Yup''ik is not an historically written language.<br>
The ruling is part of a lawsuit brought on by Yup''ik elders and tribes against<br>
the State of Alaska and the City of Bethel. The ruling by Judge Timothy Burgess<br>
could limit the kind of language assistance the state is required to provide.<br>
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Shane Iverson, KYUK - Bethel<br>
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Access radio podcast below:<br>
<a href="http://aprn.org/2008/07/18/court-rules-against-yupik-as-a-historically-written-language/" target="_blank">http://aprn.org/2008/07/18/court-rules-against-yupik-as-a-historically-written-language/</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Andrew Cunningham<br>Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator<br>State Library of Victoria<br>Australia<br><br><a href="mailto:andrewc@vicnet.net.au">andrewc@vicnet.net.au</a><br>
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