Indigenous Language Unification

[Kerim Friedman]

Thanks Christina.

Richard Weiner also mentioned the case of Romansch in Switzerland.

If anyone knows of other cases where speakers of a minority language
voluntarily chose language standardization in order to overcome
language loss (despite extensive language variation) please let me
know!

Cheers,

Kerim


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Christina Paulston <paulston+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
> In answer to Kerim Friedman's query.
>         Try B. Brown, "The social consequences of writing Louisiana French"
> Lge in Society, 1993, 22, 67-101.  She references her dissertation in that
> article as well.  Standardization does not necessarily combat lge loss,
> you'll find.  Ladin is a very interesting case.  C B Paulston
>
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>  On Apr 14, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Kerim Friedman wrote:
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> > Dear list members,
> >
> > I'm trying to find examples of indigenous communities who agreed to
> > overcome considerable language variation to adopt a single unified
> > standard in order to be able to combat language loss.
> >
> > Any information would be helpful, but actual citations would be even
> > more welcome.
> >
> > Please reply off-list and I will summarize and repost to the list.
> >
> > oxusnet at gmail.com
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > kerim
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> > College of Indigenous Studies
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