28.3756, Books: Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages: Jones, Mooney (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:39:09
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages: Jones, Mooney (eds.)

Title: Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/creating-orthographies-endangered-languages 

Editor: Mari C. Jones
Editor: Damien Mooney

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107148352 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107148352 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107148352 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20

Abstract:

Creating an orthography is often seen as a key component of language
revitalisation. Encoding an endangered variety can enhance its status and
prestige. In speech communities that are fragmented dialectally or
geographically, a common writing system may help create a sense of unified
identity, or help keep a language alive by facilitating teaching and learning.
Despite clear advantages, creating an orthography for an endangered language
can also bring challenges, and this volume debates the following critical
questions: whose task should this be - that of the linguist or the speech
community? Should an orthography be maximally distanciated from that of the
language of wider communication for ideological reasons, or should its main
principles coincide for reasons of learnability? Which local variety should be
selected as the basis of a common script? Is a multilectal script preferable
to a standardised orthography? And can creating an orthography create problems
for existing native speakers?

1. Introduction Mari C. Jones and Damien Mooney
2. Who owns vernacular literacy? Assessing the sustainability of written
vernaculars Christopher Moseley
3. Hearing local voices: creating local content participatory approaches in
orthography development for non-dominant language communities Mansueto
Casquite and Catherine Young
4. Orthographies 'in the making': the dynamic construction of community-based
writing systems among the Náayeru of north-western Mexico Margarita Valdovinos
5. Community-driven goal centred orthography development: a Tsakhur case study
Kathleen D. Sackett
6. Writing for speaking: the N|uu orthography Sheena Shah and Matthias
Brenzinger
7. Reflections on the Kala Biŋatuwã, a three-year-old alphabet, from Papua
New Guinea Christine Schreyer
8. When letters represent more than sounds: ideology vs practicality in the
development of a standard orthography for Ch'orti' Mayan Kerry Hull
9. The difficult task of finding a standard writing system for the Sioux
languages Avelino Corral Esteban
10. Orthography development in Sardinia: the case of Limba Sarda Comuna
Rosangela Lai
11. Breton orthographies: an increasingly awkward fit Steve Hewitt
12. Spelling trouble: ideologies and practices in Giernesiei / Dgernesiais /
Guernesiais / Guernésiais / Djernezié. . . Julia Sallabank and Yan Marquis
13. Orthography development on the Internet: Romani on YouTube D. Viktor
Leggio and Yaron Matras
14. Is orthography creation unavoidable for postvernacular languages? Case
studies of Rama and Francoprovençal revitalization Bénédicte Pivot and Michel
Bert
15. Changing script in a threatened language: reactions to Romanization at
Bantia in the first century BC Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair.

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems

Written In: English  (eng)

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