31.1473, Books: Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages: Jones, Mooney (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:32:56
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages: Jones, Mooney (eds.)

 


Title: Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/creating-orthographies-endangered-languages?format=PB 


Editor: Mari C. Jones
Editor: Damien Mooney

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316602584 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316602584 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316602584 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 29.17


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

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 N�ayeru 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 /
Guern�siais / Djernezi�. . . 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 Francoproven�al revitalization B�n�dicte 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): Language Documentation
                     Writing Systems


Written In: English  (eng)

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