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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 09 December 2007 - Volume 04
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">
Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">Minority Languages<br><br></span>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><font color="#000000" size="2">In our "Lowland Language territory" we have to do with
minority languages, influenced eventually (a bit) by our languages or
influencing somehow our LL languages even from within their minority position.
</font></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><font color="#000000" size="2">Often it is very difficult to get access to these enclosed
language islands, as e.g. for North American Indian
languages.</font></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><font color="#000000" size="2">In the Barnes & Noble in the Burkland Mall in
Manchester Ct, I found (for USD 29,95 minus 3 B&N card discount, + Ct sales
tax):</font></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Ruth
Bradley Holmes & Betty Sharp Smith: <b>Beginning Cherokee</b>, 2d
edition, 1977, ISBN 0-8061-1463-0, xiii + 332 pp.</font></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Question: are more Indian languages from
Anglo-Saxon N.America made accessible to a large public by similar
publications?</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Arial"><font size="2">Roger (momentarily in East-Hartford,
Ct)<br><br>----------<br><br></font></font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Resources<br><br>
Thanks a lot, Roger!<br><br>I happen to have that book, though in a box in California at the moment. There may be later editions, but I'm not sure.<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">Question: are more Indian languages from
Anglo-Saxon N.America made accessible to a large public by similar
publications?</font></div>
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Some yes, and some no. Some of the languages have so few speakers now that publishing is seen as less than feasible, and publications are usually of the academic ilk and are
<u>about</u> them, are not for the average person.<br>Language textbooks and primers that are relatively easily obtainable are those of the "larger" American indigenous languages or those in which research and schoolwork have lead to such publication;
e.g. Apache, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Cree, Eskimoan-Aleutian languages, Dakota-Lakota-Nakota, Hawaiian, Innu-Aimun (Montagnais), Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, Mayan languages, Michif, Mohawk, Navaho, Ojibwe and Quechua.<br>
<br>You still need to go out of your way to get hold of much of this material. Some of it has small circulations and a lot is out of print. Several universities and colleges run indigenous language courses and might let you purchase their material if you ask them for it. Some better bookstores stock textbooks for better-known languages such as Cherokee, Cheyenne, Cree, Lakota, Mohawk, Navaho, and usually also Hawaiian. Lately, material for indigenous languages of Latin America is being made available in English, mostly Mayan languages and Zapotecan (because of tourism in Mexico and Central America) and also Quechua (because of tourism in the Andes).
<br><br>I've found some of the best books, tapes and CDs (including better music CDs) in the market sections at larger powwow gatherings. Also, I find a lot in used book stores.<br><br>Below are a couple of useful resource pages:
<br></span><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>Alaskan and Northwest Canadian languages:<br><a href="http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/publications.html">http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/publications.html</a></li><li>Various languages:
<br><a href="http://www.native-languages.org/dictionary.htm">http://www.native-languages.org/dictionary.htm</a></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Have a good flight home!<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron
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