ELL: definitions for various terms re: minority languages

[Matthew McDaniel]

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 22:58:12 +0700
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Marion:

Over here in the corner, the guy with a blister on his pinky,

would it be too much to ask if were were to include in that list the number of
efforts currently publishing in the field, the difficulties they find, and
proportional moneys spent on studying indigenous languages vs publishing works
for the indigenous communities?

Matthew





Marion Gunn wrote:

> Jeff ALLEN wrote:
> > >...
> > And here are some excerpts from various recent papers (as you can tell, I
> > have a very good electronic collection of materials).
> >...
>
> So you have!
>
> >
> > where Minority languages tend to be multiple in a country where there is a
> > different majority official language.  In the UK, English is the official,
> > majority language, but there are many, many minority languages (East and
> > West Indian, Mid-East, etc).
> >
> > ____
> >
> > This message will certainly stir up some discussion on the topic.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Jeff
>
> It should! Now,ill you dip into that marvellous electronic collection of
> yours, Jeff, and come up with a list of organizations which further the
> cause of small linguistic communties. Please don't confine yourself to
> 'charity' organizations, but include official state, semi-state and
> self-help solidarity groups.
>
> Even if you can come up with only a dozen or so off the top or your
> head, as it were, for starters, perhaps more on ELL can help fill out
> the list. Then we can sort them into sizes, according to estimated size
> or turnover, then according to whether they are mainly outsider or
> insider run, sorted according to languages served, and then according to
> purpose (main purpose, subsidiary, including missionary). These are just
> a few possible elements to identify, among many.
>
> That should allow enough scope to create a good database to cover all
> possible groups involved in language maintenance.
>
> With best wishes,
> Marion Gunn
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