Tribe Searches For Language (language)

[Carl Anderson]

Thanks, Andre, I really enjoyed that article. I grew up right around the area where the Shinnecock and Unkechaug live, and I remember being frustrated as a kid that there was so little information about the local indigenous languages.  (For example, we were surrounded by place-names clearly drawn from these languages, and no one could tell me what they meant.) Hopefully, that is something that could change with this resuscitation project.

 

These days, though my principal academic duties remain connected with a program training teachers of English, I’ve just about got my department launching a new program to train teachers of indigenous languages here in Colombia. J Availability of resources rather demands that we focus on still living language communities – but one hopes that some of the extinct but reasonably well documented languages might someday be able to get the resuscitation treatment, too.  (Even if such resuscitated languages never became widely spoken again, they might well remain valuable cultural elements – and I work in a department of language AND culture. J )

 

Meanwhile, though, I still look forward to learning more about Eastern Algonquian languages from the region around where I grew up, and would welcome information about the languages or projects to revitalize or resuscitate them (partially because the information might be relevant and useful to my own work in Colombia, but also just because I still want to know about these languages! J)

 

Cheers,
Carl

 

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Carl Edlund Anderson

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Department of Foreign Languages & Cultures

Universidad of The Sabana

Chia, Colombia

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From: Andre Cramblit [mailto:andrekar at NCIDC.ORG] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:02 PM
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Subject: Tribe Searches For Language (language)

 

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