N.M. first state to adopt Navajo textbook (fwd link)

[James Crippen]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 13:10, phil cash cash
<cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Dine Bizaad Binahoo'aah is an impressive publication because it adopts a
> speech community orientation in the presentation of language content/data.
> I hope this trend continues and other linguists/community language advocates
> follow this example.  Linguists should take careful note too as this
> publication has all the power of language description common to linguistics
> but is versatile enough to be adopted by a state in its public education
> system.
>
> This is by far better than force feeding a linguist's reference grammar to
> communities and students, dont' you think?  ;-)

Yes indeed. Linguistic work is hard for anyone but linguists to use.
But remember, you've really got to have a reference grammar before you
try to write a textbook. It's hard to teach a language without
reference materials...

James