historically written language ...

[Richard LaFortune]

Helper Neck is the Yupik holy man who developed the
less well known modern North American Indigenous
non-Roman orthography this past century, following
Sequoia's.  My first cousin Sophie and one of the
other folks  (I forget which) who worked on our
dictionary was able to finally interpret the writing
system he developed.   Sophie worked with Mike Krauss
at Alaska Native Language Center  The court's decision
is not reasonably informed and most certainly
culturally biased.  These are a couple of my relatives
who pressed the action- my family are Nicks and
Andrewses.
Anguksuar (Richard LaFortune)

--- Susan Penfield <susan.penfield at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Thanks for this -- the context does help. However,
> the notion of
> 'historically unwritten" is still troubling to me.
> Hasn't Yup'ik been written use since the late
> 1800's? ( I'm told that is
> when the church-based orthography
> came into use).
> 
> S.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:32 AM, William J Poser
> <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have posted my thoughts on the ruling, with
> links to the ruling
> > and other documents, on Language Log:
> > http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=396
> >
> > In context I don't think that the ruling is as
> outrageous as it
> > sounds.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>
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