Jaqaru is legal

[Richard Zane Smith]

MJ,
Thanks for sharing this
You and your dedication inspire many of us who are just beginning to turn
the spiral
from decimation to rebirth of language and culture.
It is a painfully tedious process so much of the time, and its easy to lose
power
for making the upstream journey.
But I like to think of these successes as OUR successes.

tizhameh, neh sezheraha's ( thank you, you'll be remembered)
ske:noh
Richard


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:40 AM, MJ Hardman <hardman at ufl.edu> wrote:

>  70 years after Dr. Dimas Bautista Iturrizaga began his search for a way
> to read and write his language and 50 years after I began my work and he
> developed Qillqyatxi, the grafemario for Jaqaru, based on my phonological
> analysis, Jaqaru is at last legal and can now be taught in the schools.  I'm
> still stunned.  We got the call at midnight Saturday night!.  The amount of
> work to make this happen is more than astounding.  Finally.  It will be
> publically announced at the Presentation of Dr. Bautista's book, *Mark
> Qillqa* — *TUPE* — *Estudio-Histórico Cultural de Marka–Tupe,* *Pueblo de
> habla Jaqaru,* *Año 750 D.C – 2010 (550 pages pt 10),* this evening.
>
> Now the next hard part: preparing people (we have one young man,
> semi-linguist, for whom we have not yet succeeded in obtaining support); the
> training of the teachers (I have given several classes; much more is needed
> and not by me alone); the Database we are building must be made fully and
> easily available for the native users (some 160 texts for Jaqaru and 110 for
> Kawki); we need to find funding to get the other half of my material online
> — the only source of monolingual speech; and Dr. Bautista's book needs to be
> in every classroom in Yauyos.  Among other things.
>
> Is it too little too late?  Between Dr. Bautista’s book and our internet
> work Jaqaru does now have a chance of surviving.  We hope.
>
> MJ
>
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