University of Utah Shifts Focus to Tribal Languages (fwd link)

[Jordan Lachler]

<< “It’s not just about rescuing some cute little language,” Goddard added.
“It’s learning about human intellectual capacity in general. The goal is to
find the universal hard-wired blueprint for language everyone is born
with.” >>

*sigh*

Jordan

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> University of Utah Shifts Focus to Tribal Languages, Some Fear World
> Indigenous Languages Will Be Left Behind
>
> By ICTMN Staff October 3, 2012
> USA
>
> At the end of August, the University of Utah announced that the Center
> for American Indian Languages (CAIL) would be dissolved into the
> American West Center (AWC) and that CAIL’s Native American language
> training and study programs would be moving to the Language Center in
> the College of Humanities.
>
> “This restructuring will allow us to focus more effectively on our
> unwavering commitment to the Utah tribes, eliminating duplication
> while enhancing our current projects and developing new ones,” said
> Robert Newman, Dean of the College of Humanities, in a university
> release. “Merging existent programs from within CAIL combined with the
> solid leadership we have in the American West and Language Centers is
> clearly the most efficient way to accomplish these goals.”
>
> Not everyone sees this as a positive step though, including Jeff
> Pynes, a Ph.D. student whose work focuses on the Tolupan of Central
> America, and Ives Goddard, a senior linguist with the Smithsonian
> Institution.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/03/university-of-utah-shifts-focus-to-tribal-languages-some-fear-world-indigenous-languages-will-be-left-behind-137290
>
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