neologisms

[Claire Bowern]

Rob Amery's book on Kaurna has a section on neologisms and how
different strategies were chosen, based on community feedback.
http://www.amazon.com/Warrabarna-Reclaiming-Australian-Multilingualism-Linguistic/dp/9026516339
Claire

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Hammond, Michael - (hammond)
<hammond at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Subject: Re: [ilat] Neologisms and Indigenous Languages
> Date: August 26, 2014 9:40:05 AM MST
> To: Adrienne Tsikewa <miss_adrienne7 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: ILAT <ilat at list.arizona.edu>
>
>
> Hi Adrienne
>
> I know for Welsh there is at least one group that does this as contract work
> for the government or private companies. For example, some company might
> want to have Welsh terminology, for recording studios. This group goes in
> and surveys the recording community about existing words that might already
> be used, proposes new ones where needed. I believe they do surveys again
> about whether the new ones work.
>
> Of course, it's an evolving thing, so the words may or may not catch on.
> It's what you might expect. They might propose some morphologically complex
> form for a novel item, but the English borrowing is more appealing, or vice
> versa.
>
> Is it necessary? I would think definitely so. If, for example, there were no
> Welsh words for the things in a recording studio, otherwise fluent Welsh
> speakers would turn to English in that setting...and it would be one more
> area where the language could lose ground.
>
> mike h.
>
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Adrienne Tsikewa wrote:
>
> Good morning ILAT,
>
> I am interested in learning more  on how Indigenous Language communities not
> only create new words in their respective languages ( I did find an article
> by Ryan Denzer-King), but also how these communities may feel about these
> neologisms.
>
> Are the communities actually using them? How were they introduced to the
> community? Is this necessary for language maintenance/revitalization?
>
> Thanks/Elahkwa,
>
> Adrienne Tsikewa
>
>