37.453, Qs: Seeking Speakers, Activists or Language Community Members of Akan, Guaraní, Navajo, Hawaiian, Tswana, Te Reo Māori

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Subject: 37.453, Qs: Seeking Speakers, Activists or Language Community Members of Akan, Guaraní, Navajo, Hawaiian, Tswana, Te Reo Māori

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Date: 02-Feb-2026
From: Leon Grausam [lgrausam at uni-bremen.de]
Subject: Seeking Speakers, Activists or Language Community Members of Akan, Guaraní, Navajo, Hawaiian, Tswana, Te Reo Māori


I’m Leon Grausam and currently a research associate at the University
of Bremen. Within my research I’m trying to find out what might be
parts of “Language Activism” and how this rather new concept can be
made fruitful as a tool for bottom-up research in indigenous
languages. Therefore, I created a very short questionnaire. As many of
you are well connected with speakers of minoritized and indigenous
languages, I would like to kindly ask for your collegial help to
disseminate this questionnaire. I’m especially interested in speakers,
activists or community members of Akan-Twi, Avañe’ẽ (Guaraní), Diné
bizaad (Navajo), ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian), Setswana (Tswana), Te Reo
Māori.
If interested, I can send out a poster to publicly post. Any kind of
sharing, posting, sending out goes a long way and will help me
represent indigenous and minoritized voices in academic research. The
link to the questionnaire is the following:
https://www.t1p.de/language_activism
In case you want to further connect, exchange on the topic of language
activism or want to stipulate any cooperation, don’t hesitate to
contact me. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Akan (aka)
                     Guarani (grn)
                     Hawaiian (haw)
                     Navajo (nav)
                     Tswana (tsn)




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