book

[Nicholas Thieberger]

Members of this list may be interested in a book called 'How to keep
your language alive' by Leanne Hinton, Matt Vera and Nancy Steele,
available from the USA at this site:
http://www.heydaybooks.com/public/books/kyla.html

The blurb says:
Amid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and
a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it:
they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one-on-one
approach that has been remarkably successful in ensuring new speakers
will take the place of those, often elderly, who are fluent in an
endangered language.

How to Keep Your Language Alive is a manual for students of all
languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh; complete with
exercises that can-can and should-be done in the most ordinary of
settings, written with great simplicity and directness by a member of
the linguistics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.


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