Research Catalog

Title

Endangered languages and literacy : proceedings of the Fourth FEL Conference, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 21-24 September 2000 / editors, Nicholas Ostler and Blair Rudes.

Author

Foundation for Endangered Languages. Conference (4th : 2000 : Charlotte, N.C.)

Publication

Bath, England : Foundation for Endangered Languages, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ostler, Nicholas
• Rudes, Blair A.
• Foundation for Endangered Languages

Description

150 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Subject

• Literacy > Congresses
• Language maintenance > Congresses
• Linguistic minorities > Congresses
• Language obsolescence > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Charlotte (NC, 2000)
• Kongress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A community's solution to some literacy problems : the Mayangna of Nicaragua / Elena Benedicto -- Pathway to an acceptable Orthography / Francene Patterson -- Technology, literacy and orality : the case of the Coeur d'Alene language / Gary Sobbing, Audra Vincent --
• Building a future for our past : contemporary Guatemalan Mayan literature / R. McKenna Brown -- The future of Koho : a Mon-Khmer language of Viêt Nam / Neil H. Olsen -- The applied linguist in Indian Country : Preservation and revival of the Catawba language / Claudia Y. Heinemann-Priest -- How do you write Lisu? / David L. Morse, Thomas M. Tehan --
• Orthography as literacy : how Manx was 'reduced to writing' / Mark Sebba -- Four Orthographies for Forest Nenets? / Tapani Salminen -- When you choose, must you lose? : standard orthography versus dialect diversity / Blair A. Rudes --
• Developing a standard orthography for an oral language : the Innu (Montagnais) experiment / Anne-Marie Baraby -- Literacy ideologies and the future of Gascon / Thomas Field -- Perspective on literacy in endangered language revitalization / Patricia Shaw -- Incorporating literary style prior to literacy in the elementary tribal school / Kristin Denham, Kevin George, Erek Rensink, Jonathan Sarr --
• Literacy ability and practice in Peru : an Indigenous account / Kathleen Tacelosky -- The bilingual-bicultural literacy program for the Tarahumara of Chihuahua / Carla Paciotto -- The prospect of Taiwanese indigenous language instruction in Taiwan : looking at a successful American Indian community schoo / l Jiwas Bawan -- All literate and nothing to read : the problem of the lack of written literature in Rotuman / Marit Vamarasi --
• Gaulish literacy : a dying glimmer / Nicholas Ostler -- Orthography, lexicography, and language change / Ivy Doak, Timothy Montler -- Limitations of literacy in Bagri / Lakhan Gusain -- Semantic barriers to literacy in the Sierra Tarahumara / Julia E. Lonergan.

ISBN

0953824829

OCLC

• 45406657
• SCSB-13236511

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library