This volume documents goals, challenges, and prospects in contemporary efforts to develop literacies in traditionally unwritten languages, using experiences in indigenous language development in the Americas as case studies. Written by scholars and practitioners who have in many cases devoted their careers or lifetimes to developing indigenous literacies from the bottom up, the volume gives testimony to the vitality, versatility and stability of the languages and their speakers, to the enormous confidence and energy invested in literacy as a means of preserving and extending the languages, and to the role of indigenous literacies as door opportunity and medium of expression for those who have long been marginalized in their societies. The work collected here represents an unusual confluence of research and scholarship in language planning and bilingual education, the new literacy studies, and native and Latin American studies. The contributors are well qualified to write, whether as 'insider' member of the indigenous community or 'outsider' scholar with substantial experience in the community; inclusion of both kinds of expert voices ensures a particularly reliable account. At a time when phrases like 'endangered languages' and 'linguicism' are invoked to describe the plight of the world's vanishing linguistic resources in their encounter with the phenomenal growth of world languages such as English, the cases included here offer stirring evidence that all is not lost.
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The present volume documents goals, challenges, and prospects in contemporary efforts to develop alphabetic literacies in traditionally unwritten languages, using experiences in indigenous language development in the Americas as case study examples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bilingual intercultural education program, language revitalization efforts, parka patterns, pedagogical advisors, indigenous literacies, unified alphabet, reversing language shift, mother tongue literacy, bilingual education project, language planning efforts, indigenous literacy, indigenous teachers, local literacies, nonliterary languages, official alphabet, native language literacies, traditional literacy, needle fish, indigenous authors, language maintenance, bilingual educators, language renewal, literacy policy, endangered languages, corpus planning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rough Rock, American Indian, United States, Peach Springs, Ministry of Education, New York, Latin America, Cambridge University Press, New Mexico, Luis Enrique, Jerry Lipka, Pueblo de Cochiti, Maria Arguedas, Department of Education, The Hague, Multilingual Matters, San Antonio de Cucupuro, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Bilingual Castilianization, Estudios Superiores, John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, Revista Andina, South America, Special Subcommittee New!
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Rough Rock, American Indian, United States, Peach Springs, Ministry of Education, New York, Latin America, Cambridge University Press, New Mexico, Luis Enrique, Jerry Lipka, Pueblo de Cochiti, Maria Arguedas, Department of Education, The Hague, Multilingual Matters, San Antonio de Cucupuro, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Bilingual Castilianization, Estudios Superiores, John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, Revista Andina, South America, Special Subcommittee New!
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