A Race to Rescue Native Tongues

Autor/in	Ashburn, Elyse
Titel	A Race to Rescue Native Tongues
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2007) 5, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	United States History; American Indian Languages; Language Maintenance; Cultural Maintenance; Language Skill Attrition; Language Usage; Public Colleges; Tribally Controlled Education; Sociolinguistics; Tribes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachpflege; Sprachverfall; Sprachgebrauch; Soziolinguistik; Tribal society; Stammesgesellschaft
Abstract	Of the 300 or so native languages once spoken in North America, only about 150 are still spoken--and the majority of those have just a handful of mostly elderly speakers. For most Native American languages, colleges and universities are their last great hope, if not their final resting place. People at a number of institutions across the country are working to document the languages so they do not become a lost part of American history. Where possible, they are trying to revitalize indigenous languages by teaching them to undergraduates, training schoolteachers, and creating language-learning materials. Here, the authors describe some of these efforts to preserve cultures by saving words. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10