Re: Conlang sighting in Mother Jones
| From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 1, 2004, 5:44 |
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Roger wrote:
<<Going out to do salvage work on native languages used to be
standard procedure in California Univ. anthro/ling. depts.; I wonder if they
still do it. $$$$ IIRC the Smithsonian used to sponsor similar efforts,
perhaps still does. I never did it, but should have. (Well, it would beat
driving a taxi, though I never resorted to that either....)>>
Leanne Hinton at Berkeley was the big one for that. Now, though, I think
the project has shifted gears. What Leanne does now is she gives seminars
and how to revive a dead or nearly extinct language. What happens is that
people who are interested who live in the various reservations all over
California come to these institutes and they learn how best to revive their
native language. So rather than linguists documenting dying languages,
native speakers are reviving their own languages. There should be a website
on it somewhere or other... Huh. I can't seem to find one. It happens,
though.
-David
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