| Description |
1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages -- 2 Who Owns Vernacular Literacy? Assessing the Sustainability of Written Vernaculars -- 3 Hearing Local Voices, Creating Local Content: Participatory Approaches in Orthography Development for Non-Dominant Language Communities -- 4 Orthographies â#x80;#x98;In the Makingâ#x80;#x99;: The Dynamic Construction of Community-Based Writing Systems among the Náayeri of North-Western Mexico |
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5 Community-Driven, Goal-Centred Orthography Development: A Tsakhur Case Study6 Writing for Speaking: The NÇ#x80;uu Orthography -- 7 Reflections on the Kala BiÅ#x8B;atuwaÌ#x83;, a Three-Year-Old Alphabet from Papua New Guinea -- 8 When Letters Represent More Than Sounds: Ideology versus Practicality in the Development of a Standard Orthography for Châ#x80;#x99;ortiâ#x80;#x99; Mayan -- 9 The Difficult Task of Finding a Standard Writing System for the Sioux Languages -- 10 Orthography Development in Sardinia: The Case of Limba Sarda Comuna -- 11 Breton Orthographies: An Increasingly Awkward Fit |
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12 Spelling Trouble: Ideologies and Practices in Giernesiei/Dgernesiais/Guernesiais/Guernésiais/Djernezié â#x80;Œ13 Orthography Development on the Internet: Romani on YouTube -- 14 Orthography Creation for Postvernacular Languages: Case Studies of Rama and FrancoprovenÃal Revitalization -- 15 Changing Script in a Threatened Language: Reactions to Romanization at Bantia in the First Century BC -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
Creating an orthography is often seen as a key component of language revitalisation. Encoding an endangered variety can enhance its status and prestige. In speech communities that are fragmented dialectally or geographically, a common writing system may help create a sense of unified identity, or help keep a language alive by facilitating teaching and learning. Despite clear advantages, creating an orthography for an endangered language can also bring challenges, and this volume debates the following critical questions: whose task should this be - that of the linguist or the speech community? Should an orthography be maximally distanciated from that of the language of wider communication for ideological reasons, or should its main principles coincide for reasons of learnability? Which local variety should be selected as the basis of a common script? Is a multilectal script preferable to a standardised orthography? And can creating an orthography create problems for existing native speakers? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Endangered languages -- Orthography and spelling
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Language revival -- Social aspects
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Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Mari C., editor.
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Mooney, Damien, editor
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| ISBN |
9781316876756 |
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1316876756 |
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9781316876480 |
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1316876489 |
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9781316562949 |
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1316562948 |
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9781316602584 |
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1316602583 |
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1316876217 |
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9781316876213 |
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1316876306 |
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9781316876305 |
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