Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Jones, Mari C.

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Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316876305
• Artikelnr.: 49046391

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Mari C. Jones and Damien Mooney; 2. Who owns vernacular
literacy? Assessing the sustainability of written vernaculars Christopher
Moseley; 3. Hearing local voices: creating local content participatory
approaches in orthography development for non-dominant language communities
Mansueto Casquite and Catherine Young; 4. Orthographies 'in the making':
the dynamic construction of community-based writing systems among the
Náayeru of north-western Mexico Margarita Valdovinos; 5. Community-driven
goal centred orthography development: a Tsakhur case study Kathleen D.
Sackett; 6. Writing for speaking: the N uu orthography Sheena Shah and
Matthias Brenzinger; 7. Reflections on the Kala Bi¿atuwä, a three-year-old
alphabet, from Papua New Guinea Christine Schreyer; 8. When letters
represent more than sounds: ideology vs practicality in the development of
a standard orthography for Ch'orti' Mayan Kerry Hull; 9. The difficult task
of finding a standard writing system for the Sioux languages Avelino Corral
Esteban; 10. Orthography development in Sardinia: the case of Limba Sarda
Comuna Rosangela Lai; 11. Breton orthographies: an increasingly awkward fit
Steve Hewitt; 12. Spelling trouble: ideologies and practices in Giernesiei
/ Dgernesiais / Guernesiais / Guernésiais / Djernezié. . . Julia Sallabank
and Yan Marquis; 13. Orthography development on the Internet: Romani on
YouTube D. Viktor Leggio and Yaron Matras; 14. Is orthography creation
unavoidable for postvernacular languages? Case studies of Rama and
Francoprovençal revitalization Bénédicte Pivot and Michel Bert; 15.
Changing script in a threatened language: reactions to Romanization at
Bantia in the first century BC Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair.