SP27: Voices: Perspectives from the International Year of Indigenous Languages

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ISBN-13: 978-1-952460-05-0

Editors

Sarah Sandman, Shannon Bischoff, Jens Clegg

Abstract

In 2019, the United Nations declared an international year of Indigenous languages. The hope was that Indigenous languages and their importance would take the world stage. To that end, we decided to host a conference where people from around the world could come together to celebrate Indigenous languages. We asked potential conference participants to submit papers addressing these themes: Community achievements and Indigenous languages, community collaborations and partnerships, educational policy for language revitalization and maintenance, Indigenous languages into the 21st century, Indigenous voices in popular culture (e.g., social media, fiction, poetry, film, hip hop), Indigenous languages and multilingualism

Contents

Volume Introduction
Sarah Sandman, Shannon Bischoff, Jens Clegg

Front Matter
Published as a Special Publication of Language Documentation & Conservation

Linguistic Factors in Intergroup Relations and Democratic Governance in Nigeria
Adegboye Adeyanju. 1-12.

Workshopping for the Indigenous future: Indigenizing approaches that shift Indigenous language reclamation ideologies and increase perceptions of possible futures.
Bri Alexander. 13-26

Revitalizing Cameroon Indigenous Languages Usage in Empowering Realms
Kelen Ernesta Fonyuy. 27-40.

From the Square to the Page, and onto the other Page: The Order of Things in Basque Poetry in Translation
Amaia Gabantxo. 41-53

Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Colonizers: The Rejection of Manifest Destiny and Construction of an Alternate World Using Indigenous Futurisms in Popular Media
Courtney-Sophia W. Henry. 54-61.

What documenting for reclamation looks like: Ojibwemowin Forest Walks
Mary Hermes, Mel Engman, James McKenzie, Meixi. 62-74.

Kachin orature project: Documentation, archiving, and revitalization of oral heritage in northern Myanmar
Keita Kurabe, Lu Awng. 75-93.

Politics on the Periphery: The Challenges of Indigenous Linguistic Nationalism(s) in the Peruvian altiplano
Sandhya Krittika Narayanan. 94-104.

Redes de colaboración para la revitalización de las lenguas indígenas: la experiencia nasa-vasca
Creating networks and partnerships for Indigenous language revitalization: the Nasa-Basque experience
Ane Ortega, Arkaitz Zarraga. 105-116.

Making Dictionaries of Lesser-Known Indigenous languages: Coding of Lexical Semantic Information
Umarani Pappuswamy. 117-135.

Towards an Indigenously-informed Model for Assessing the Vitality of Native American Languages: a Southern Arizona Pilot Project
Tyler Peterson, Ofelia Zepeda. 136-154.

Creating wide networks of support for Indigenous languages: The workshop on Community-based Language Research Across the Americas (CBLRAA)
Katherine J. Riestenberg, Melvatha Chee, Tania Granadillo, Shannon Bischoff. 155-164.

NAMA in the IYIL 2019 Perspectives: Celebrating 20 Years Training Native Scholars in Linguistics
W. D. L. Silva, Amy Fountain, Bri Alexander, Corey Roberts, Mosiah Bluecloud, Joseph Dupris, Joseph Marks. 165-178.

Indigenous Community Media for Language Survival in Nepal
Dev Kumar Sunuwar. 179-185.

Proclamación y Celebración del Año Internacional de Lenguas Indígenas por Las Naciones Unidas
Proclamation and Celebration of The International Year of Indigenous Languages by The United Nations
Diego Tituaña. 186-196.

A Text Documentation and Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of Ibibio Women’s Satirical Folksongs
Eshiet Udosen, Ogbonna Anyanwu. 197-215.