Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages
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Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages

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Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. 1 Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages
  9. 2 Who Owns Vernacular Literacy? Assessing the Sustainability of Written Vernaculars
  10. 3 Hearing Local Voices, Creating Local Content: Participatory Approaches in Orthography Development for Non-Dominant Language Communities
  11. 4 Orthographies ‘In the Making’: The Dynamic Construction of Community-Based Writing Systems among the Náayeri of North-Western Mexico
  12. 5 Community-Driven, Goal-Centred Orthography Development: A Tsakhur Case Study
  13. 6 Writing for Speaking: The Nǀuu Orthography
  14. 7 Reflections on the Kala BiƋatuwã, a Three-Year-Old Alphabet from Papua New Guinea
  15. 8 When Letters Represent More Than Sounds: Ideology versus Practicality in the Development of a Standard Orthography for Ch’orti’ Mayan
  16. 9 The Difficult Task of Finding a Standard Writing System for the Sioux Languages
  17. 10 Orthography Development in Sardinia: The Case of Limba Sarda Comuna
  18. 11 Breton Orthographies: An Increasingly Awkward Fit
  19. 12 Spelling Trouble: Ideologies and Practices in Giernesiei/Dgernesiais/Guernesiais/Guernésiais/Djernezié 

  20. 13 Orthography Development on the Internet: Romani on YouTube
  21. 14 Orthography Creation for Postvernacular Languages: Case Studies of Rama and Francoprovençal Revitalization
  22. 15 Changing Script in a Threatened Language: Reactions to Romanization at Bantia in the First Century BC
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index