Teresa L. McCarty - A World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation

A World of Indigenous Languages

LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS

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LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS: 17

A World of Indigenous Languages

Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation

Edited by

Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas and Gillian Wigglesworth

MULTILINGUAL MATTERS

Bristol Blue Ridge Summit

DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/MCCART3064

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Names: McCarty, T.L., editor. | Nicholas, Sheilah E. (Sheilah Ernestine), editor. | Wigglesworth, Gillian, editor

Title: A World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation/Edited by Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas and Gillian Wigglesworth.

Description: Bristol; Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters, 2019. | Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights: 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018046180| ISBN 9781788923064 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781788923057 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781788923095 (kindle)

Subjects: LCSH: Language revival. | Linguistic minorities. | Language maintenance. | Language policy.

Classification: LCC P40.5.L357 W67 2019 | DDC 306.44/9dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018046180

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To ancestors whose languages and voices have been carried to the present so that their descendants and those yet to come will receive the giftsinheritance, birthright, history, and identitythat will guide them toward the future, and to all who work to sustain a world of Indigenous languages. Askwali. Ahhee. Thank you .

Front cover image: This photograph exemplifies how cultural understandings are passed on intergenerationally through the Indigenous language. Isaia Kealoha guides three kindergarten students as they learn how to work in the mla uala , or sweet potato garden, as he did as a child from his elders. Special appreciation goes to Isaia Kealoha, Kalmanamana Harman, Paeaokalani Lavin and Kekuahiwi Woods; photograph courtesy of Ke Kula O Nwahokalanipuu Iki Lab Public Charter School, Keaau, HI, USA.

Contents

Introduction

Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas and Gillian Wigglesworth

Barbra A. Meek

Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu

Cath Rau, Waimtao Murphy and Pem Bird

Serafn M. Coronel-Molina

Inge Kral and Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis

Mary Hermes and Kendall A. King

Marja-Liisa Olthuis and Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger

Sheilah E. Nicholas

Prem Phyak

Rosalva Mojica Lagunas

Pem Bird is a long-serving Mori educator and leader who has received several awards including the Queens Service Medal in 2008. He became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2017 and most recently won the Te Ururangi Award, all in recognition of his significant contribution to education. His influence stretches to asssisting with the development of Mori language strategies and serving on several Ministry of Education advisory and reference groups over the years. He held the position of president of the Mori Party for three years beginning in 2010, was the founding Chairperson of Ng Kura Iwi o Aotearoa and is the Principal of Te Kura Kaupapa Mori Motuhake o Twhiiuau in his beloved Ngti Manawa tribal area and home town, Murupara, in the Bay of Plenty.

Serafn M. Coronel-Molina is Associate Professor in the Department of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education at Indiana University, USA. His research appears in a number of book chapters published by prestigious European publishing houses, and in several international journals. He is the author of the Quechua Phrasebook (2014, 4th edition, Lonely Planet), and Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru , 2015, Multilingual Matters), and co-editor with Teresa L. McCarty of Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas (2016, Routledge). His research is multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary, drawing on fields as diverse as macro- and micro-sociolinguistics, educational linguistics/language education, applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, Andean Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies and Literacy Studies.

Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis is an Indigenous linguist and speaker of multiple Western Desert dialects. She has worked as an Ngaatjatjarra/Pitjantjatjara language teacher, interpreter/translator and dictionary worker over many decades. Having recently been awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Fellowship she is now affiliated with the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language and the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University, documenting and analyzing the verbal arts of her speech community.

Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger is a computational linguist and programmer working with Giellatekno, the Center for Saami Language Technology, at the University of Troms The Arctic University of Norway since 2008. He received a degree as a Diplom-Linguist from the Institute for Natural Language Processing (Institut fr Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS), University of Stuttgart, Germany. In his current position he works not only with all Saami languages but also with Kven, Menkieli, Komi and other minority languages. He assists both field linguists in language description and documentation and language activists in developing digital resources for language learning.