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| Title | Two Articles about the Role of Endangered Language Speakers in Academic Study |
| Body | Recently two articles about endangered languages and the role of academic were published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here are links to each of them: Languages on Life Support Linguists debate their role in saving the world's endangered tongues By PETER MONAGHAN June 1, 2009 Last year, when 89-year-old Marie Smith Jones died, a language died with her. Jones was the last speaker of a south-central Alaskan language called Eyak. Once used extensively along 350 miles of the Gulf of Alaska, Eyak had begun to die even before Jones's childhood, crowded out by other Alaska Native languages. Now, Eyak exists only in documentation, much of it compiled (with the help of Jones and other last speakers) by Michael E. Krauss, an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Preserving Eyak, at least in the form of a grammar, a dictionary, and other records, has occupied a large part of his career. Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i38/38linguistics.htm --- Another Kind of Language Expert: Speakers By PETER MONAGHAN June 1, 2009 As linguists search for ways to preserve at least a record of endangered languages, they increasingly are enlisting native speakers to help them in their work. Read the full article at http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i38/38linguisticsside.htm |
| Source | Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Inputdate | 2009-06-07 11:24:18 |
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| Publishdate | 2009-06-08 00:00:00 |
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