Indigenous Literacies in the Americas
Subtitle: Language Planning from the Bottom Up (Contributions to the Sociology of Language)
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter; De Gruyter
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9783110152173
Subjects: Literacy; Sociolinguistics; Native American Languages; American Indigenous Languages; Language; Writing; Indians; America; Language planning; Languages; Written communication
First sentence: The present volume documents goals, challenges, and prospects in contemporary efforts to develop alphabetic literacies in traditionally unwritten languages, using experiences in indigenous language development in the Americas as case study examples.