The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice
Contributors: Leanne Hinton (Editor); Kenneth Hale (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press; Brand: Emerald Group Publishing; Emerald Group Pub Ltd
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780123493538
First sentence: In a world of around 250 nations, there are over 6,000 languages.
Description: With world-wide environmental destruction and globalization of economy, a few languages, especially English, are spreading rapidly in use, while thousands of other languages are disappearing, taking with them important cultural, philosophical and environmental knowledge systems and oral literatures. We all stand to suffer from such a loss, none more so than the communities whose very identity is being threatened by the impending death of their languages. In response to this crisis, indigenous communities around the world have begun to develop a myriad of projects to keep their languages alive. This volume is a set of detailed accounts about the kind of work that is going on now as people struggle for their linguistic survival. It also serves as a manual of effective practices in language revitalization.- Publisher's description.