mathias | May 31, 2011
Samoan Language Week kicks off in New Zealand (Where Samoan is the third most commonly spoken language) at Wellington East Girls’ College, right on on Samoan Independence Day. O fanau a tagata e fafaga i upu, a o fanau a manu e fafaga i fugalaau. The young of birds are fed with the blossoms of [...]
Category: Samoan |
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Tags: New Zealand, Samoan, Samoan Independence Day, Samoan Language Week, Wellington East Girl's College
Richard Littauer | May 31, 2011
Several Hawaiian educators recently traveled to Washington to talk to the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Specifically, they were talking about the success and worth of immersion programs in native languages. “These languages are crucial to Native American literature, ceremonial life, spirituality, kinship practices, and overall indigenous identity,” said Namaka Rawlins, a liaison from [...]
Category: Hawaiian, Native Language Events |
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Tags: 'Aha Punana Leo, Hawaiian, immersion, Maui Now, Namaka Rawlins, Ni'ihau, UH Hilo College of Hawaiian Language
mathias | May 10, 2011
The Society to Advance Indigenous Vernaculars of the United States (SAIVUS) is associated with VizLingo, a social-media company above Tumblr., which is creating the world’s first global visual language. Essentially, the program they’re inventing garnishes text with video clips, allowing word definitions (and entire worldviews) to be seen in conjunction with how they are written [...]
Category: Cherokee, Dakota (Santee Sioux, Yankton Sioux), Hawaiian, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Native Language Events, Plains Indian Sign Language |
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Tags: anthropological linguistics, Cherokee, Dakota, dialectology, documentation, Hawaiian, Lakota, language, linguistics, pedagogy, PISL, Plains Indian Sign Language, revitalization, SAIVUS, semiotics, Society to Advance Indigenous Vernaculars of the United States, sociolinguistics, technology, Tumblr., visual language, VizLingo
mathias | May 10, 2011
Northeastern State University’s Annual 39th Cherokee Nation Symposium ran from April 11th – 16th, which was, as always, free to the public thanks to financial support from the Oklahoma Humanities Council, Oklahoma Arts Council, Cherokee Nation Cultural Tourism, Muscogee Creek Nation Casino, Proctor and Gamble and numerous private donors. Native speaking Cherokee linguist and University [...]
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Tags: 39th Cherokee Nation Symposium, Agreeing to Agree: How Words are Linked Together, Alex Cobb, borrowing, Brad Montgomery-Anderson, Cherokee, Cherokee dialects, Cherokee dictionary, Cherokee grammar, Cherokee language, Cherokee Nation Cultural Tourism, Cherokee Nation Symposium, Cherokee Phoenix, Cherokee-English Dictionary, Danielle Culp, dialectology, Dictionary, Durbin Feeling, Harry Oosahwee, Indigenous Language Documentation and Revitalization, Marcellino Berardo, Miss Cherokee, Muscogee Creek Nation Casino, Native American Student Association, Northeastern State University, NSU Native American Student Association, Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma Hummanities Council, Oosahwee's Cherokee Language Forum, PBS, Proctor and Gamble, revitalization, song, Southern Methodist University, Tesina Jackson, Theda Purdue, University of Kansas, University of Kansas Applied English Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, We Shall Remain: Cherokee Language, William Pulte
