Posted on 30 September 2006 by wakablogger
The ELF newsletter is out and looks sharp. No fewer than 11 grants were made in 2006, benefitting projects for 12 languages and language groups: Arapaso (arj), Ghulfan (ghl), Kalabari (ijn), Karinya/Carib (car), Karapana (link to lineage), Kundal Shahi language (link to lineage), the signed Meemul Tziij complex (no Ethnologue entry), Pasi (listed as adi), [...]
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Posted on 29 September 2006 by wakablogger
The Ethnologue lists Oroha (ora) as nearly extinct. Oroha is spoken in the Solomon Islands, an archipelago located just off of Papua New Guinea, in the upper right corner of this map (in the public domain):
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Posted on 16 September 2006 by wakablogger
An endangered Finno-Ugric language, positive steps are being taken to promote this group of languages..
Sámi (or Saami) is a group of languages, evidently mutually unintelligible. See the Ethnologue entry for a classification breakdown.
The Sámi have lived in arctic Europe for thousands of years. Recalling learning about the Lapps of Lapland in elementary school, I was [...]
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Posted on 8 September 2006 by wakablogger
There is now a Tsisinstsistots (Cheyenne) dictionary online! Brought to the world by the good people at Chief Dull Knife College, the dictionary includes Tsisinstsistots > English and English > Tsisinstsistots sections. Abbreviations used in the dictionary are described on the Introduction page, which also includes links for printed versions of the dictionary and a [...]
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Posted on 4 September 2006 by wakablogger
As reported in the Green Book1, the Cochiti people do not feel their language should be written down. Stories and songs can be cultural property owned so that only the proper owner may tell or sing them as in the Pacific Northwest. Related to this is the question of whether non-native speakers should produce written [...]
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Posted on 1 September 2006 by wakablogger
Order a phrasebook to help your conversational Kodiak Alutiiq! Filled with 20 sections, this 44-page booklet has a variety of vocabularly selected to help you learn greetings, numbers, weather, hunting, and other helpful words. The accompanying CD follows the booklet and works on both Windows and Macintosh computers.
To order, e-mail receptionist@alutiiqmuseum.com or telephone the Museum [...]
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