{"id":368,"date":"2020-03-31T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T11:24:25","slug":"fel-2020-grant-signs-and-games-strategies-for-involving-youth-in-the-revitalization-of-two-varieties-of-mixtec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/fel-2020-grant-signs-and-games-strategies-for-involving-youth-in-the-revitalization-of-two-varieties-of-mixtec\/","title":{"rendered":"FEL 2020 grant: Signs and games: strategies for involving youth in the revitalization of two varieties of Mixtec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the fourth in our series of reports on FEL grants for 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview.<\/strong> The goal of this project is to involve younger members of the communities of San Sebasti\u00e1n del Monte <\/a>and Yucuquimi de Ocampo<\/a>, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, in revitalizing their Mixtec language<\/a>, and to motivate all members of the towns to do the same. The project will engage middle school and high school students in creating materials in Mixtec for the towns, in order to boost the interest of the community in preserving their language and teaching it to the younger generations. For example, they will create signs for the local health clinic showing terms for body parts and helpful information to aid older members of the community in communicating with the clinic staff. They will create signs that will be placed around town to encourage people to communicate in Mixtec, and to preserve knowledge of the traditional plants of the region and their Mixtec names. Finally, they will create games to share with other students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\" Grantee.<\/strong> This project is led by Iara Mantenuto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iara is a PhD studen<\/a>t in the Department of Linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has been training in linguistics fieldwork for the past eight years, at Syracuse University, at UCLA, and the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang<\/a>). She has worked on San Sebasti\u00e1n del Monte Mixtec for the past three years, and it is the subject of her dissertation. With Mr. F\u00e9lix C\u00f3rtes she has written an alphabet booklet for Mixtec, and they are working on an online dictionary. Iara has led three workshops in the town, dealing with language loss and identity, orthography, literacy, and tones. For the past two years she has been collaborating with Octavio Le\u00f3n V\u00e1zquez<\/a> of Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog\u00eda Social (CIESAS<\/a>), and they have run a workshop on literacy and tones in Yucuquimi de Ocampo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the fourth in our series of reports on FEL grants for 2020. Overview. The goal of this project is to involve younger members of the communities of San Sebasti\u00e1n del Monte and Yucuquimi de Ocampo, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, in revitalizing their Mixtec language, and to motivate all members of the … Continue reading FEL 2020 grant: Signs and games: strategies for involving youth in the revitalization of two varieties of Mixtec<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fel_grant2020-fel_grants","category-fel_grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}