Proceedings of the Foundation for Endangered Languages conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, 21-24 September 2000

Endangered Languages and Literacy
edited by Nicholas Ostler and Blair Rudes
Bath: FEL, 2000
ISBN 0-9538248-2-9

A 150-page volume, handsomely produced, with a keynote address by Ofelia Zepeda, and the contents look like this:

Endangered Languages and Literacy
Foundation for Endangered Languages
Charlotte, North Carolina - 21-24 September 2000
Index of Authors 5
Index of Languages and Families 7

Section 1 Opening the Book 9
Nicholas Ostler, Blair Rudes Preface: Endangered Languages and Literacy. 11
Ofelia Zepeda Keynote Address: On Native Language Literacy: a Personal Perspective. 13

Section 2 Literacy from Within 17 Elena Benedicto A Community's Solution to Some Literacy Problems: the Mayangna of Nicaragua. 19
Francene Patterson Pathway to an Acceptable Orthography. 25
Gary Sobbing, Audra Vincent Technology, Literacy and Orality: the Case of the Coeur d'Alene Language. 29
R. McKenna Brown Building a Future for Our Past: Contemporary Guatemalan Mayan Literature. 35

Section 3 Choosing an Orthography 41
Neil H. Olsen The Future of Koho: a Mon-Khmer Language of Vi�t Nam. 43
Claudia Y. Heinemann-Priest The Applied Linguist in Indian Country: Preservation and Revival of the Catawba language. 47
David L. Morse, Thomas M. Tehan How Do You Write Lisu? 53
Mark Sebba Orthography as Literacy: How Manx was 'Reduced to Writing'. 63

Section 4 Literacy and Dialect Diversity 71
Tapani Salminen Four Orthographies for Forest Nenets? 73
Blair A. Rudes When You Choose, Must You Lose? Standard Orthography Versus Dialect Diversity. 74
Anne-Marie Baraby Developing a Standard Orthography for an Oral Language: the Innu (Montagnais) Experiment. 78
Thomas Field Literacy Ideologies and the Future of Gascon. 85

Section 5 Promoting Literacy 91>
Patricia Shaw Perspectives on Literacy in Endangered Language Revitalization 93
Kristin Denham, Kevin George, Erek Rensink, Jonathan Sarr Incorporating Literary Style Prior to Literacy in the Elementary Tribal School. 94
Kathleen Tacelosky Literacy Ability and Practice in Peru: an Indigenous Account. 99
Carla Paciotto The Bilingual-Bicultural Literacy Program for the Tarahumara of Chihuahua. 103
Jiwas Bawan The Prospect of Taiwanese Indigenous language Instruction in Taiwan: Looking at a Successful American Indian Community School 113
Marit Vamarasi All Literate and Nothing to Read: the Problem of the Lack of Written Literature in Rotuman. 119

Section 6 Cautionary Notes 123
Nicholas Ostler Gaulish Literacy: a Dying Glimmer. 125
Ivy Doak, Timothy Montler Orthography, Lexicography, and Language Change. 132
Lakhan Gusain Limitations of Literacy in Bagri. 139
Julia E. Lonergan Semantic Barriers to Literacy in the Sierra Tarahumara. 142

Foundation for Endangered Languages: Manifesto 150

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