The roles of literacy and collabortion in documenting Native American languages: A report from the Jicarilla Apache Dictionary Project

From: Sign Language Studies | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

THIS ARTICLE reports on the progress of a project to produce a dictionary of the Jicarilla Apache language. Jicarilla, an Eastern Apachean language, is spoken on the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico. Approximately 21 percent of the population is fluent in the language. This is a collaborative project involving linguists and a small circle of speakers in the Jicarilla Apache community in Dulce, New Mexico. Through this project we have learned much about the role of literacy in language standardization and in speaker empowerment, and we believe that many parallels exist ...

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