Fray Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta’s Work on California’s Native Languages

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97-119
Author(s):  
Catherine Fountain
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Alta California ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Mission Period

Summary This article describes the linguistic work of Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta (1780–1840), a Franciscan missionary from Spain who lived and worked in the missions of Alta California for some 32 years. He was the most prolific chronicler of the indigenous languages of Alta California during the mission period, writing a vocabulary and grammar of the Costanoan/Ohlone language Mutsun, taking notes on a Yokuts language he called Nopthrinthres, and compiling shorter word lists and religious texts in numerous other languages. The present work seeks to bring together and analyze what information is available about Arroyo de la Cuesta’s life and writings and place these within the broader field of missionary linguistics.

scholarly journals Media, Culture and Indigenous Languages in Pakistan: A Critical Review

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Irem Sultana ◽  
Malik Adnan ◽  
Muhammad Imran Mehsud
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research paper inspected the role of Pakistani media to protect indigenous languages and culture in Pakistan. The study examined the situation; if Pakistani media outpours concern with the native languages or not. The article also checked the media landscape, its language-wise segregation and scenario of literacy in different areas of the country. The outcomes of the study showed that Pakistani media is neglecting the indigenous languages. The study results exhibited clearly that media houses’ focus on protecting native languages, is not profound. The findings also showed that foreign ownership of Media houses plays a role in neglecting indigenous language promotions. The current study presented that Pakistani mainstream media is damaging the local and native languages. The study was the outcome of qualitative content analysis and in-depth interviews of senior communication experts.

scholarly journals The First Astronomical Text Published in the American Continent

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 435-437
Author(s):  
Marco Arturo Moreno-Corral ◽  
William J. Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
And Algebra ◽  
Mathematics Book

AbstractIn 1539 the Italian Giovanni Paoli, better known as Juan Pablos, began operating in Mexico City the first printing press that existed in the New World. The first books he printed were religious texts, vocabularies of some indigenous languages of Mexico, and compilations of ordinances and laws. In 1556 followed the Sumario compendioso de las cuentas, a text of arithmetic and algebra that was the first American mathematics book. A year later, he printed the Physica Speculatio by friar Alonso de la Veracruz, a text of Natural Philosophy that dealt with Aristotelian works such as Physics, On the Heavens, and Meteorology. As part of this book, was included the text of geocentric astronomy written during the thirteenth century by the Italian mathematician Giovanni Campano de Novara, entitled Tractatus de Sphaera, where the author discussed, from a geometric perspective, the cosmic structure and the stellar distribution. No doubt this is the first astronomical treatise that was published in the entire American continent, which is why it is emphasized here.

The field situation in Oregon: 1964

1965 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Joe E. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Field Situation ◽  
History Of

In a recent paper Melville Jacobs outlined briefly the history of linguistic research in connection with indigenous languages of Oregon. In this paper I will not repeat what has already been said, but rather attempt to describe the field situation in Oregon at the present time as accurately and completely as possible.In May 1963 I began a survey of the indigenous languages still spoken in Oregon and the data presented below were derived from this survey. The purpose of the study was to determine the number of possible informants still using each of the native languages and the level of competence of each speaker in so far as this could be determined without actually doing linguistic field-work at the time. This information was a necessary prerequisite to the organization of a programme of research designed to salvage as much of the remaining languages in the area as possible.

Portuguese and Other European Missionaries in Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 363-392
Author(s):  
Joseph Abraham Levi
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Summary This study looks at some of the works produced by Catholic missionaries in Africa from the pre-dawn of the Modern Era (Fall of Constantinople, 1453), in particular the Fall of Ceuta (1415), to the Berlin Conference (1884–1885). Particular emphasis will be placed on the linguistic production of a few Franciscan, Augustinian, Capuchin, Dominican, and/or Jesuit clerics, working under the aegis of the Portuguese Crown, who – with the invaluable help of native assistants, usually members of the clergy or closely affiliated with the Church – compiled the first grammars, word lists, glossaries, and dictionaries of the indigenous languages with which they worked and interacted on a daily basis. Their endeavour, though meritorious and not always free from preconceived ideas of the ‘other’, paved the way for future studies in the field.

scholarly journals Two approaches to reversing language shift and the Soviet publication program for indigenous minorities

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Vakhtin
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Language Endangerment ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Publication Program ◽  
Publishing Policy ◽  
Indigenous Minorities

AbstractThe present paper discusses the interplay between the Soviet state policy towards indigenous languages of "Northern Minorities" and the attitudes of the indigenous communities to their languages and to language endangerment. The author uses statistics on the Soviet state program of publishing books (primarily school books) in indigenous languages that was launched in the late 1920s and underwent considerable changes in the course of the decades to follow. It is argued that the publishing policy for all languages of indigenous minorities of the Far North followed the same consistent pattern that included several phases: "a glorious beginning" in the 1930s interrupted by the war, then a strong continuation in the 1950s, then a drop in the 1960-70s, and a resurrection in the 1980s, interrupted by the economic crisis of the early 1990s. The most interesting and the least clear period is the two and a half decades between mid-1950s and late 1970s where changes of the state policy may be connected with changes in community attitudes towards their native languages. A successful policy of language preservation and revitalization is possible only if it is supported simultaneously by the state and the indigenous community.

scholarly journals Globalization as a Factor for Language Endangerment: Nigerian Indigenous Languages in Focus

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 521-527
Author(s):  
Sale Maikanti ◽  
Austin Chukwu ◽  
Moses Gideon Odibah ◽  
Moses Valentina Ogu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Language ◽  
World View ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Language Endangerment ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Major Factors

Globalization can be viewed from economic, cultural and socio-political perspectives including information and communication technology (ICT). In view of this, it is seen as the increasing empowerment of western cultural values including language, philosophy and world view. In many African countries Nigeria inclusive, English language which is the language of colonization is gradually becoming a global language due to its influence and subsequent adoption as the official language by many African nations which are largely multi-cultural and multilingual under the British colony. This trend has not only relegated the status of Nigerian Indigenous languages to the background but has also threatened their existence in Nigeria which accommodates over 500 native languages. If this trend is left unchecked, the ill-wind of globalization will gradually sweep the native languages including the so-called major ones (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) out of existence particularly in Nigeria. This paper discusses globalization as one of the major factors for language endangerment with respect to Nigeria as a nation, with a view to proffering possible solutions capable of sustaining and empowering the nation’s socio-cultural and economic stability.

scholarly journals About the Need of Studying Subjects with Ethnocultural Component in Yugra

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Natalia Vitalevna Tkachuk
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
National Languages

The author has studied the sociolinguistic experience of conducting regional studies among the titular ethnic groups of Ugra. The purpose of the article is to to find out the need to study subjects with ethno-cultural content in Ugra schools by using the questionnaire survey among the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Kondinsky district. The subject of the study is the indigenous ethnic groups of Ugra – Khanty, Mansi, Nenets. Research methods. The theoretical and methodological foundations of ethno-cultural education are studied. The work used sociological data obtained by questionnaire collection of material. 684 questionnaires were systematized on the basis of the software for processing and analyzing sociological information «Vortex». The article emphasizes the importance of preserving, supporting and using the native languages of the titular peoples of Ugra. As a result of the study, a picture describing the vitality of the indigenous languages of the study area was obtained, and the need for educational subjects with an ethno-cultural component was established. The problem of preserving native languages is acute. In the teaching the subjects with the ethno-cultural component, the motivation and ethnic self-consciousness of the participants themselves (representatives of indigenous small-numbered peoples) are important, who, by their own will, can positively influence the socio-cultural processes of ethnic communities, the linguistic stability and prospects of national languages.

CRAFTING IDENTITY: ACQUISITION, PRODUCTION, USE, AND RECYCLING OF SOAPSTONE DURING THE MISSION PERIOD IN ALTA CALIFORNIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Alta California ◽  
Mission Period ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Cooking Wares ◽  
And Function

This article investigates the daily practices and social processes of indigenous identity negotiation in the Santa Barbara Channel region through an analysis of soapstone ollas, bowls, andcomales. After assessing the source of the raw material and using a typological classification based upon form and function, I discuss the ways in which soapstone cooking wares were used diachronically and across the colonial landscape. These finds show a reorganization of the soapstone industry inside the mission space: soapstone was acquired from new sources, an emphasis was placed on the production of bowls and comales, and more soapstone vessels show evidence of remodification. However, the continued use of traditional soapstone ollas in historically occupied Chumash villages outside the mission indicates persistent practices that linked indigenous peoples to a deep ancestral past. I argue that these changes and continuities illuminate a range of identities that existed between the cultural spaces previously described as “native” and “Spanish.” This study illustrates that indigenous peoples negotiated, redeployed, and expressed their identities in new ways that allowed them to adapt and persist under colonialism.

Seven hundred million to one: Personal action in reversing language shift

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 267-284
Author(s):  
Richard L. Dauenhauer
Keyword(s):  
Alaska Native ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Personal Action ◽  
Circumpolar North ◽  
Language Survival ◽  
Alaska Native Languages

AbstractThe paper considers what influence a single person can have on language survival and transmission of knowledge, comparing and contrasting the situation of large languages such as Putonghua (traditionally called Mandarin Chinese, with 700 million speakers) and small languages such as Eyak with as few speakers as one. It examines the delights and dilemmas of such work, the practical results (such as texts and documents) and the spiritual rewards (mostly satisfaction), drawing examples from our own work of the last 35 years with Tlingit, and from the work of colleagues, especially Michael Krauss, in the context of a volume celebrating his 70th birthday and 45 years of work on behalf of Alaska Native languages and endangered indigenous languages around the world, especially in the circumpolar north. The paper is by design an informal and non-technical address to the general reader, especially members of communities whose indigenous languages are endangered.

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