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Endangered Language Isolates: Endangered Totonacan Languages, Haida Language, Huave Language, Yuracar Language, Misantla Totonac

Endangered Language Isolates: Endangered Totonacan Languages, Haida Language, Huave Language, Yuracar Language, Misantla Totonac


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Endangered Totonacan Languages, Haida Language, Huave Language, Yuracar Language, Misantla Totonac, Taiap Language, Itonama Language, Kutenai Language. Excerpt: The Haida language () is the language of the Haida people. It contains eight vowels and well over 30 consonants. Linguist Edward Sapir classified Haida as one of the Na-Den languages in 1915, a position later supported by others, notably Pinnow, Greenberg, Enrico, Ruhlen, Manaster Ramer, and Bengtson (cf. list of publications below). Today, however, many linguists regard Haida as a language isolate. A recent proposal linking Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit to the Yeniseian family of central Siberia did not find evidence for including Haida in this grouping. Whether one regards Haida's genetic affiliation as an open question or follows Sapir in classifying it as Na-Dene, Haida is doubtless one of the more intriguing languages of the Americas from a historical perspective. While approximately one hundred years ago the entire Haida population was fluent, today the Haida language is extremely endangered, with only about 45 native speakers, nearly all of whom are older adults. Although the number of native speakers has diminished along the years, according to a 2001 Canadian Census there are now about 275 speakers in British Columbia alone, and with revived interest in the language, this figure is expected to grow. Currently Haida citizens and friends in all three dialect communities are working to revitalizing the language. In Skidegate, fluent speakers gather on a daily basis to work on the southern or Skidegate dialect and have produced a large series of recordings. In Masset, a group of younger learners is working with their fluent elders to reintegrate the northern or Masset dialect into ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2592939


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158039104
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158039107
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Endangered Totonacan Languages, Haida Language, Huave Language, Yuracar Language, Misantla Totonac
  • Width: 229 mm


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