Making a Dictionary for Community Use in Language Revitalization: The Case of Mutsun

Warner, Natasha; Butler, Lynnika; Luna-Costillas, Quirina

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“…Furthermore, while it is important to have structured data (Thieberger 2011), not all database software makes use of Unicode or allows for adequate customization (Anderson 2020). Some Indigenous language dictionary projects choose Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) created by the missionary organization SIL (e.g., the Mutsun dictionary described in Warner, Butler, andLuna-Costillas 2006 andvan Volkinburg 2007 and the Tunica dictionary described in Anderson 2020). However, there can be drawbacks to FLEx when building a dictionary from archival documentation (see Lukaniec 2022).…”

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Modern Wendat Lexicography: Using XML to Reflect the Grammar and Lexicon of an Iroquoian Language

Lukaniec,

Holmes

2023

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Building dictionaries with tools and methods emerging from Eurocentric traditions has proved problematic for Indigenous languages. We are building a dictionary for Wendat, an Iroquoian language formerly known as Huron that is being reawakened in Wendake, Québec. There are twelve manuscript dictionaries and lexicons for Wendat, created by missionaries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We are encoding the manuscripts using a standard Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) schema. However, when we came to create and encode a modern reconstructed Wendat dictionary, we were overly constrained by Eurocentric structures and assumptions inherent to TEI. Building our own custom XML schema allows us to better reflect Wendat grammar, responding to community needs and our evolving understandings of the language. This article describes the development of this schema, based on analysis of the archival documentation and related languages. Through this discussion, we will exemplify the schema we built and address the points of friction between TEI and Wendat grammatical structures. Our custom schema enables us to elegantly and economically represent exactly what our analysis of the language reveals, capturing elements of the language such as event-verb consequentiality, conjugation class, and stems, while avoiding incompatible elements and assumptions.

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Modern Wendat Lexicography: Using XML to Reflect the Grammar and Lexicon of an Iroquoian Language

Lukaniec,

Holmes

2023

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“…We make extensive use of databases, currently SIL's FieldWorks Language Explorer (SIL 2006), for the analysis of original source data for Mutsun and for producing the dictionary (see discussion in Warner et al 2006). For language teaching, we plan to use technology primarily by providing oral practice through the online distance-learning software.…”

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“…Mutsun (Southern Costanoan) was spoken near the San Juan Bautista Mission, south of San Francisco. '' 1 Although there are no living speakers, there is surprisingly extensive written documentation of Mutsun (Warner et al 2006). The Mutsun tribe now has no reservation or tribally owned land, and there is no modern town in which the Mutsuns are well known as being the original local people, or in which Mutsuns constitute a majority.…”

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Revitalization in a scattered language community: problems and methods from the perspective of Mutsun language revitalization

Warner¹,

Luna²,

Butler³

et al. 2009

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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This article addresses revitalization of a dormant language whose prospective speakers live in scattered geographical areas. In comparison to increasing the usage of an endangered language, revitalizing a dormant language (one with no living speakers) requires di¤erent methods to gain knowledge of the language. Language teaching for a dormant language with a scattered community presents di¤erent problems from other teaching situations. In this article, we discuss the types of tasks that must be accomplished for dormant-language revitalization, with particular focus on development of teaching materials. We also address the role of computer technologies, arguing that each use of technology should be evaluated for how e¤ectively it increases fluency. We discuss methods for achieving semi-fluency for the first new speakers of a dormant language, and for spreading the language through the community.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

Austin

Sallabank²

1999

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v e Sallabank, Julia (ed.) 2011. The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambri dge: C ambri dge University Press, xii + 567 s. Yeryüzündeki dillerin araştırılması ve belgelenmesi amacıyla kurulan Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) International topluluğunun yaptığı araştırmalar, günümüzde konuşulmakta olan yaklaşık 7.000 dilin varlığına işaret etmektedir. Bu dillerin bir kısmı yazı dili olarak varlığını sürdürürken, büyük çoğunluğu sadece konuşma dili olarak kullanılmakta, dolayısıyla kayıt altına alınamamaktadır. Kayıt altına alınamayan bu dillerin hemen hepsi ise görece daha baskın dillerin etkisinde, yok olma tehlikesiyle karşı karşıyadır. Öngörüler, içerisinde bulunduğumuz yüzyılın sonrasında, bu dillerin en azından yarısının konuşurunun kalmayacağı ve dolayısıyla yok olacağı yönündedir. Özellikle son elli yıl içerisinde, bu riski taşıyan "tehlikedeki diller"i ortaya çıkarma, kayıt altına alma ve hatta kurtarma çalışmaları ivme kazanmış, UNESCO başta olmak üzere, çeşitli kurum ve kuruluşlarca hazırlanan ya da desteklenen pek çok proje ve çalışma ortaya konmuştur. Bu bağlamda, Peter K. Austin ile Julia Sallabank'ın editörlüğünde hazırlanan ve Cambridge Üniversitesi tarafından yayımlanan Handbook of Endangered Languages adlı eser, tehlikedeki diller olgusu üzerine çeşitli konular kapsamında hazırlanmış pek çok yazıyı bir araya getirmektedir.

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Making a Dictionary for Community Use in Language Revitalization: The Case of Mutsun

Cited by 30 publications

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Modern Wendat Lexicography: Using XML to Reflect the Grammar and Lexicon of an Iroquoian Language

Modern Wendat Lexicography: Using XML to Reflect the Grammar and Lexicon of an Iroquoian Language

Revitalization in a scattered language community: problems and methods from the perspective of Mutsun language revitalization

The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

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