LINGUIS 155AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cherokee Syllabary, Iroquoian Languages, John C. Malone
12 Jan 2017
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Native american tongue facing extinction, arapaho tribe teaches the young. 2006 - wyo, at 69, alvena oldman remembers how teachers at boarding on. Wind river reservation would strike students with rulers if they dared to talk in their native arapaho language. Indigenous people (indig - there before anyone else:like new zealand-boats) Why care about language shift: typical objections: Who needs language anyways, we should all speak same language. It"s not like someone who stops speaking certain language stops speaking completely. Some languages (especially in california) have ejectives. Lexicons can be portrayed as symbolic embodiments of intimate, lived relative . Miamis not very great, not over 600 words, but all they needed in savage life. No more than 100 word in common convo, imperfect. Refers to single word made up of multiple morphemes. Kaipiallrulliniuk (one word in eskimo, 8 words in english) Objection to exotic: possible put all words together to mean a sentence.
