Post by lored on Mar 14, 2013 16:33:05 GMT -5
I didn't know where to put this, but I thought it was kind of cool; this a Native American language site that has beautiful e-cards with greetings in different Native American languages.
ourmothertongues.org/postcard.aspx
Send an ePostcard Audio Greeting
Engage your friends and family and raise awareness about endangered languages by sending an e-postcard with a Native language audio greeting.
The site has wonderful videos about Native Americans attempting to preserve their native languages. I really enjoyed just browsing among the videos and blog postings.
This is a blog posting:
"Revival of nearly extinct Yurok language is a success story
February 6, 2013 - 11:00 PM | by Our Mother Tongues
The number of native speakers fell to six at one point. But tribal leaders would not let Yurok die, and some Northern California schools are now teaching it.
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times
EUREKA, Calif. — Carole Lewis throws herself into her work as if something big is at stake.
"Pa'-ah," she tells her Eureka High School class, gesturing at a bottle of water. She whips around and doodles a crooked little fish on the blackboard, hinting at the dip she's prepared with "ney-puy" — salmon, key to the diet of California's largest Native American tribe.
For thousands of years before Western settlers arrived, the Yurok thrived in dozens of villages along the Klamath River. By the 1990s, however, academics had predicted their language soon would be extinct. As elders passed away, the number of native speakers dropped to six.
But tribal leaders would not let the language die.
Last fall, Eureka High became the fifth and largest school in Northern California to launch a Yurok-language program, marking the latest victory in a Native American language revitalization program widely lauded as the most successful in the state.
At last count, there were more than 300 basic Yurok speakers, 60 with intermediate skills, 37 who are advanced and 17 who are considered conversationally fluent.
If all goes as planned, Lewis' 20 students will move on to a second year of study, satisfying the world language requirement for admission to University of California and Cal State schools."
Fascinating site!
LoreD
ourmothertongues.org/postcard.aspx
Send an ePostcard Audio Greeting
Engage your friends and family and raise awareness about endangered languages by sending an e-postcard with a Native language audio greeting.
The site has wonderful videos about Native Americans attempting to preserve their native languages. I really enjoyed just browsing among the videos and blog postings.
This is a blog posting:
"Revival of nearly extinct Yurok language is a success story
February 6, 2013 - 11:00 PM | by Our Mother Tongues
The number of native speakers fell to six at one point. But tribal leaders would not let Yurok die, and some Northern California schools are now teaching it.
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times
EUREKA, Calif. — Carole Lewis throws herself into her work as if something big is at stake.
"Pa'-ah," she tells her Eureka High School class, gesturing at a bottle of water. She whips around and doodles a crooked little fish on the blackboard, hinting at the dip she's prepared with "ney-puy" — salmon, key to the diet of California's largest Native American tribe.
For thousands of years before Western settlers arrived, the Yurok thrived in dozens of villages along the Klamath River. By the 1990s, however, academics had predicted their language soon would be extinct. As elders passed away, the number of native speakers dropped to six.
But tribal leaders would not let the language die.
Last fall, Eureka High became the fifth and largest school in Northern California to launch a Yurok-language program, marking the latest victory in a Native American language revitalization program widely lauded as the most successful in the state.
At last count, there were more than 300 basic Yurok speakers, 60 with intermediate skills, 37 who are advanced and 17 who are considered conversationally fluent.
If all goes as planned, Lewis' 20 students will move on to a second year of study, satisfying the world language requirement for admission to University of California and Cal State schools."
Fascinating site!
LoreD