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Lidia Federica Mazzitelli – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
This paper provides an introduction to Lakurumau, a previously undescribed and undocumented Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. The first part of the paper is a guide to the Lakurumau documentation corpus, deposited in the ELAR archive. The participants and the content of the deposit, the technology used for recording, and the ethical protocols…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian Languages, Native Language, Language Classification
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Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker; Noella Handley; Bradley Rentz; Jim Yoshioka; Victoria Anderson; Bradley McDonnell – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
The "International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation" series, or ICLDC, has, since its inception in 2009, become the flagship conference for the field of language documentation. Every two years, conference attendees gather at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa to share their experiences working on diverse topics…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation, Conferences (Gatherings)
Hossain, Tania; Pratt, Cornelius B. – New Horizons in Education, 2008
Background: An important issue in the discourse on language rights is the degree to which they influence the development and implementation of language policies or perpetuate inequalities in many language situations. Skutnabb-Kangas (1996, 2002a, 2002b) and May (2000), for example, have argued that language rights offer a reasonable framework for…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Dominance, Language Planning, Equal Education