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Guillem Belmar Viernes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a significant diaspora of Mixtec people residing along California's Central Coast, mostly working in the agricultural sector. The new realities in the diaspora have brought Mixtec varieties in contact in new contexts where they co-exist with other Mexican Indigenous languages, as well as with Spanish and English. We urgently need more…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indian Culture, Immigrants, American Indians
Simon L. Peters – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Increasingly, speakers of minoritized languages around the world are becoming uprooted due to economic pressures, political forces, and environmental destabilization. As communities leave their traditional homelands, they often experience accelerated language shift. Although youth are in a critical position to further transmit their languages to…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indian Culture, Language Maintenance, Immigrants
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Skilton, Amalia – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Ticuna (ISO: tca) is a language isolate spoken in the northwestern Amazon Basin (Brazil, Colombia, Peru). Ticuna has more speakers than almost all other Indigenous Amazonian languages and -- unlike most languages of the area -- is still learned by children. Yet academic linguists have given it relatively little research attention. Therefore, to…
Descriptors: Language Research, American Indian Languages, Archives, Ethics
Moran-Lanier, Miguel C. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation examines individual, constricted agency in a multilingual environment within the context of a language discussion group and the form of social capital possessed by their Mexican Indigenous diasporic community living on the California Central Coast. The research is based on participant-observation ethnographic work with a language…
Descriptors: Spanish, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Literacy
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Tiwana, Ravneet Kaur – Online Submission, 2013
Punjabi heritage language maintenance and development are rooted in community, identity, and, for many, faith. Various opportunities are available for maintaining linguistic ties to Punjabi (also spelled Panjabi) and for developing proficiency in the Punjabi language. They range from community-based to federally funded programs, available in…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Maintenance, Heritage Education, Religious Cultural Groups
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Lavadenz, Magaly – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2008
The history, culture and practices of Central America are inadequately addressed in teacher preparation and professional development across the United States, and especially in California based on the author's analysis of teacher preparation. Information about the histories, cultures and practices add to the linguistic and pedagogic knowledge-base…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Bilingual Teachers, Youth