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Tree, Erich Fox – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This article examines sign languages that belong to a complex of indigenous sign languages in Mesoamerica that K'iche'an Maya people of Guatemala refer to collectively as Meemul Tziij. It explains the relationship between the Meemul Tziij variety of the Yukatek Maya village of Chican (state of Yucatan, Mexico) and the hitherto undescribed Meemul…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Maya (People), Sign Language, Foreign Countries
Campbell, Lyle – 1997
The book offers a general survey of the history of Native American languages. Chapters address these topics: Native American pidgins and trade languages; the history of American Indian linguistics and classification of languages; the origin of Native American languages; languages of North America; languages of Central America; languages of South…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Odumuh, Adama Emmanuel – 1994
A discussion of the situation of Idoma, a Nigerian language, begins with different accounts of the language's origin, referring to both local legend and cosmology. It then proceeds to a review of modern linguists' efforts, since 1927, to classify the language. A statistical overview contains information on the number of speakers of Idoma as a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Alphabets, Community Services, Diachronic Linguistics