ABSTRACT
Focusing on the Americas – home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people – this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada, and Latin America and the Caribbean, offer a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of "top down" (official) and "bottom up" (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives. Authored by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, the book is organized around seven overarching themes: Policy and Politics; Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization; The Home-School-Community Interface; Local and Global Perspectives; Linguistic Human Rights; Revitalization Programs and Impacts; New Domains for Indigenous Languages
Providing a comprehensive, hemisphere-wide scholarly and practical source, this singular collection simultaneously fills a gap in the language revitalization literature and contributes to Indigenous language revitalization efforts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|41 pages
Policy and Politics
part II|41 pages
Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization
part III|39 pages
The Home-School-Community Interface
part IV|41 pages
Local and Global Perspectives
part V|45 pages
Linguistic Human Rights
part VI|41 pages
Revitalization Programs and Impacts
part VII|45 pages
New Domains for Indigenous Languages