Directory of Languages Resources

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Subcategories

• Algic Languages
• Hokan Languages
• Intertribal Sign Systems
• Iroquoian Languages
• Muskogean Languages
• Na-Dene Languages
• Penutian Languages
• Siouan Languages
• Uto-Aztecan Languages

Resources in This Category

• Endangered Languages: Revival and Revitalization

  http://www.native-languages.org/revive.htm
  Essay on the struggle to save dying American Indian languages.

• First People's Language Resources

  http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/language.html
  Extensive list of sites regarding teaching, study and preservation of indigenous North American tongues.

• Indian Languages of Western Oregon

  http://www.lanecc.edu/library/don/orelang.htm
  Fact sheets on the geographic regions for several Athapaskan, Penutian, Salishan, and Hokan languages

• Indigenous People's Languages

  http://www.indians.org/welker/americas.htm
  Essay and links on American Indian and other indigenous languages.

• Intertribal Wordpath Society

  http://www.angelfire.com/ok4/wordpath/index.html
  Non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the teaching, awareness, use, and status of Oklahoma Indian languages. Board roster, announcements, and links.

• Language Geek

  http://www.languagegeek.com/
  Fonts, keyboard mapping, and other orthographical aids for Native North American languages.

• Native American Culture: Languages

  http://www.ewebtribe.com/NACulture/lang.htm
  List of links to sources of information about many American Indian languages.

• Native Languages

  http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/natlang.html
  Frequently updated list of American Indian linguistic resources.

• Native Village Language Library

  http://www.nativevillage.org/Libraries/Language%20Libraries.htm
  American Indian language resources.

• Quebec History Encyclopedia: Linguistic Families of the Native Languages

  http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/LinguisticfamiliesofIndians.htm
  Article on Canadian Indian language families as originally published in 1907 by the Bureau of American Ethnology as part of its Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico.

• Salish and Neighboring Languages

  http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/icsnl.htm
  Conference reports on Salish and other languages. Some links given.

• Teaching Indigenous Languages

  http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html
  Articles on teaching, revitalizing, and stabilizing indigenous languages, indigenous language policy, dropout prevention and teacher training.

• The Peopling of the Americas

  http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/greenberg.htm
  Article on the synthesis of linguistic and genetic data with particular reference to Joseph Greenberg's "Amerind" theory.

Related Categories

• Home > Science > Social Sciences > Linguistics > Languages > Natural > Languages of the Americas
• Home > Society > Ethnicity > The Americas > Indigenous > Native Americans > Issues and Activism
• Home > Society > Issues > Language > Preservation

 

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