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First language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia First language (native language, mother tongue, or vernacular) is the language a person learns first. Good skills in native language are essential for further learning, as native language is thought to be a base of thinking. In his case, similar to those of children who learn the language of the family which is different from the language of the environment (the 'official' language), it is questionable to say which language is his 'mother tongue'. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_language   (376 words)

Archived: Early Childhood Update: Summer/Fall 1997 - Native Language Literacy: Is it Just Another Option? The optimal environment for supporting native language literacy development in young language minority children necessitates that the teacher or caregiver use the child?s language, thus ensuring a match between school and home. A language rich environment in a school or caregiving setting can involve many of the same methods and materials through which English language literacy is encouraged, only the non-English language becomes the medium. Encouraging native language literacy development in conjunction with the use of culturally relevant practices based on a sound understanding of the home culture help give language minority children an equitable and appropriate learning environment for meeting President Clinton?s challenge. www.ed.gov /offices/OERI/ECI/newsletters/97fall/early10.html   (1338 words)

NATIONAL PROFILES OF LANGUAGES IN ýEDUCATION: ISRAEL : LANGUAGE POLICY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The national language of the Jews is modern Hebrew, but only 60% of the Jewish population were born in Israel, so that for about half of the Jewish population Hebrew is not the mother tongue. French, recognized as important because of cultural, political and economic ties and as the community language of a sizable body of immigrants, is taught optionally (or as a required subject in place of Arabic) from 5th to 12th grade. Languages in which there exist programs are Yiddish (also used as language of instruction and taught in the independent ultra-orthodox schools), Ladino, Spanish and German; the policy seeks to add others like Japanese. www.biu.ac.il /hu/lprc/lprcprof.htm   (2173 words)

Alaska Native Language Center Established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages. The Haida Dictionary by John Enrico is as complete a record as is possible of the language. It is a master reference from which academic linguists may further examine the relationship of Haida to other language families, and educators may develop teaching materials for classrooms at every level. www.uaf.edu /anlc   (243 words)

Maintaining and Renewing Indigenous Languages Language nests preserve the Maori language that was dying out, provide a valuable service to working parents, and, most importantly, strengthen the cultural values associated with the traditional Maori extended family (Fleras, 1989). Literacy is an admirable goal: it involves local speakers in developing written materials; it documents for future generations the language and the knowledge the language conveys; it provides the community with a sense of pride in their people and their language; and, at the same time, it gives the student a powerful language learning tool. Native language and cultural revival will not be accomplished by tribal officials and school administrators going to Washington to testify for various bills. jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/Main.html   (8019 words)

Canku Ota - October 18, 2003 - Blending Native Language, Education & Culture TUBA CITY — With linguistic statistical studies proving Native American languages are in danger of becoming extinct and used less on a daily conversation basis, many tribes are starting to take drastic steps to ensure that their culture and language does not die. The focus of this Hopi language project will be to provide an educational support from the TC district for a teen population to be fluent in everyday Hopi conversation. The idea was to help heighten the awareness and importance of maintaining and supporting original language and allowing the student population to hear languages from countries all around the world as well as their own local tribal languages. www.turtletrack.org /Issues03/Co10182003/CO_10182003_Blending_Language.htm   (972 words)

[No title] Language carries culture, and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we perceive ourselves and our place in the world. Language is thus inseparable from ourselves as a community of human beings with a specific form and character, a specific history, a specific relationship to the world. The shadows and language of tribal poets and novelists could be the new ghost dance literature, the shadow literature of liberation that enlivens tribal survivance. www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Language.html   (1417 words)

Native-language instruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Native-language instruction is the practice of teaching schoolchildren in their native language instead of in the official language of their country of residence. Foreigners on a temporary visit abroad often prefer this, believing that it will keep their children from falling behind their peers at home as they struggle to master a foreign tongue and culture. The phrase teaching children in their native language is clear and unambiguous, and there is no controversy about its wording. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Native-language_instruction   (355 words)

Turkish Language and the Native Americans However as the language develops in time, the vowels in a word may change into other vowels such as "a" into "e", "o", "u" while consonants of the words, in general, would tend to maintain their identity in the word through time. Tarma Quechua is the native language of the province of Tarma which is north of the capital city Lima of Peru. Their wide spread use in native languages of Americas as well as in Altaic languages in Asia is a testimony to this observation. ireland.iol.ie /~afifi/Articles/turkic.htm   (4848 words)

American Indian Language Resources Alaska Native Language Center Established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages. Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas The Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas. Native American Languages Act of 2001 Latest Major Action: 1/22/2001 Referred to Senate committee Title: A bill to amend the Native American Languages Act to provide for the support of Native American Language Survival Schools, and for other purposes. www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp /~krkvls/lang.html   (1693 words)

Native Languages: Links and resources for study Native Language Act of 1992, 42 USC 2291(b) -- basic legislation providing for funding to preserve Indian languages. SIL bibliography of Native Language publications -- non-tchnical and technical are on same page, separated by a top of the pag jump anchor. Native Language Learning Tapes -- Generally both tapes and workbooks of some sort are included in the Audio-visual learning aids evaluated here. www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/language.html   (1547 words)

Láadan, the Constructed Language in Native Tongue, by Suzette Haden Elgin A conlang is a language put together with the intention that it should have enough grammar and vocabulary to make it possible for someone to use it to communicate, just as they would use an existing natural language. First, much of the plot for Native Tongue revolved around a group of women, all linguists, engaged in constructing a language specifically designed to express the perceptions of human women; because I'm a linguist and linguistics is the science in my novels, I felt obligated actually to construct the language before I wrote about it. Nevertheless, there's a theory that women are distressed because existing human languages are inadequate to express their perceptions; if that theory has any validity, it would seem that women would welcome a language that better served that purpose. www.sfwa.org /members/elgin/Laadan.html   (1044 words)

Native American Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Linguistic scholars from many cultures have also become concerned about a worldwide crisis in language attrition as virtually half of spoken languages are expected to become "moribund" or to become extinct within a generation (Crawford, 1995). The Native American Languages Act of 1990 is the first federal step in United States history to help protect against the Native American languages and cultural erosion that has been taking place since European contact. After studying the status of their Mother language in the community, they were alarmed to find that most fluent speakers were over thirty five, and the younger the child the less likely theu were to speak Keres (Benjamin, Pecos and Romero, 1996). si.unm.edu /bern_2003/toni/toni_tl/tl.htm   (1122 words)

Overview of the JNI Programmers use the JNI to write native methods to handle those situations when an application cannot be written entirely in the Java programming language. Native methods may represent legacy applications or they may be written explicitly to solve a problem that is best handled outside of the Java programming environment. A native method can even update Java objects that it created or that were passed to it, and these updated objects are available to the Java application. java.sun.com /docs/books/tutorial/native1.1/concepts   (587 words)

Tribal College Journal According to Michael Krauss of the Alaska Native Language Center, there are 210 different indigenous languages still spoken by American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States and Canada out of the over 300 spoken before the arrival of Columbus. The indigenous language revitalization resources presented here concentrate on organizations, web sites, and more recent publications that are likely to be readily available on the internet, in bookstores and university libraries, or by interlibrary loan. Proceedings of the 1997 Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium. www.tribalcollegejournal.org /themag/backissues/spring2000/spring2000resources.html   (1787 words)

NPR : Saving Alaska's Languages The Alaska Native Language Center, part of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, promotes the use of the state's native languages and is trying to preserve as much material as possible about the 20 known languages. Sikorski's native tongue is Gwich'in, a language used by Indians living in northeastern Alaska. At the moment, all of the 20 known Alaska languages are still being spoken. www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/mar/alaska   (362 words)

(1/22/2000) Canadian Project to Save Dying Native Language Native language on the verge of extinction in northern Alberta may be brought back to life thanks partly to a University of Alberta-based linguistics project, as researchers study the Chipewyan (or Dene Suline) language in the Cold Lake First Nations community. Teaching it from scratch is a challenge since the language is enormously complex. University-level courses in the language will also be initiated at the U of A. "Aboriginal peoples are very concerned about their languages disappearing off off the face the earth, and well they should be," says Dr. Heather Blair, who will be responsible for designing curriculum for Cold Lake schools. www.monitor.net /monitor/0001a/chipewyan.html   (695 words)

Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology. Actually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them. These are linguistically diverse languages deserving of individual attention, and it is very difficult to make accurate generalizations about them as a group. www.native-languages.org   (1052 words)

The "native" .NET language? In the comments on my post on language choice, Patrick asked “isn't C# the language that's most 'native' to the.NET environment?” Christopher then follows up with a related question as to whether developers should use functions in the System namespace instead of ones in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace because the former might be faster. The only differences you're going to see between the IL the two languages generate is when one language does something more for you than the other language does (or we have a bug, in which case, let us know about it). So, in the end, there is no “native” language on the CLR and performance is something you're going to have to think about no matter what language you choose. www.panopticoncentral.net /archive/2004/05/31/1100.aspx   (2808 words)

Native American Culture - Languages This language center was established in 1972 by state legislation as a center for documentation and cultivation of the state's 20 Native languages. The Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee is succeeding at preserving the "NUMU TEKWAPUHA" and restoring it as a living language. The Manitoba Metis Federation is in partnership with the Department of Canadian Heritage - Aboriginal Languages initiative and the Metis National Council in a planned three year language project. www.ewebtribe.com /NACulture/lang.htm   (1374 words)

Index of Native American Language Resources on the Internet Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the West Native American Language Center Native American Studies Dept., UC Davis www.hanksville.org /NAresources/indices/NAlanguage.html   (329 words)

Native American Languages Native American Association of Germany - It sounds weird, but these guys actually have a great list of Native American language links from many languages not found here. Cree is a Native language spoken in central and eastern Canada and is one of the most widely used North American Native languages. Quechua is spoken in Peru, Eduador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. www.plumsite.com /palace/native.htm   (312 words)

native-lang: Native Language Confederation Forming a language project and joining the Native Language Confederation is a simple, three-step process. All NLC projects working on localizations (some may only be providing support), regardless of their level, are listed both on the l10n project languages page and on the NLC projects page. In some cases the ISO code for a language is not known or familiar to the people speaking the language, to the point where such a code would hinder the ability of the new project to attract volunteers (i.e., lack of identification, knowledge and advertising of the project). native-lang.openoffice.org   (1379 words)

Yamada Language Center: Inuit/Inuktitut WWW Guide Alaska Native Language Center - Foremost center for research, documentation and cultivation of the Alaska's 20 native languages. Native Languages in the Yukon - While not a link to an Inuit site, this site is about other native languages in the arctic region This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/inuit.html   (176 words)

How to convert/change Windows XP in your native language? You can convert your existing Windows XP in your native language, without any new installation or any other tool, and surprise your friends. That was background now coming to main point how to make Window XP in your native language. Click on Language tab and check the option named "Install files for complex script and right to left languages". www.freewebs.com /ankitasdeveloper/articles/AnkitXPHindi1.htm   (573 words)

Inuktitut (Inuit/Eskimo Language) Inuktitut is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken across the entire northern span of North America, forming what is called a linguistic chain--each dialect is easily mutually intelligible with its neighbors, but not with dialects further away. For practical purposes, linguistic chains are treated as a single language, and so the Alaskan dialects Inupiaq and Inupiatun, the Eastern and Western Inuktitut languages of Canada, and Greenlandic are all classified together. This page is still under construction--only Cherokee and the Algonquian languages are currently fully completed. www.native-languages.org /inuktitut.htm   (205 words)

Profiles of Native Language Education Programs Education Programs To provide the language in written form and in a form appropriate for teaching. The instructor is fluent in the Shawnee language and has permission from the tribe to teach the language. The Shawnee Language Preservation Project has received help from a University of Kansas linguist, tribal government leaders, fluent native speakers, and volunteers. www.sedl.org /pubs/lc05/shawnee.html   (209 words)

Native American Gospel Resources More information is available from the Census Bureau as detailed in their list of publications on American Indian and Alaska Native populations. The Flags of the Native Peoples of the United States is an interesting site featuring flags and their stories for 79 tribal nations, with links to each tribe's homepage. The Native American Fellowship of Assemblies of God will host their 18th Annual Convention June 8-13, 2003 at Glacier Bible Camp in North Carolina. www.ethnicharvest.org /peoples/nativeamer.htm   (1305 words)

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