After generations of exploitation, Indigenous people often respond negatively to the idea that
their languages are data ready for the taking. By treating Indigenous knowledge as a …

Should an alphabetic orthography for a tone language include tone marks? Opinion and
practice are divided along three lines: zeromarking, phonemic marking and various reduced …

Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes
even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader …

Writing systems have attracted relatively little attention from sociolinguists, in spite of obvious
connections with subjects of great sociolinguistic interest, such as ethnicity and identity. In …

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research
methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic …

In 2002 the Russian parliament passed a law requiring all official languages within the
Russian Federation to use the Cyrillic alphabet. The legislation caused great controversy …

Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new
orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English …

In this article, I explore the relevance of integrationism as a prism through which one can
examine the construction of languages within colonial linguistics (CLs). I examine the …

The success of programs that are focused on revitalizing an endangered language depends
on careful implementation. This paper examines four common mistakes that are made when …

This paper discusses three processes relating to the social meaning of scripts and
orthographies, all of which are potentially mediated by the role of script-as-image. One of …