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Flashcards like these help introduce new Chickasaw words.
All over the world, languages are dying. According to some studies, more than half of the world’s estimated 6,000 languages will become extinct during our lifetime. But indigenous communities and linguists aren’t giving up without a fight.
Among those leading the charge is Colleen Fitzgerald, professor of linguistics and TESOL and one of the foremost researchers on endangered Native American languages. Among her NSF-funded projects is a series of workshops that help Native Americans in Oklahoma organize language classes, translate stories, create dictionaries, and more.
“There’s a synergistic relationship between training and teaching,” Dr. Fitzgerald explains. “It’s not only about training community members, but training students to do the research ethically and responsibly.”
She is also collaborating with Joshua Hinson, director of the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program, to document and analyze Chickasaw verbs. Chickasaw, a Muskogean language originally used in the Southeastern United States, is now spoken in south-central Oklahoma by only 80 people, at most.
Over the summer, UTA hosted the 2014 Institute on Collaborative Language Research, which focused on Native American languages. The event offered students, practicing linguists, and indigenous community members the chance to develop and refine skills and approaches to language documentation and revitalization.
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