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Today I’ve been pointed to The Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA)<\/a>:
\n“The Center hopes to help indigenous communities realize their goals of language recovery and widening the contexts of language use by providing technical education in fields related to language, with an emphasis on language maintenance, documentation, and applications to social institutions that depend on language and communication among all citizens.”
\nThey have some excellent ideas about training and working with speakers of Indigenous languages.<\/p>\n


\nOne thing is publishing in languages which the speakers can read – their publications on the languages<\/a> are mostly in Spanish as the language of wider communication in much of Latin America (anyone for publishing their grammar in Tok Pisin?)
\nThere’s an excellent English poster presentation<\/a> on the Center’s work training speakers of Indigenous languages in research degrees in universities. It’s going to appear in a newish electronic journal Linguistic Discovery<\/em><\/a> (which is for “description and analysis of primary linguistic data” – hey! just what we’ve been looking for). Back to CILLA. An earlier written version was published as:
\nWoodbury, Anthony C. and Nora C. England. 2004. Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US University. In Peter Austin ed. Language Documentation and Description<\/em> Volume 2.<\/a> Proceedings of the 2004 Hans Rausing Endangered Language Program Workshop “Training and Capacity Building for Endangered Languages Communities.” Hans Rausing Endangered Language Programme<\/a>, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
\nHere are some of the important points they make about training indigenous language speakers in research degrees:<\/p>\n