The language of Sephardic Jews for centuries, Judeo-Spanish is no longer transmitted to younger generations. After decades of discouraging the use of languages other than Hebrew, the Israeli government has changed its stance toward minority Jewish languages and now actively enco…
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This thesis seeks to provide a systematic study of question formation in Mehri, a Modern South Arabian Language for which many syntactic facts remain largely undescribed. The thesis has three main goals: First, a presentation of a sketch grammar of the Ben Zabinut dialect of Meh…
The historical diminishment and contemporary revitalization of indigenous languages are underwritten by universalizing discourses set into motion three thousand years ago in the Antiquarian Mediterranean. Tribes, which are immanent polities with inherent rights to govern and pro…
By utilizing Indigenous, decolonial and most importantly Na:tinixwe methodologies, this dissertation documents the ongoing settler colonial history of schooling in Na:tinixwe, charts a community vision for the education of Na:tinixwe youth, and lastly documents ongoing praxis of…
"Wherever there is a situation of domination and subordination between any two groups, whatever their color or religion, this will be reflected in the language relationship: one language dominating the other." —wa Thiong’o (2011, p. 244)
Use of the Occitan language in southern France has steadily declined over the past eight centuries, as part of a societal shift toward French. This shift has culminated in the current endangerment of Occitan (UNESCO, Ethnologue). Native speakers are aging rapidly, and according …