| 词条 | Breath of Life (language restoration workshops) |
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In Breath of Life workshops, linguists help members of Native American communities access and use archival material documenting their ancestral languages in the interest of language restoration and revitalization. This is particularly important for the many communities that no longer have fluent speakers of their languages. They are held biannually in June at U.C. Berkeley and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman in even-numbered years, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC in odd-numbered years. The project was initiated in the early 1990s at the University of California Berkeley, in part by linguist Leanne Hinton.[1] Norman, OklahomaThe Oklahoma Breath of Life, Silent No More Workshop is held at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. It has been funded by grants from the "Documenting Endangered Languages" (DEL) program, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.[2][3] The purpose of the workshop is to teach participants how to:
Washington, D.C.The Breath of Life Institute has been supported by "Documenting Endangered Languages" (DEL), a joint program of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Partners include the National Museum of Natural History, The National Museum of the American Indian, the Library of Congress, The Endangered Language Fund, and Yale University. References1. ^{{cite news|last=Gugliotta|first=Guy|title=Smithsonian archives preserve lost and dying languages|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/smithsonian-archives-preserve-lost-and-dying-languages/2014/01/17/2a2c3218-74a1-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html|accessdate=24 January 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|date=20 January 2014}} 2. ^{{Cite web |url=http://nal.snomnh.ou.edu/okbol# |title=Museum description of workshop |access-date=2013-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014180354/http://nal.snomnh.ou.edu/okbol# |archive-date=2013-10-14 |dead-url=yes |df= }} 3. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/documenting-endangered-languages | title=Documenting Endangered Languages | publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation | accessdate=17 March 2014}} 3 : Language revival|Indigenous languages of the Americas|Native American studies |
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