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- “Breath of Life-Silent No More”
California Indian Language
Restration Workshop
- June 5-10, 2004
- Hosted by the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Department of Linguistics
- University of California at Berkeley
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- The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
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The “Breath of Life – Silent no more” California Indian Language Restoration Workshop was held on June 5-10, 2004 at the University of California at Berkeley. The participants were all California Indians whose languages have no speakers (or in some cases, just one or two very elderly speakers). The goal was for the participants to access, understand, and do research on materials on their languages, and to use them for language revitalization. The participants engaged in language projects based on those materials, and had a public presentation at the end of the week-long workshop.
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The Breath of Life was immediately followed by the 11th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference, which was held June 11-13 . Presentation of Breath of Life participants’ projects will take place Friday morning June 11, serving as the first session of SILC. Many of the Breath of Life participants stayed for the whole conference.
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The aims of the Breath of Life workshop were:
- (a) to guide participants to the university resources available for their use;
- (b) to help the participants identify and locate the published and unpublished notes and audiotapes made by linguists and anthropologists on their languages;
- (c) for participants to learn the fundamentals of linguistic analysis, including how to read phonetic writing;
- (d) for participants to learn ways they can use linguistic materials and publications to create materials for language restoration.
- We had about 40 participants, about half returning and half new. The workshop was a great success.
- If you have any comments on this workshop, please contact to Prof. Leanne Hinton at hinton@berkeley.edu.
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