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Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages?

Policy and Practice on Four Continents

N Hornberger editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '08

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This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.

' The book is a must for anyone interested in the revival of indigenous languages.' Birgit Brock-Utne, Compare

' highly interesting and well integrated chapters delighted me with qualitative details and gems of wisdom ' Carol Benson, Language Policy

ISBN: 9781349284665

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182 pages

1st ed. 2008