Making our language visible: Urban Indigenous migrants and the revitalization of their native languages

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dc.creatorAnuschka van ’t Hooft
dc.creatorJosé Luis González Compeán
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-30T03:40:35Z
dc.date.available2024-08-30T03:40:35Z
dc.date.copyright2024
dc.date.issued2024-08
dc.description.abstractYoung urban migrants can be valuable actors in projects that aim to document and revitalize their Indigenous languages, especially when these efforts involve new technologies. Based on data from a Huastec (Tének) language documentation project in Mexico, this article describes the digital interactions of young migrants in the documentation and revitalization of Indigenous languages. To address this issue, we briefly review the migration of Huastec speakers in the context of language shift. We then examine how digital language activism can be linked to language documentation and explore how such digital projects can contribute to language maintenance and revitalization. Finally, we present the most salient factors that drive Indigenous migrants to participate in initiatives aimed at language revitalization through digital language activism: entertainment, affection, and being connected.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.formatArticle
dc.format.extent16
dc.identifier.citationVan’t Hooft, Anuschka, José Luis González Compeán. 2024. Making our language visible: Urban Indigenous migrants and the revitalization of their native languages. Language Documentation & Conservation 18: 132-147.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/74802
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.titleMaking our language visible: Urban Indigenous migrants and the revitalization of their native languages
dcterms.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dcterms.typeText
prism.endingpage147
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage132
prism.volume18

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