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In 1987, she founded the American Indian Language Development Institute at the University of Arizona, resulting in the linguistic training of many indigenous language educators and promoting the development and revitalization of native languages in Arizona and throughout the country. [1]
McIvor began her academic career as a Curriculum Developer for an Indigenous language issues course at the Camosun College in Victoria, BC. She then became a Researcher/Writer for the Office of the Provincial Advisor for Aboriginal Infant Development Programs, Aboriginal Head Start Association of BC, Public Health Agency of Canada, BC Aboriginal Child Care Society, First Peoples’ Heritage ...
The Indigenous Language Institute has also worked to provide language resources and services to indigenous groups digitally, whether it be through videos, transcribed texts, or online seminars. [5] In 2012, the Indigenous Language Institute partnered with Google to create an up-to-date list of endangered languages that could be accessed online. [7]
The project was the pioneering work of Sol Worth and John Adair, to which the origin of a new anthropological language and style of ethnography can be attributed. [4] [5] However, the indigenous media movement was not a significant phenomenon for another decade.
Over a thousand known languages were spoken by various peoples in North and South America prior to their first contact with Europeans. These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus).
Programming in Indigenous languages will be spun off to APTN Languages, which will carry at least 100 hours of Indigenous-language programming per-week in at least 15 Indigenous languages. To facilitate the new service, the CRTC also approved an increase in APTN's wholesale carriage fee from $0.35 per-subscriber to $0.38.
The Indigenous languages of Australia comprise numerous language families and isolates, perhaps as many as 13, spoken by the Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. [3] The relationships between the language families are not clear at present although there are proposals to link some into larger groupings.
As with many other Indigenous languages, there are significant barriers to language revitalization. [27] Another barrier separating new learners from the native speaker is the presence of four separate orthographies; the young are taught Uʼmista or NAPA, while the older generations generally use Boaz, developed by the American anthropologist ...