Community-Focused Language Documentation in Support of Language Education and Revitalization for St. Lawrence Island Yupik

• Published in: Études/Inuit/Studies
• Main Authors: Schwartz, Lane, Schreiner, Sylvia L.R., Chen, Emily
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) 2019
• Subjects: St. Lawrence Island Yupik; endangered languages; language education; computational; language revitalization; Île Yupik Saint-Laurent; langues en péril; langue enseignée; outils informatiques; revitalisation linguistique; Bering Strait; Endeavour; Lawrence Island; Détroit de Béring; Études/Inuit/Studies; St Lawrence Island; Yupik; Alaska
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071949ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1071949ar

St. Lawrence Island Yupik, an endangered language of the Bering Strait region spoken by fewer than one thousand people in western Alaska and far eastern Russia, is currently in a state of generational transition. We survey the existing body of Yupik literature and pedagogical resources developed dur...