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By Bernard C. Perley

Published throughout the recuperating Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported via the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Today, indigenous groups all through North the United States are grappling with the twin problems with language loss and revitalization. whereas many groups are making efforts to deliver their conventional languages again via academic courses, for a few groups those efforts aren't adequate or have come too overdue to stem the tide of language demise, which happens whilst there are not any final fluent audio system and the language is not any longer utilized in average conversation. The Maliseet language, as spoken within the Tobique First state of latest Brunswick, Canada, is one such endangered language that would both be revitalized and continue to exist or will die off.

Defying Maliseet Language Death is an ethnographic examine through Bernard C. Perley, a member of this primary kingdom, that examines the function of the Maliseet language and its survival in Maliseet id procedures. Perley examines what's being performed to maintain the Maliseet language alive, who's actively interested by those strategies, and the way those components mix to advertise Maliseet language survival. He additionally explores questions of identification, asking the $64000 query: “If Maliseet isn't any longer spoken, are we nonetheless Maliseet?” This well timed quantity joins the twin problems with language survival and indigenous id to offer a special point of view at the position of language inside culture.

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