Re: Modernized Native Language..
Bernard Spolsky (f24030@vm.biu.ac.il)
Thu, 17 Feb 1994 16:26:28 IST
Eliezer Ben Yehuda was an influential person, but it clear that
he did not single-handedly either revive Hebrew (many others were
involved in the language revitalization, especially devoted teachers
and students in the settlements, and parents who were happy to have their
children come home speaking the language. Much of the terminological
innovation had already occurred in less formal writing, or happened
later in the vernacular.
Some of the modernization process in Navajo was discussed in a chapter
Lorraine Boomer and I published in a book by Juan Cobarrubias and Joshua
Fishman in 1983 called Progress in Language Planning.
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