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Thursday, November 19, 1992
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Speaker stresses heritage
Indian languages valuable, he says
By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer
Before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, there were over 600 languages spoken by indigenous American Indians. Today, 187 languages survive.
"What is more alarming is that 149 out of these remaining languages are no longer being actively learned," said Akira Yamamoto, professor of anthropology and linguistics, in a speech delivered last night to 45 people at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. "That means that 80 percent of these languages are in danger of becoming extinct."
Yamamoto's speech, "The Place of Native American Languages in Education," was sponsored by the Native American Student Association. Yamamoto said it was vital that American Indians learn their native languages.
"When people lose language, they lose a part of their self-identity, and they lose self-confidence," he said. "When these Native American languages disappear, they lose a part of their culture that cannot be translated into other languages."
Yamamoto worked at the American Indian Languages Development Institute in Tucson, Ariz., until 1901. He works at the Native American Languages Institute in Edmond, OKla, during the summers helping the Kickapoo Indian Nation teach the Kickapoo language to children, as well as compiling dictionaries and written stories in the language. He said many American-Indian languages had difficulty surviving because they were not written languages.
"Written language is fairly recent for many tribes," he said. "But more and more tribes are developing writing systems because that is the best way for a language to survive."
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Yamamoto gave several examples of how American-Indian languages differed from English.
"In the Navajo language, there are no words to apologize or to say sorry," he said. "Apologies are not needed for small things like bumping into someone or breaking something. If you run into someone who is not a family member, you say, 'I didn't mean to do that.' If it's a family member, you make a joke, like 'Your foot is so big I stepped on it.'"
Yamamoto said that in public schools, teachers who did not understand American-Indian cultures had difficulties with American-Indian students.
"These Native Americans bring their culture and world views, which they have learned through their language, to school," he said. "That often leads to clashes in the school, when
Akira Yamamoto, professor of anthropology and linguistics, speaks of the possibility of KU having an American-Indian language program.
teachers don't understand certain behaviors."
Before the speech, the audience was asked to sign a petition sponsored by the Linguistic Graduate Student Association and the Student Association of Undergraduate Linguists to have American-Indian languages taught at KU. The associations have collected 400 signatures and have sent a letter to David Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, requesting classes in the languages.
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