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Publication details [#57649]

Page, Christina Joy. 2013. A new orthography in an unfamiliar script: a case study in participatory engagement strategies. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 34 (5) : 459–474.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

minority language | orthography | participation framework | script | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Languages, Southeast Asia

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article on workshops in which speakers of two southeast Asian minority languages without written tradition generated orthographies for their languages (in previously unknown scripts), reveals the impact of sociolinguistic factors and the need for community participation.