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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6148 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes  | Message 1 of 5 16 July 2009 at 4:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone know of accounts of modern linguists moving in with a tribe and living with them to learn their language? I would prefer those of solitary individuals or at least small groups rather than missionary organizations.
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| pohaku Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 192 posts - 367 votes Speaks: English*, Persian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 5 16 July 2009 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a linguist who was in the news, particularly interesting because of the claims that the language had an extremely simple counting system:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mythfolk@yahoogroups.com/msg0186 1.html If you google around you can find more complete accounts of the linguist, his experiences living on location, and so forth. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 5 16 July 2009 at 10:21am | IP Logged | ||
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See this thread
However moving in with a tribe to learn their languages has not been a rare occurrence, - the Bloomfield school in American linguistics in fact made this kind of study their hallmark (but then came Chomsky...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 4 of 5 23 July 2009 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Take a look at the memoir 'Don't Sleep: There Are Snakes' by Daniel Everett, who lived with the Piraha tribe in Brazil for several years and studied their language.
He began as a missionary with his family there, but he talks a lot about the language and the culture itself and how he came to eventually feel the need of not needing to convert them, so he doesn't focus on religion in his book. It's a fun, quick read. Edited by Journeyer on 23 July 2009 at 7:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6148 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 5 of 5 23 July 2009 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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