Safeguarding Your Language Through Documentation: A Toolkit for Beginners

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Documenting a language can keep it strong for future generations, and anyone can contribute to this work. If you’re interested in documenting your language, this toolkit - created by and for Indigenous Peoples - offers practical steps you can follow. We recognize the urgency and need to record our languages, and we lead this type of work through training and action-focused strategies. We designed this toolkit for people without formal training in linguistics, documentation or technology. If you’re interested in supporting your community through language revitalization or would like to document your language or the stories told by relatives or community members, this toolkit is for you. We aimed to make it simple and easy to follow in hopes of supporting language learners, Knowledge Holders, youth, and anyone else on their language documentation journeys.

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http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_e059

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La documentation pour protéger sa langue : guide pour débutantes et débutants

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en, fr

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