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Download full textBiava, Christina – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1990
Native American language communities have had four choices regarding the adoption or change of a writing system in recent years: to adopt or not to adopt a system, or in the case of an existing system, to alter it or not to alter it. The paper also examines the criteria of orthography choice and functions of literacy. Bilingual education issues…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy
