The language loss of the indigenous

Abstract

1. Symbolic power, nation-state and indigenous language : a sociological analysis of tribes in central India / Gomati Bodra Hembrom -- 2. Text, subtext and context of Indian culture in the developmental paradigm of globalization / Keya Majumdar -- 3. Adivasi art : the convergence of the intangible and the tangible / Lidia Guzy -- 4. Aesthetics of representation : media and Canadian Aboriginal resistance / Shaily Sharma -- 5. The forgotten tribe : the Kuravars of Tamil Nadu / A. Maria Mercy Amutha and G. Christopher -- 6. Tesu and Jhenjhi : a festival celebrating cultural life / Sonia S. Kushwah and A. S. Kushwah -- 7. Articulating tribal culture : the oral tradition of Lambadas / Banoth Deepa Jyothi -- 8. Micro and macro intergenerational oral communication in the Zion Christian Church / Lesibana J. Rafapa -- 9. Sacred places as traditional heritage for the Vhavenda indigenous community of Limpopo Province, South Africa / Nelson Mbulaheni Musehane -- 10. Translating power, gender and caste : negotiating identity, memory and history: a study of Bama's Sangati / Nishat Haider -- 11. Historiography or imagination? The documentation of traditional Luo cultural memory in Kenyan fiction / Alex N. Wanjala -- 12. Tackling endangered languages in the midst of diversity / Lachman Mulchand Khubchandani -- 13. Language shift among the Waddar speakers / Digambar Maruti Ghodke -- 14. Towards a revitalization of Urhobo : an endangered language of Delta State, Nigeria / Rose Oro Aziza -- 15. Itsekiri : threatened and endangered / Tony E. Afejuku and Alero Uwawah -- 16 Kikuyu phonology and orthography : any hope for continuity of indigenous languages? / P. I Iribemwangi -- 17. Endangered! The Igbo language dilemma in Nigeria / Chinenye Nwabueze and Ezinwanne Okoli -- 18. Aspects of discourse structure : a case of particles / Maloba Wekesa -- 19. Mobile telephone communication and the Akan language / Perpetual Crentsil.