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Title:		Words should be fun: Scrabble as a tool for language preservation in Tuvan and other local languages
Bibliographic Citation:		Voinov, Vitaly; 2010-12; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4480.
Creator:		Voinov, Vitaly
Date (W3CDTF):		2010-12
Description:		One small but practical way of empowering speakers of an endangered language to maintain their language’s vitality amidst a climate of rapid globalization is to introduce a mother-tongue version of the popular word game Scrabble into their society. This paper examines how versions of Scrabble have been developed and used for this purpose in various endangered or non-prestige languages, with a focus on the Tuvan language of south Siberia, for which the author designed a Tuvan version of the game. Playing Scrabble in their mother tongue offers several benefits to speakers of an endangered language: it presents a communal approach to group literacy, promotes the use of a standardized orthography, creates new opportunities for intergenerational transmission of the language, expands its domains of usage, and may heighten the language’s external and internal prestige. Besides demonstrating the benefits of Scrabble, the paper also offers practical suggestions concerning both linguistic factors (e.g., choice of letters to be included, calculation of letter frequencies, dictionary availability) and non-linguistic factors (board design, manufacturing, legal issues, etc.) relevant to producing Scrabble in other languages for the purpose of revitalization.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:		18 pages
Identifier:		Voinov, Vitaly. 2010. Words should be fun: Scrabble as a tool for language preservation in Tuvan and other local languages. Language Documentation & Conservation 4. 213-230.
		1934-5275
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4480
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Publisher:		University of Hawai'i Press
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
		Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
		by-nc-nd-nsa
Subject:		Tuvan
		Scrabble
		language revitalization
Table Of Contents:		voinov.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Voinov, Vitaly. 2010. University of Hawai'i Press.
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