{"id":45514,"date":"2015-04-06T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T05:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/?p=45514"},"modified":"2019-03-24T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T13:28:14","slug":"endangered-languages-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/endangered-languages-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Ep. #9: Documenting An Endangered Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/endangered-languages.gif\" alt=\"Endangered Languages podcast\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>John Van Way,\u00a0a PhD candidate at\u00a0the University of Hawaii,\u00a0sat down with Chengdu Living to talk about Nyarong Minyag, the endangered language he has spent the last year researching and documenting.<\/p>\n<p>John shares his experience living in Chengdu, his thoughts\u00a0on the cultural and political significance of a language&#8217;s survival, and much more in this 49-minute long podcast.<\/p>\n<h2>Topics discussed:<\/h2>\n<p>00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n1:00 Basic details of John\u2019s language documentation project on\u00a0Nyarong Minyag<br \/>\n1:20 How John ended up studying this language in this part of the world<br \/>\n2:10 What qualifies as an endangered language?<br \/>\n3:10 Language-related identity politics<br \/>\n3:40 How to determine if a language is endangered<br \/>\n4:10 The Endangered Languages Catalogue and endangeredlanguages.com database<br \/>\n5:20 The difficulties of language revitalization and the success stories of Hawaiian and Gaelic<br \/>\n7:00 Latin\u2019s status as a \u201czombie language\u201d<br \/>\n8:15 Documenting the language for future use<br \/>\n8:40 The broader cultural implications of language extinction and language revitalization<br \/>\n10:00 John\u2019s Louisiana heritage and personal experience with language extinction<br \/>\n10:45 The political implications of language communities shrinking<br \/>\n11:45 Ganzi autonomous prefecture and linguistic diversity in the Tibetan plateau<br \/>\n13:00 The rampant multilingualism of communities in the Tibetan plateau<br \/>\n14:50 Cantonese and Tibetan vs. the Mandarinization of China<br \/>\n18:30 Written Tibetan as a unifying force<br \/>\n19:00 The course of John\u2019s research<br \/>\n22:15 John\u2019s collaborator\u2019s cultural documentation project<br \/>\n23:30 Music in this community<br \/>\n26:15 Wrapping your head around the process of mapping a language<br \/>\n28:30 How much more work is there to be done?<br \/>\n29:10 The sound patterns and phonology of the language<br \/>\n38:50 Summary of John\u2019s time in Chengdu<br \/>\n41:00 A message to\u00a0linguists<br \/>\n42:45 Endangered languages website and goodbye<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Songs and media features in this podcast:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/photay.bandcamp.com\/track\/nostalgic-flavors-intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nostalgic Flavors (Intro), by Photay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/photay.bandcamp.com\/track\/aperture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aperture, by Photay<\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endangeredlanguages.com\/lang\/8369\/samples\/7363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audio from a Minyag Tibetan Folktale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justintownesearle\/10-movin-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movin&#8217; On, by Justin Townes Earle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Download &amp; Stream Links<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/podcasts\/chengduliving.com_podcast9.mp3\">Download Podcast #9<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Or click below to listen to the podcast now through your browser.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-45514-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/podcasts\/chengduliving.com_podcast9.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/podcasts\/chengduliving.com_podcast9.mp3\">https:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\/podcasts\/chengduliving.com_podcast9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>You can also search for the podcast in your favorite podcasting app (mine is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overcast<\/a>, which we highly recommend for iPhone users).<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy the podcast, please share it! We look forward to recording more of these and continuing to chronicle and share the story of life in Chengdu.<\/p>\n<p><em>Interested in or currently pursuing linguistic research\u00a0in Western China? Study languages? Speak a language? Leave us your questions or thoughts in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sit down with John Van Way, a University of Hawaii PhD candidate,  to talk about his study of the endangered Sichuan-native Nyarong Minyag language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":45545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[254,5,96346,96338,96340],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Podcast: Documenting an Endangered Language in Sichuan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We sit down with John Van 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