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  • 11 - Indigenous Languages

  • Edited by Ilan Stavans, Amherst College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Conversations on Dictionaries
    Published online:
    25 December 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 132-144

  • Summary

    The wide-ranging conversation in this chapter between Ilan Stavans and Mark Turin terminological and definitional questions – such as what and who is Indigenous – the status and importance of linguistic diversity in North America and South Asia, and the role of missionaries in early dictionary work. Turin and Stavans discuss complex questions of colonialism, migration and settlement, Indigenous sovereignty in language work, and the powerful space that dictionaries occupy in language reclamation and revitalization projects. Turin offers ethnographic examples and cultural vignettes from his three decades of collaborative work with the Thangmi-speaking community of eastern Nepal, whose Indigenous Tibeto-Burman language he documented and for which he helped develop an orthography.