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Over the past several years, there has been a focus on literacy in the native American languages of the Northwest Territories, Canada. I have been involved in a committee that is concerned with the development of orthographic conventions for one of the languages of the Athapaskan family in the Northwest Territories. This language, defined largely on geographical and political grounds rather than on linguistic grounds, is usually called North Slavey or Dene.1In this paper, I discuss a process that is part of the development of literacy for North Slavey, a process that is designed to lead to orthography standardization.
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Rice, K.D. (1995). Developing Orthographies: The Athapaskan Languages of the Northwest Territories, Canada. In: Taylor, I., Olson, D.R. (eds) Scripts and Literacy. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1162-1_6
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