In this course, you will

• Explore connections between language and identity.
• Understand the impact of language loss on people around the world.
• Examine what is being done to revive languages today.

Week 1: Linguicide (Case for Revival)

• Understand the ethics of language revival
• Discuss the aesthetic considerations
• Explore the political and economic imperatives for language revival.

Week 2: Revivalistics (New Transdisciplinary Field of Enquiry)

• Express how and why working closely with your community is the best practice for language revival
• Discuss ways in which to coin new terms for new concepts and modern terminology
• Detail how and why language revival is a transdisciplinary, including linguistic, endeavour.

Week 3: Israeli (Case Study: Revived Hebrew)

• Describe the history of Hebrew and Israeli
• Start coining phono-semantic matches in order to expand the vocabulary of your revived language
• Analyse multiple causation and cross-fertilization between languages, which are an inevitable byproduct of language revival
• Apply the Founder Principle and the Congruence Principle in various contexts.

Week 4: Kaurna (Case Study)

• Discuss what happened to Kaurna and why it should be reclaimed
• Detail the sources and methods used to transform the language
• Explain how Kaurna language in used in the public domain
• Outline how to overcome the challenges for reawakening a language.

Week 5: Saving Languages (Recapitulation, Comparative Analysis)

• Discuss and apply the rigour of the Language Revival Diamond (LaRD)
• Differentiate and compare the key components of language revival as applied to the spectrum of reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration
• Detail the various methods employed to revive a language in a given state of loss
• Discuss ways in which languages might be preserved, revived or reclaimed, for future generations
• Contrast and compare the constraints and limitations of languages under revival.