Research on the Current State of, and Countermeasures for, the Protection of Minority Languages — Taking Naxi as an Example
Li Li surveys the endangerment of Naxi and proposes protection measures. She reviews domestic and international research on minority-language education and cultural protection, then details the state of Naxi (roughly 300,000 speakers, mostly in Lijiang), its two scripts (Dongba pictographic and Geba syllabic) and its 1957 Latin-based romanization. She identifies three channels of transmission -- bilingual schooling, cultural tourism, and oral intergenerational transmission -- and finds all three failing: bilingual education lacks textbooks, trained teachers, funding, and varied methods; tourism reduces Naxi language to decorative, silent Dongba script motifs rather than living use; and intergenerational oral transmission is declining as younger Naxi increasingly favor Chinese. She proposes concrete countermeasures across bilingual-teacher training, textbook development, tourism-industry language training, memetic and language-vitality theory, and government incentives for learning Naxi.
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