Heid Orcutt-Gachiri
List of John Benjamins publications in which Heid Orcutt-Gachiri is involved.
Article
2013 How can a language with 7 million speakers be endangered? The Persistence of Language: Constructing and confronting the past and present in the voices of Jane H. Hill, Bischoff, Shannon T., Deborah Cole, Amy V. Fountain and Mizuki Miyashita (eds.), pp. 229–256 | Article
The stable trilingualism characteristic of older Kenyans is not shared by many young Kenyans. The shift away from Kenyan indigenous languages is affecting even large languages such as Gĩkũyũ. Where other scholars have been dismissive, claiming there is no threat to Gĩkũyũ, Jane Hill has strongly… read more