This section on Marshallese language provides a series of interviews of a diverse group of Marshallese community members in Springdale, Arkansas, who share their thoughts on challenges related to language, its transmission, and Marshallese orthography. As these interviews demonstrate, the Marshallese language functions in diaspora in ways that confound Western binaries that pit preservation against change. As Marshallese continue to relocate to the United States from the Republic of the Marshall Islands, an archipelago of 29 low-lying atolls and five islands in the central Pacific, community members increasingly express concerns over language and culture loss. Some Marshallese feel that their written language is a cultural manifestation of their Christian culture and learning the language in its relational spoken context is of primary importance. Still, others reflect on American imperialism, which exercised geopolitical power through nuclear colonialism and militaristic that enabled Americans to exploit ...

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马绍尔语和侨民

关于马绍尔语的这一部分提供了对阿肯色州斯普林代尔马绍尔社区成员的一系列采访，他们分享了他们对与语言、其传播和马绍尔正字法相关的挑战的看法。正如这些采访所表明的那样，马绍尔语在侨民中的运作方式使西方的二进制文件混淆了保存与变化。随着马绍尔人继续从马绍尔群岛共和国迁往美国，马绍尔群岛共和国是一个由 29 个低洼环礁和太平洋中部的 5 个岛屿组成的群岛，社区成员越来越多地表达对语言和文化丧失的担忧。一些马绍尔人认为他们的书面语言是他们基督教文化的文化表现，在相关的口语环境中学习语言是最重要的。