Guillaume Leduey

Guillaume Leduey
Born (1989-03-20)March 20, 1989
Le Havre
Fields linguistics
Academic advisors Michael E. Krauss
Website
http://guillaumeleduey.artblog.fr/p/profil/

Guillaume Leduey (born March 20, 1989)[1] is a French linguist and polyglot from Le Havre, France,[2][3] and also a sculptor.[4] Leduey is known for studying the extinct Eyak language and active participation in the campaign to revive Eyak.[5]

Leduey is a polyglot, and he is able to speak five languages besides Eyak:[2] French, English, German, Chinese, Georgian and some Lithuanian.[6] Leduey became interested in the dying Eyak language after he learned about its last native speaker, Marie Smith Jones, on the Internet.[5] At 12 or 13 years old he ordered Eyak text, audio materials and DVDs and started to study it.[2][4]

Leduey engaged in email communication with the Eyak Preservation Council, which was conducting an Eyak Language preservation project and Laura Bliss Spaan, a filmmaker of learning DVDs,[6] and met her when she visited France.[6] Later, Leduey contacted Michael E. Krauss, and in July 2010 he visited Cordova, Alaska, the Eyak ancestral homelands, in order to get instructions and further training in Eyak.[2][5] Under the academic assistance of Krauss, Leduey began analyzing Eyak tales.[2] Together with Krauss, Bliss Spaan and the Eyak Preservation Council they are working to revive Eyak[4] by publishing Eyak words and phrases on websites like Facebook and Twitter[4] and helping Eyaks study their language. During his visit to Alaska, Leduey also studied Eyak traditions, including culinary ones.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Guillame Leduey. le sculpteur". Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Native Eyak language may have a follower". juneauempire. 2010-06-29. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  3. ↑ "Frenchman Last Hope For Eyak". Alaska magazine. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Kyle Hopkins (2010-11-02). "Preserving Alaska's Native Languages — One Word at a Time". Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  5. 1 2 3 Rhonda McBride (2010-07-25). "Eyak language finds new speaker from unlikely upbringing". Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  6. 1 2 3 4 JIM CARLTON (2010-08-10). "In Alaska, a Frenchman Fights to Revive the Eyak's Dead Tongue". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
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