Leanne Hinton
Leanne Hinton speaking at an Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival conference, 2008
Born	28 September 1941 United States
Nationality	American
Education	PhD,University of California, San Diego (1977)
Occupation(s)	Linguist, Professor Emerita
Years active	1978–present
Employer	University of California, Berkeley (Emerita)
Known for	Language revitalization, American Indian languages, sociolinguistics
Notable work	Bringing Our Languages Home,How to Keep Your Language Alive
Awards	Cultural Freedom Award (2006), Language, Linguistics, and the Public award (2012)
Website	Hinton's home page

Leanne Hinton (born 28 September 1941) is an American linguist and emerita professor oflinguistics at theUniversity of California at Berkeley.

Hinton received her PhD in 1977 fromUC San Diego, with a dissertation entitled "Havasupai songs: a linguistic perspective," written under the supervision ofMargaret Langdon.^[1] After joining the Berkeley faculty in 1978, Hinton began working with California languages.^[2]

Hinton specializes inAmerican Indian languages,sociolinguistics, andlanguage revitalization.^[3] She has been described as "an authority on how and why languages are being lost, the significance of language diversity, and the ways in which indigenous tongues can be revitalized before it's too late."^[4] "She first worked with Native American groups onbilingual education,orthographic design and literature development.

Hinton is a director of theSurvey of California and Other Indian Languages (SCOIL), and also participates in language revitalization efforts and organizations, including the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival and its biennialBreath of Life conferences, for which she is a consulting board member.^[5][6][7][8] In collaboration withAndrew Garrett, Hinton has also directed a project to digitize many of the SCOIL records, which are now available through theCalifornia Language Archive.^[9] Hinton was involved in the creation of theMaster-Apprentice Language Learning Program while working with indigenous language speakers in California.^[10]

In 2006, Leanne Hinton was awarded a Cultural Freedom Award, which honours individuals who support communities in upholding diversity, cultural freedom and creativity, from theLannan Foundation.^[11]

In 2012, she was awarded the Language, Linguistics, and the Public award from theLinguistic Society of America.^[12]

• Hinton, Leanne (2013).Bringing Our Languages Home: Language Revitalization for Families. Berkeley: Heyday Books.ISBN 978-1597142007.
• Hinton, Leanne (2006).Sound Symbolism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-02677-2.
• Hinton, Leanne (2002).How to Keep Your Language Alive. Berkeley: Heyday Books.ISBN 978-1-890771-42-3.
• Hale, Kenneth; Leanne, Hinton (2001).The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice. Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-25449-7.
• Hinton, Leanne (2000).Ishi's Tale of Lizard (1st ed.). Heyday Books.ISBN 1-890771-32-5.
• Hinton, Leanne (1998).Studies in American Indian Languages. Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN 978-0-520-09789-6.
• Hinton, Leanne (1993).Flutes of Fire. Berkeley: Heyday Books.ISBN 978-0-930588-62-5.
• Hinton, Leanne (1984).Havasupai Songs: a Linguistic Perspective. City: John Benjamins Pub Co.ISBN 978-3-87808-356-6.
• Hinton, Leanne (1984).A Dictionary of the Havasupai Language. Havasupai Tribe. ASIN B0006YSJ6W
• Hinton, Leanne (1984).Spirit Mountain. Tucson: Sun Tracks and the University of Arizona Press.ISBN 978-0-8165-0817-4.

• Hinton's home page

• Linguists from the United States
• Language revival
• University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
• American social sciences writers
• Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
• People from Alameda County, California
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• Native American language revitalization
• Linguists of Algic languages
• Linguists of Havasupai–Hualapai
• Linguists of Uto-Aztecan languages
• 20th-century American women writers
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• American women linguists
• 1941 births
• American women academics

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