Editing Carolinian language (section)

===Saipan Carolinian Orthography Committee===

A preliminary meeting was called at the Headquarters Education Department conference room on July 21, 1976. The site was decided on since it was equidistant from both the northern and southern Carolinian communities. The meeting was to review the initial steps for setting up an orthography acceptable to both communities and to select the members of the orthography committee. The official orthography conference was held from July 26 to August 4, 1976. The meeting opened with an address by the Director of Education for the Marianas. Mr. Jesus M. Conception, representatives from the [[Mariana Islands|Marianas]] Education Department and the [[Chamorro language|Chamorro]] Orthography Committee also appeared at the convention on an irregular basis.

This convention decided that no dialect would be chosen as the official dialect for school and government documents. In other words, the committee agreed to pick standard systems of presenting the pronunciations of all three dialects, and Carolinians should use that framework to reflect the specific dialectical pronunciations. School teachers would not have to enforce one dialect but instead, allow students to use the correct spelling for the dialect they speak.<ref name="Elameto">{{cite book|last=Elameto|first=Jesus Mareham|title=Linguistic Dimensions of Vernacular Education for Saipan Carolinians|date=1977|publisher=University of Hawaii}}</ref>