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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Endangered Language"”.
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A Description of the Phonology and Morphology of Kɔɖa, An Endangered Language of Bangladesh
… the phonology and morphology of Kɔɖa [cdz], an endangered language of Bangladesh and one of the least described Munda languages of South Asia. It has four chapters: 1) Introduction, 2) Phonology, 3) Morphology, and 4) Kɔɖa in the Context of Language Contact. Chapter 1 provides a demographic …
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Parental Attitudes Towards Early Childhood Education in Lower Sorbian: Challenges in Developing Bilingualism in a Critically Endangered Language
… Lower Sorbian or Wendish is a critically endangered West Slavic minority language spoken in the area around Cottbus, a town in eastern Germany near the Polish border. As intergenerational transmission of Lower Sorbian has virtually ceased, bilingual education in daycare centres and schools …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
The majority of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction within this century. Of the more than 6000 languages in the world, 4000-5000 are spoken by Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the loss of languages is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
The majority of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction within this century. Of the more than 6000 languages in the world, 4000-5000 are spoken by Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the loss of languages is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their …
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A phonological description of Wichí: The dialect of Misión La Paz, Salta, Argentina
<p>The Wichí language, a member of the Matacoan language family, is spoken in parts of South America’s Chaco region. Specifically, Wichí is found in the Salta, Chaco, and Formosa provinces of Argentina, as well as in southeastern Bolivia. Wichí is an endangered language, with speakers numbering c. …
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Elements of number theory
… and agreement in Kiowa, an indigenous, endangered language of Oklahoma. The central claim is that Universal Grammar provides three number features, concerned with unithood, existence of homogeneous subsets, and properties of those subsets. The features are used to analyze a wide variety …
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"""Walking the line"": bilingual sorbs, emotions, and endangerment in eastern Germany"
"As an anthropological study of language and emotions, this dissertation explores the local practices of the bilingual Sorbs, an endangered language community in eastern Germany near the Czech border. In the broadest terms, “Walking the Line”: Bilingual Sorbs, Emotions and Endangerment in Eastern …
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Complex Motion Predicates in Hiaki
… and analysis of this structure in Hiaki, an endangered language indigenous to North America, and it explores the extent to which complex predicates of motion may be said to form a discrete class crosslinguistically, either in structural or semantic terms, by comparing Hiaki with genetically …
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Urhobo: Language, Identity, and Design
Urhobo: Language, Identity and Design is a 3D web-based game design project that explores how technology and digital storytelling can preserve and promote the endangered language and cultural heritage of the Urhobo people of Nigeria's Niger Delta in Delta State. Inspired by UNESCO's warning that …
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English as a weapon of power : a double-edged sword
… with a focus on the South African debate about language and socio-economic empowerment. This exploration is carried out through an extended review of some of the theories that have challenged the notion that the spread of English is empowering for the majority of the world's population. I refer …
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Kia matatau ki te reo: Factors influencing the development of proficiency in te reo Māori with adult learners
… what factors help or hinder adult Māori second language learners to become proficient speakers of te reo Māori? I ask this question at a moment in history when te reo, like other indigenous languages, sits on the edge of a precipice in terms of its survival as a living language. Ambivalence and …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
Yelmek is a small endangered language spoken in the south-west of New Guinea. It is a member of the Yelmek-Maklew family, a maximal clade language family, which has less than a thousand fluent speakers by my estimation. The present work is the first in-depth description of any variety of this …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
Yelmek is a small endangered language spoken in the south-west of New Guinea. It is a member of the Yelmek-Maklew family, a maximal clade language family, which has less than a thousand fluent speakers by my estimation. The present work is the first in-depth description of any variety of this …
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Xri: A study of contact, and phonetic and phonological change
Xri is a Khoekhoe language spoken among the Griekwa people of the Northern Cape, South Africa, and was thought until recently to be extinct. Fieldwork conducted in 2018 and 2019 documented Xri spoken by 27 semi-speakers and rememberers, the last speakers of this dying language. The absence of …
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Functions of morphosyntactic alternations, and information flow in Surgut Khanty Discourse
Khanty is a Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia. Surgut Khanty with 2000 speakers is one of the variants of Eastern Khanty. Most speakers are bilinguals and Surgut Khanty is nowadays an endangered language. The main aim of this dissertation is to find the functions of rich morphosyntactic …
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Mā te hangarau te oranga o te reo Māori e tautoko ai? Can technology support the long-term health of the Māori language?
… be used to support the ongoing health of an endangered language? Since the late twentieth century unprecedented and substantial social changes have been propelled by advances in contemporary technologies. Continuous connectivity harnessing digital communication, mass media and social …
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Algerian Jewish Sign Language: its emergence and survival
… thesis is concerned with Algerian Jewish Sign Language (AJSL) and the Algerian Jewish Sign Language community. AJSL developed naturally in the Jewish quarter of Ghardaia, a town in the sub-Saharan part of Algeria. A high percentage of deaf people lived in this quarter, and because of that a …
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Preserving Friulian: Education, policy, and identity in the face of linguistic decline
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu)
A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu) offers a description of the endangered and previously undocumented Ahamb language spoken by around 950 people. This grammatical description is one of the main outcomes of the Ahamb Language Documentation Project, which involved over 8 months of data …
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Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants
<p>This study describes phonetic realizations of aspirated phonemes in Purepecha [pua] from Azajo. The distribution of aspiration in Purepecha is limited to roots, a small number of spatial suffixes, one argument structure changing suffix, and clitics. Aspiration is never contrastive for …
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