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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Endangered languages"”.
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Tongue -Tied: Sociocultural Change, Language, and Language Ideology Among the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Sioux)
The number of languages spoken in the world declined considerably throughout the 20th century. In the last decade of that period, initiatives to revitalize endangered languages rose dramatically. However, in most cases revitalization initiatives did not halt or significantly slow language loss. In …
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Indigenous Language Reclamation: The Learners Perspective
… necessary to enhance the recovery our own endangered languages. These research findings indicate that there is a definite link between ancestral language reclamation and increased levels of self-esteem, a sense of grounded cultural identity and resilience, an overall sense of healing and …
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Kia matatau ki te reo: Factors influencing the development of proficiency in te reo Māori with adult learners
… 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 inaction will almost certainly constitute a push towards oblivion. Nothing less than concerted effort can pull te reo back from the brink. But …
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The Role of Sound Recordings in the Revitalisation of Minority Languages of the Ainu People (Japan) and the West Frisians (the Netherlands)
… recordings in the revitalisation of two minority languages – the Ainu (Japan) and the West Frisian (the Netherlands). Over the last few decades, a growing concern about linguistic diversity in the world has led to an increasing awareness of minority languages, which are endangered by loss. The …
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Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
… speaker’ paradigm borrowed from the field of endangered languages to explore the dynamics between Tuscan and non-Tuscan writers in early modern Italy, and the prominent role played by the latter in the codification of the literary variety. Focus is placed on the different prestige targets of …
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Putting PPs into order - Understanding prepositionality in the predominantly postpositional language Lule Sami
… PP-internal word-order variation in an endangered Uralic language, Lule Sami, which is indigenous to parts of Northern Norway and Sweden. The study focuses on the factors underlying prepositional occurrences in this predominantly postpositional language. It is mainly based on spoken data …
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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: A Comparative Grammar
… of Neo-Aramaic – a group of dialects and languages used by Jews and Christians in parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Like many other linguistic varieties from the North-Eastern branch, the dialect of Dohok now faces imminent extinction. This work is based on a language questionnaire and a …
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The teaching of Shanghainese in Shanghai kindergartens
<p>The Shanghainese language is currently in danger of becoming extinct. An increasing number of Shanghainese youth born in the 1990s are unable to speak Shanghainese. The Shanghai government officially issued a paper on the teaching of Shanghainese in Shanghai kindergartens in May, 2013 as a way …
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Rethinking decreolization: Language contact and change in Louisiana Creole
All languages change. Creoles are no exception. However, do creoles change in the same ways as other languages? Research on language change in creoles has hinged on the notion of decreolization: apparently a ‘special case’ of contact-induced change whereby the creole adverges to the lexifier …
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Visualising categorical data: Linguistic case studies from te Reo Māori and New Zealand English
… on two linguistic case studies that focus on languages of special significance in Aotearoa New Zealand. Addressing the low-resource status of Māori, the country’s Indigenous language, we first contribute two related Twitter datasets—a monolingual Māori corpus and a mixed–language Māori–English …
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A grammar of the Neverver language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
… (Vanuatu) is a synchronic account of the endangered Neverver language spoken by the Mindu and Sakhan peoples. The description is one outcome of a larger project to document the Neverver language, and it is based on a large and varied corpus of communicative events collected from Neverver …
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Vitalita současné galicijštiny
Mgr. Lenka Picková Vitalita současné galicijštiny Abstrakt: Nikdy v historii nedocházelo k tak rychlému vymírání jazyků, jako v současné době. Tato práce si klade za cíl posoudit životaschopnost jednoho z oficiálních jazyků Španělského království, galicijštiny. Po nezbytném vymezení …
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The teaching and learning of Hawaiian in mainstream educational contexts in Hawai‘i: Time for change?
… place in the teaching and learning of additional languages since the beginning of the 20th century have had little impact on the teaching and learning of Hawaiian in mainstream educational contexts in Hawai‘i. The vast majority of the teachers surveyed had little or no training in language …