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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"language death"”.
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Zwivhangi na masiandoitwa a muvango kha Luambo lwa Tshivenda doroboni ya Beitbridge
Code switching is a factor that is affecting many languages in our communities. There are so many factors that have led people to code switch. People seem to think that it is a good thing to code switch overlooking the impacts of code switching. The aim of this research is to reveal the causes of …
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从语码转换到语言转移以槟榔屿潮州话为例 = From Code-Switching to Language Shift: A Case Study on Penang Teochew
Most students of code-switching would name language shift or language death as one of the many consequences of code-switching. Meanwhile, students of language shift would demonstrate how code-switching happens during the process of shifting. Nevertheless, no one has yet proven or disproven that …
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Linguistic Variations Between Cajun French, Pedagogical French, And Mississippi Gulf Coast French
… three dialects of French in various stages of language death. Those dialects are Pedagogical French, an international language, Cajun French, an obsolescing language, and Mississippi Gulf Coast French, an extinct language. In order to determine the degree of variation, thirty-two lexical items …
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!Ui-Taa language shift in Gordonia and Postmasburg Districts, South Africa
… presents a case study of the demise of !Ui-Taa languages in South Africa during the 20th century, with particular attention to N|u, the last surviving variety. The geographic focus is on Gordonia and Postmasburg Districts in the Northern Cape province. Drawing on the work of Diamond (1998), the …
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A history of the Bhojpuri (or "Hindi") language in South Africa
Although Indian languages have existed in South Africa for the last 125 years, there are no academic studies of any of them - of their use in South Africa, their evolution and current decline. Many misconceptions persist concerning their names, their structure, and status as 'proper' languages. …
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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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Translingual nostalgias in modern Sanskrit and Indian poetry in English
… genres of South Asia, my dissertation looks to language and translation as crucial sites of nostalgic work. This focus leads me away from the novel genre—postcolonial scholarship’s usual focus—towards South Asian poetry, which maintains a more active multilingualism and a greater continuity with …
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Language in the Mirror: Language Ideologies, Schooling and Islam in Qatar
My study explores language ideologies in the capital city of Doha, Qatar, where school reform movements are placing greater emphasis on English language acquisition. Through ethnography and a revised theory of language ideologies, I argue that as languages come in greater contact in multi-lingual …
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The teaching and learning of Hawaiian in mainstream educational contexts in Hawai‘i: Time for change?
… be fewer than 1,000 native speakers of Hawaiian language (ka ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i) in Hawai‘i. The majority of those who now learn Hawaiian do so in mainstream educational contexts and the majority of teachers of Hawaiian have learned the language as a second language in mainstream educational …