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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"minority languages"”.
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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)
… of sound 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 …
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'The whole nation on one station'? National FM as a case study of radio for indigenous small linguistic communities in Zimbabwe
… the only PSB radio that broadcasts in all local languages. It examines the feasibility of having one radio station broadcasting in all the indigenous languages of Zimbabwe. Language rights are pivotal in human development and many countries have developed many ways that can be used to promote …
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… maintenance programmes) and the vitality of minority languages. It explores multiple factors, including parental expectations, that influence the decisions of parents who have chosen to educate their children through the medium of the standard variety of minority languages, specifically …
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Lessico nuovo in lingue di minoranza: ladino fassano e aranese a confronto.
This thesis focuses on the neology in minority languages, especially in the Ladin spoken in the Fassa Valley (Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) and Aranes spoken in the Aran Valley (Catalonia, Spain), as a means of evaluation of the vitality of these languages. The real grade of Ladin and Aranes is …
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Which Way for Catalan and Galician?
… Jay, M.A., Autumn 2006 Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Spanish Minority Language Attitudes in Galicia and Catalonia Chair: Professor Anthony Beltramo Despite legitimate fears of the effects twenty-first century globalization will have on linguistic diversity, vigorous efforts …
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Which Way for Catalan and Galician?
… Jay, M.A., Autumn 2006 Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Spanish Minority Language Attitudes in Galicia and Catalonia Chair: Professor Anthony Beltramo Despite legitimate fears of the effects twenty-first century globalization will have on linguistic diversity, vigorous efforts …
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Promoting and monitoring Low German: education policies and ideologies of language in the northern German Bundesländer
… of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML), an international treaty of the Council of Europe, in the 1990s represented a revolutionary step in the protection and promotion of endangered regional or minority languages in Europe. Its aim, which is to strengthen the …
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Phonemic inventory of the Shor language
… Mountainous Shoriya. It is one of more than 100 minority languages spoken in the territory of Russia, and it is currently on the verge of extinction. The language is characterized by agglutinative morphology, vowel harmony, and consonant assimilation typical of Turkic languages, which are …
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Developing a framework for a minority language-based utility
… a less diverse World Wide Web where only few languages are present. Based on the reversal language shift theory of Fishman, and using HDL as the technology approach, I propose a framework for deploying an online collaborative environment for enhancing the presence of minority languages on the …
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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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'Ane instructioun for bairnis to be learnit in Scottis' :a study of Scots language in the Scottish secondary classroom
… 1986). The European Union, under the Charter for Minority Languages, recognised Scots as a minority language in 2000 and the UK Government ratified Scots as such in 2001, yet Scots is still often perceived as ‘bad English’ or positioned within the invented romantic ‘tartanry’ of Scotland’s …
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A critical analysis of the linguistic and educational challenges facing Border-straddling speech communities, with special reference to the Nyanja-Chewa-Mang'anja cluster of Southeastern Africa
… commonly used 'cross-border' or 'trans-border languages'. The concept is to be understood to refer to socially defined speech communities divided by political borders, and implicitly in Africa almost always applies to perceived 'minority' languages. Such African languages are partially …
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Measuring minority language presence on Wikipedia: Towards the measurement of minority language presence on the World Wide Web
This study examines twenty majority language and minority language versions of Wikipedia (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Icelandic, Welsh, Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, West Frisian, North Frisian, Saterland Frisian, Breton, Catalan, Galician and Sardinian). The results …
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Bilingualism and educational achievement:a study of young bilinguals in Birmingham schools and colleges
… which would favour the attrition or survival of minority languages in the British situation. The data necessary to address this question was provided by a sample of three hundred and seventy-four 16-19 year olds, studying in Birmingham schools and colleges during the period 1987-1990 and drawn …
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Enabling visually impaired people to use touch screen phones
… However, they only support the most popular languages spoken in the world such as English. To our knowledge, although research on assistive technologies for the use of mobile devices by visually impaired people has been done, information on that relating to minority languages such as Swahili …
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Linguistic rights in Africa: A critical analysis of the survivability of indigenous languages of Namibia
The call for the protection and promotion of languages, especially minority languages has gained prominence in recent years largely due to awareness campaigns by academics and human rights organisations. The United Nations through its agency the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural …
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Analysis of the use of mother tongue based-multilingual education (MTB-MLE) strategies by teachers in lower primary grades in Chongwe rural district.
… to be able to design materials in Zambian languages that can be used in multilingual classrooms. In addition, teachers should be more liberal and innovative in the classroom by making use of other minority languages as opposed to regional languages.
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Analysis of the use of mother tongue based-multilingual education (MTB-MLE) strategies by teachers in lower primary grades in Chongwe rural district.
… to be able to design materials in Zambian languages that can be used in multilingual classrooms. In addition, teachers should be more liberal and innovative in the classroom by making use of other minority languages as opposed to regional languages.
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Use of the “ba” construction in Heritage Chinese speakers and L2 speakers of Chinese
… Heritage language speakers are exposed to minority languages from birth, and they are exposed to a majority language later in life (Polinsky & Kagan, 2007), which then causes the L2 to become the dominant language. Other L2 learners tend to retain their L1 as a dom-inant language. The ba …
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Language Policies in the European Union and India: A Comparative Study
… domains (administration, legal safeguards for minority languages, law, education, media, healthcare, business, and social welfare) in the EU and India and in two case studies each from the EU (Luxembourg, Wales), and India (Manipur, Tamil Nadu), chosen on the basis of maximum and minimum …
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