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Can majority support save an endangered language? A case study of language attitudes in Guernsey [PDF]
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013 Many studies of minority language revitalisation focus on the attitudes and perceptions of minorities, but not on those of majority group members. This paper discusses the implications of these issues, and presents research into majority andf minority ...
Baker C. +27 more
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Lutsi speakers and rememberers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article describes the language of the last speakers of Lutsi as well as their family background and the sources of their language knowledge, in order to show the paths by which Lutsi language knowledge – even if only of a fragmentary sort – has ...
Uldis Balodis
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Introductory survey of the South Estonian language islands
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 The South Estonian language islands – Leivu, Lutsi, Kraasna – are three historically South Estonian-speaking exclaves located not only beyond the borders of Estonia, but also geographically separated from the main body of South Estonian speakers for at ...
Uldis Balodis, Karl Pajusalu
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Beyond Linguistic Documentation: Between the National Language and Local Languages in Indonesia
Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature, 2022 This paper discusses the politics of national language policy, especially in Indonesia and the effects of the policy toward the continuity of language diversity in Indonesia.
Hanafi Hanafi
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UNESCO’s Atlas on Endangered Languages and the Local Context
SEEU Review, 2021 This article analyses the overall development of the endangered language around the world in reference to UNESCO’s Atlas of World Endangered Languages and reflects on the local context.
Poshka Agim
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Lower Sorbian (New) Speakers: Questions Worth Asking
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2021 Lower Sorbian (New) Speakers: Questions Worth Asking This article discusses the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted among speakers of Lower Sorbian in autumn/winter 2020/2021.
Joanna Chojnicka
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 Njerep is a language on the edge of extinction. It is no longer spoken on a regular basis, nor is it even known well by anyone speaker. There are now, in fact, only five people who remember the language well enough to produce fragments of speech or who ...
Bruce A. Connell +2 more
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Endangered languages: The case of Irish Gaelic [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2018 Research into why some languages die and why other languages survive is an important area of linguistic and cultural research. Languages represent a culture and when the language dies, more often than not, the culture it expresses dies with it.
Peter McGee
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A sketch of Ongota a dying language of southwest Ethiopia
Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 The article provides a grammatical sketch of Ongota, a language on the brink of extinction (actively used by eight out of an ethnic group of nearly one hundred) spoken in the South Omo Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia.
Graziano Savà, Mauro Tosco
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Revista Brasileira de Linguística AntropológicaA concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world's languages—or, approximately 4,000 languages—are endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than ten language keepers.
Matthias Brenzinger, Sheena Shah
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