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Non-modal phonation associated with stød vowels in Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018 Livonian is unique among the Finnic languages in possessing a two-way tonal contrast in primary stressed syllables. Observed already in the earliest linguistic descriptions of Livonian, this two-way contrast between stressed syllables with stød (also ...
Uldis Balodis
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Endangered Language Documentation and Transmission [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2007 This paper describes an on-going project on digital archiving Yami language documentation (http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=60).
D. Victoria Rau +2 more
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Investigating the Correlation between Native Speakers’ Attitudes towards their Language and the Level of their Language Endangerment based on UNESCO’s Operational Document [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2019 The present study investigated the relationship between native speakers’ attitude towards their language and the level of their language endangerment based on UNESCO’s operational document of living and endangered languages (2003).
Elinaz Farmahini Farahani +1 more
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Reflexive and Reciprocal Encoding in the Australian Mixed Language, Light Warlpiri
Languages, 2021 Mixed languages combine significant amounts of grammatical and lexical material from more than one source language in systematic ways. The Australian mixed language, Light Warlpiri, combines nominal morphology from Warlpiri with verbal morphology from ...
Carmel O’Shannessy, Connor Brown
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2002 The paper explores how Chingoni, a language of the conquering Ngoni, lost out to Chitumbuka and Chichewa, the languages of the conquered Tumbuka and Chewa respectively, as a language of everyday communication to the extent of being moribund.
Pascal J. Kishindo
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Morphological Alignment in Khorramabad Lori Language [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023 Every region’s language and dialect have a main influence on the formation of the people’s worldview and identity, but recently these languages and dialects have been left and ignorance endangered for reasons such as the effect of the standard language ...
Fatemeh Akoondi
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The Language Variations Used among Speakers of Sasak Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara
Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2023 Sasak language is rich of language varieties, both in dialect (pronunciation) and vocabulary. It is a unique language which shows some influences from Java, Bali and Makasar as the neigbouring Islands.
Sugianto Sugianto, Muhammad Asrul Hasby
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, 2014 Over the few past centuries, and the last 65 years in particular, there has been a remarkable reduction in global linguistic diversity, as people abandon minority language varieties and switch to larger, and what they perceive to be more economically, socially and politically powerful, regional or national languages.
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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: compiling a dictionary of an unexplored language (kimmar — kodest) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018 This paper presents new material for the dictionary of the present-day dialect of Staroshvedkoye (Gammalsvenskby), the only Scandinavian dialect on the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Mankov Alexander
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Assessing linguistic vulnerability and endangerment in Serbia a critical survey of methodologies and outcomes [PDF]
Balcanica, 2020 The paper offers a critical survey of vulnerable and endangered languages and linguistic varieties in Serbia presented in three international inventories: UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, Ethnologue and The Catalogue of ...
Sorescu-Marinković Annemarie +2 more
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