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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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A grammar of Yauyos Quechua [PDF]
, 2017 This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is ...
Shimelman, Aviva
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LANGUAGE VITALITY: A CASE ON SUNDANESE LANGUAGE AS A SURVIVING INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE [PDF]
, 2011 Most Indonesians speak their own mother tongue as well as the national language which they learned at school. Sundanese language (basa Sunda) is one of the ethnic languages of Indonesia, spoken by the Sundanese people (urang Sunda), the second biggest ...
Indrayani , Lia Maulia +1 more
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And still they speak Diyari: the life history of an endangered language [PDF]
Ethnorêma, 2014 La lingua diyari era parlata tradizionalmente nell’estremo nord dello stato della South Australia, ed ha una storia interessante e complessa nota fin dal 1860, quando venne conosciuta per la prima volta da non aborigeni.
Peter K. Austin
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Coptic Language Learning and Social Media
Languages, 2019 This study explored the potential of using the Internet, including existing social media platforms, for Coptic language learning. Through global exposure, endangered language maintenance and revitalization efforts may benefit from having a presence on ...
D. Nicole Deschene
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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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The Topology of Endangered Languages
Signs and Society, 2017 AbstractFew sources exist from which to form impressions of how Indigenous Australians have made sense of the questions put to them by linguists. For one survey, conducted by Summer Institute of Linguistics linguists in 1970, we have a transcript of conversations between linguists and speakers. The linguists were asking for information about the mutual
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Language death and revival: Cornish as a minority language in UK
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2013 The paper introduces the worldwide phenomenon of language death, and briefly elaborates on the arguments for saving endangered languages. The main focus of the paper is revived Cornish. Cornish is a Celtic language that was spoken in Cornwall, UK between
Zsuzsanna Renkó-Michelsén
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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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