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Language Documentation and Description, 2018 Te Reo Māori o te Pae Tonga o te Kuki Airani (Southern Cook Islands Māori) (henceforth Cook Islands Māori) is an endangered East Polynesian language spoken in the Cook Islands and amongst diaspora populations, predominantly in mainland New Zealand and in
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
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Is Yorùbá an Endangered Language?
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005 The phenomenon of language death is real. The phrase ‘language death’ may sound stark and unwelcome, but its grappling muscles on the throat of the Yoruba language have terrible, unannounced and unnoticed suffocating effects.
Felix Abidemi Fabuni, Akeem Segun Salawu
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in addressing climate change is acknowledged, but engagement with questions of voice remains limited, especially in the Global South. Addressing this, this paper zooms in on (International) nongovernmental organizations ((I)NGOs) and their collaborations with domestic CSOs in the Global South on ...
Margit van Wessel, Precious Akampurira
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Between “Threatened” and “Endangered”—The Validity of Vitality Labels
LanguagesLanguage vitality scales are commonly used in language documentation, yet assumptions behind labels such as “threatened” and “endangered” are often taken for granted.
Nala H. Lee +2 more
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Investigating the relatedness of the endangered Dogon languages
Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2013 In this article we apply up-to-date methods of quantitative language comparison, inspired by algorithms successfully applied in bioinformatics to decode DNA and determine the genetic relatedness of humans, to language data in an attempt to shed light on the current situation of a family of languages called Dogon, which are spoken in Mali, West Africa ...
Moran, Steven; Prokic, Jelena
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Allocating Conservation Resources under the Endangered Species Act [PDF]
The necessity to develop a priority system to guide the allocation of resources to the conservation of endangered species is widely recognized. The economic theory of biodiversity has established a framework to do so, and has identified priority criteria
Langpap, Christian, Kerkvliet, Joe
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Epileptic Disorders, EarlyView.Abstract Objective The postictal state is a major yet underrecognized component of the epilepsy burden. We aimed to develop a structured patient‐reported instrument to quantify postictal recovery, characterize its multidimensional burden, and identify demographic, clinical, psychiatric, and treatment‐related factors associated with postictal severity ...
Ionuț‐Flavius Bratu +2 more
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The documentation of endangered languages: The case of Cankiri Poshas
Dilbilim Araştırmaları DergisiThis paper examines the methods and techniques used in fieldwork for documenting endangered languages in Anatolia, taking the Çankırı variety of the Posha language as a case in point. The data for the study were collected from Çankırı Poshas between 2010
Melike ÜZÜM, Nurettin DEMİR
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CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES: CAN INCENTIVES WORK FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS? [PDF]
It has been argued that the traditional regulatory approach of the Endangered Species Act, based on land-use restrictions, has failed to protect endangered species on private land.
Langpap, Christian
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