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The Dimensions of Morphosyntactic Variation: Whorf, Greenberg and Nichols were right

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2023
We examine a database of 3089 languages coded for 351 morphosyntactic features, including almost all of the morphosyntactic features found in The World Atlas of Language Structures (Dryer & Haspelmath 2013).
Siva Kalyan, Mark Donohue
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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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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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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, Mirić Mirjana, Ćirković Svetlana   +2 more
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The network nature of language endangerment hotspots

Scientific Reports, 2022
Language endangerment is one of the most urgent issues of the twenty-first century. Languages are disappearing at unprecedented rates, with dire consequences that affect speaker communities, scientific community and humanity.
Nala H. Lee, Cynthia S. Q. Siew, Nadine H. N. Ng   +2 more
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Native Language Teaching to the Siberian Peoples in Conditions of the New Language Situation [PDF]

ARPHA Proceedings, 2019
The reason for the relevance of the studied issue is a new language situation: firstly, native languages disappear from the sphere of everyday communication among small Siberian aboriginal peoples; secondly, theoretical, content-technological and ...
Elena Chaykovskaya
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Taking the Livonians into the Digital Space

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2021
The Livonians are a Finno-Ugric nation indigenous to Latvia. They are presently the most endangered culture in the European Union and their language is one of the most endangered languages in the world.
Valts Ernštreits, Gunta Kļava
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A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western)

Languages, 2019
Rengma is a Tibeto−Burman language from the Naga group (Angami−Pochuri) spoken in Northeast India. The paper is one of the first attempts in documenting the Western Rengma language, a variety of Rengma found in Karbi Anglong district, Assam ...
Monali Longmailai
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Endangered Languages

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica
A 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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Work on Endangered Languages

Linguistic Discovery, 2014
This paper makes three basic claims. First, the Linguistic Society of America, through the research agenda of its members, has been involved with the study of endangered languages from the society?s inception.
Lindsay J. Whaley
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