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Revista Brasileira de Linguística AntropológicaEndangered languages are linguistic varieties for which intergenerational transmission has become threatened or interrupted under contact pressure from more dominant languages. Massive language obsolescence, more acute than biodiversity loss, is part of intangible cultural heritage loss and is often seen as a violation of linguistic human rights and a ...
Matthias Brenzinger, Sheena Shah
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Endangered Languages are not Low-Resourced! [PDF]
, 2021 The term low-resourced has been tossed around in the field of natural language processing to a degree that almost any language that is not English can be called "low-resourced"; sometimes even just for the sake of making a mundane or mediocre paper appear more interesting and insightful.
Mika Hämäläinen
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The Economic Value of Endangered Languages
Cadernos de LinguísticaIn a world where more than half of the 6,500 languages are under the threat of extinction, this paper challenges the conventional view that language preservation lacks concrete economic benefits.
Camiel Hamans +3 more
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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 +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 +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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