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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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CLD² Language Documentation Meets Natural Language Processing for Revitalising Endangered Languages
COMPUTEL, 2022 Language revitalisation should not be understood as a direct outcome of language documentation, which is mainly focused on the creation of language repositories.
R. Zariquiey +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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Sustainable Multilingualism, 2022 Summary Sociolinguists suggest language death entails significant cultural, personal, and ecological loss. Socio-cultural and socio-political factors exacerbate language erosion and encourage supplantation by another more dominant language. Hence, we ask:
D. Low, Isaac Mcneill, M. Day
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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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Migration of Small and Endangered Languages into the Wikipedia
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, 2021 This paper reviews the Wikipedias for the smallest languages it is available for. We compute the most frequent shared articles (by automatically extracting their translation links), categories and other features.
Armin Hoenen, Marc Rahn
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COMPUTEL, 2021 We argue that LARA, a new web platform that supports easy conversion of text into an online multimedia form designed to support non-native readers, is a good match to the task of creating high-quality resources useful for languages in the revivalistics ...
G. Zuckermann +6 more
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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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Developing a Shared Task for Speech Processing on Endangered Languages
COMPUTEL, 2021 Advances in speech and language processing have enabled the creation of applications that could, in principle, accelerate the process of language documentation, as speech communities and linguists work on urgent language documentation and reclamation ...
Gina-Anne Levow +2 more
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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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