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Language ecology and photographic sound in the McWorld [PDF]
, 2006 The unique sounds of the world’s small-scale languages are being extinguished at an alarming rate. This article explores links between acoustic ecology and language ecology and outlines an approach to the creation of archive material as both source for ...
Wynne, John
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Ideophones in Arusa Maasai: Syntax, morphology, and phonetics
Open Linguistics, 2022 The present article is dedicated to the syntax, morphology, and phonetics of ideophones in Arusa Maasai. After examining the compliance of 69 ideophonic lexemes with the typologically driven prototype of an ideophone, the authors conclude that Arusa ...
Karani Michael, Andrason Alexander
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EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications, 2017 The languages are disappearing at an alarming rate; half of 7105 plus languages spoken today may disappear by end of this century. When a language becomes extinct, communities lose their cultural identity, practices tied to a language and intellectual ...
Asfahaan Mirza, David Sundaram
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A Program for the Preservation and Revitalization of the Languages of Russia
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2021 This article presents the Program for the Preservation and Revitalization of the Languages of Russia proposed by the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (the Program).
Andrej A. Kibrik
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Egyptian Informatics Journal, 2023 According to UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, 40% of the languages today are counted as endangered in the future. Indigenous languages are endangered because of the less availability of interactive learning mediums for those languages ...
Kanchon Kanti Podder +10 more
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, 2014 Over the few past centuries, and the last 65 years in particular, there has been a remarkable reduction in global linguistic diversity, as people abandon minority language varieties and switch to larger, and what they perceive to be more economically, socially and politically powerful, regional or national languages.
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Introductory survey of the South Estonian language islands
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 The South Estonian language islands – Leivu, Lutsi, Kraasna – are three historically South Estonian-speaking exclaves located not only beyond the borders of Estonia, but also geographically separated from the main body of South Estonian speakers for at ...
Uldis Balodis, Karl Pajusalu
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From Sementovskij to the 20th century. Notes on the Lutsis in the Latvian press
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 The Lutsis, a historically South Estonian-speaking language island community located near the town of Ludza in southeastern Latvia, have come increasingly into public awareness in Latvia over the last decade with the release of books on Lutsi history ...
Hannes Korjus
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Special opportunities for conserving cultural and biological diversity: The co-occurrence of Indigenous languages and UNESCO Natural World Heritage Sites [PDF]
, 2020 Recent research indicates that speakers of Indigenous languages often live in or near United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Natural World Heritage Sites (WHSs).
Gorenflo, L. J., Romaine, Suzanne
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Computer-Based Data Processing and Management for Blackfoot Phonetics and Phonology [PDF]
, 2011 More than half of the 6000 world languages have never been adequately described. We propose to create a database system to automatically capture and manage interested sound clips in Blackfoot (an endangered language spoken in Alberta, Canada, and Montana)
Min Chen +2 more
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