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A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western)
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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Preserving Endangered Languages [PDF]
Abstract Over the last few decades an increasing number of books, scholarly articles and media reports have predicted that as many as 60 to 90% of the world's some 6900 languages may be at risk of extinction within the next 100 years. This article provides an overview of the current state of the world's languages, explains some causes
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CALL for endangered languages: Challenges and rewards [PDF]
The interaction between CALL and Endangered Languages (EL) is an under-researched and under-exploited field. It is perhaps no surprise that this should be the case as CALL in the EL context has to address additional requirements and deal with extra ...
van Genabith, Josef, Ward, Monica
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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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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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Ideophones in Arusa Maasai: Syntax, morphology, and phonetics
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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Metaphors of language : the Vepsian ecology challenges an international paradigm [PDF]
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Siragusa, Laura
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A Program for the Preservation and Revitalization of the Languages of Russia
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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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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The Topology of Endangered Languages
AbstractFew sources exist from which to form impressions of how Indigenous Australians have made sense of the questions put to them by linguists. For one survey, conducted by Summer Institute of Linguistics linguists in 1970, we have a transcript of conversations between linguists and speakers. The linguists were asking for information about the mutual
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