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Amazonian biocultural heritage under climate change

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Cámara-Leret R   +2 more
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Endangered Languages

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1995
Endangered Languages. Robert H. Robins and Eugenius M. Uhlenbeck. eds. Berg: Oxford, 1991. 273 pp.
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Endangered Languages

2015
The reduction of the world’s linguistic diversity has accelerated over the last century and correlates to a loss of knowledge, collective and individual identity, and social value. Often a language is pushed out of use before scholars and language communities have a chance to document or preserve this linguistic heritage.
Chris Rogers, Lyle Campbell
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Language simplification in endangered languages?

Studies in Language, 2022
AbstractThe present paper examines a hypothetical correlation between language endangerment and the simplification of nominal and verbal inflections. After contrasting the complexities exhibited by two endangered languages (Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl and Wymysorys) with the complexities of their non-endangered predecessors (Older Nahuatl and Middle High ...
Alexander Andrason   +2 more
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Endangered language families

Language, 2012
Linguists have increased their documentation efforts in response to the sharp decline in the number of languages. Greater awareness and new sources of funding have led to an upsurge in language documentation. While individual languages make unique contributions to the world’s linguistic heritage, language families, by virtue of their shared ...
D. H. Whalen, Gary F. Simons
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Endangered Languages

1998
This book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives.
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Saving endangered languages

New Scientist, 2016
David Harrison has devoted his career to recording and studying languages that are spoken by just a handful of people. He tells Hal Hodson why they matter.
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