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2017
Relatively little is known about Africa’s endangered languages. In an era when we are racing against time to study and preserve the world’s threatened languages before they go extinct, a disproportionately low amount of research and funding is devoted to the study of endangered African languages when compared to any other linguistically threatened ...
Jason Kandybowicz, Harold Torrence
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Relatively little is known about Africa’s endangered languages. In an era when we are racing against time to study and preserve the world’s threatened languages before they go extinct, a disproportionately low amount of research and funding is devoted to the study of endangered African languages when compared to any other linguistically threatened ...
Jason Kandybowicz, Harold Torrence
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English Today, 1986
In a world where English threatens many other languages it is hard to imagine the English language under attack, but some campaigners in the United States insist that it is – and needs constitutional protection.
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In a world where English threatens many other languages it is hard to imagine the English language under attack, but some campaigners in the United States insist that it is – and needs constitutional protection.
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2003
in M. Janse & S. Tol (eds), Language Death and Language Maintenance (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol 240)
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in M. Janse & S. Tol (eds), Language Death and Language Maintenance (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol 240)
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2018
This chapter provides an introduction to endangered sign languages specifically designed for linguists who know little about sign languages but who may have an interest in the documentation of endangered sign languages. Focusing on ten Southeast Asian sign languages, nine of which are endangered or dying and six of which are being documented by fluent ...
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This chapter provides an introduction to endangered sign languages specifically designed for linguists who know little about sign languages but who may have an interest in the documentation of endangered sign languages. Focusing on ten Southeast Asian sign languages, nine of which are endangered or dying and six of which are being documented by fluent ...
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Describing endangered languages
2015The present contribution deals with documenting underdocumented and endangered languages in Africa. It focuses on the documentation of languages through PhD programs as most grammatical descriptions produced today stem from PhD theses. The focus lies on facets of the organization and conception of a PhD grammar project on the endangered Bantu language ...
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Language Contact and Endangered Languages
2020A major reason for language endangerment is intensive contact with another group whose language has gained, or is gaining, greater political, social and economic prestige and advantages. Speakers of an endangered language will gradually lose the capacity to fully communicate in the language, and fully understand it.
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