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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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Open-Source Morphology for Endangered Mordvinic Languages
NLPOSS, 2020 This document describes shared development of finite-state description of two closely related but endangered minority languages, Erzya and Moksha. It touches upon morpholexical unity and diversity of the two languages and how this provides a motivation ...
Jack Rueter +2 more
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Revitalising Endangered Languages: Challenges, Successes, and Cultural Implications
Futurity of Social SciencesLanguage is a cornerstone of cultural identity, yet many of the world's languages are at risk of disappearing, either historically or as a result of deliberate actions by aggressive neighboring states, if not appropriately addressed.
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STAMP morphs, prefix conjugations and multiverb predicates in the Chadic languages
Afrika und ÜberseeSTAMP morphs, prefix conjugations and the multiverb predicate subtype called auxiliary verb constructions (AVCs) that these derive from in the Chadic languages are discussed. Chadic languages are typically SVO (or VSO) and typically AUX V syntactically.
Gregory D. S. Anderson
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Linguistic Justice and Endangered Languages
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2016 This contribution will engage with Van Parijs’s approach to linguistic justice and his working principles for the reduction of unfairness in the language domain (in particular, the need for intervention and his territorial principle), reflecting on a ...
Salverda Reinier
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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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Report of the DELAMAN Costing Case Study [PDF]
, 2014 DELAMAN member archives estimated the costs of archiving two sample deposits of language documentation data. Comparing these costs to the cost of funding a documentation project which would generate this amount of data, the costs of archiving can be ...
Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archiving Network
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The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages
Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2019 The last few years have seen an increase in handbooks – monographs that should by any standard aim to function as well-rounded state-of-the-art reports on all the various relevant aspects that constitute a particular specialized field of a given ...
Luka Repanšek
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