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, 2009 Biographical history and context: Professor Jan Snyman spent most of his life researching the lesser known and marginalised San languages of Botswana and South West Africa (now Namibia). Together with O. Kohler, E. Westphal and A.
Snyman, Jan
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Metaphors of language : the Vepsian ecology challenges an international paradigm [PDF]
, 2015 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Siragusa, Laura
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LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND LANGUAGE SHIFT [PDF]
, 2012 In language shifts, ancestral tongues are abandoned by their speakers and replaced, in one way or another, by dominant languages. Such changes in language use will ultimately lead to the irreversible suppression of the world's language diversity ...
Khalfalla, Hamza Aabeed
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Minority languages of China [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter looks at language endangerment in the People's Republic of China, focusing on three of the main factors that influence language maintenance in China today: increased contact due to population movements and changes in the economy; the ...
LaPolla, Randy J., Poa, Dory
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On-stack replacement, distilled [PDF]
, 2018 On-stack replacement (OSR) is essential technology for adaptive optimization, allowing changes to code actively executing in a managed runtime. The engineering aspects of OSR are well-known among VM architects, with several implementations available to ...
Bhandari Abhilash +14 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. Here we argue that this consensus figure vastly underestimates the danger of digital language death, in that less than 5% of all languages can still ascend
András Kornai
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Revita: a System for Language Learning and Supporting Endangered Languages [PDF]
, 2017 We describe a computational system for language learning and supporting endangered languages. The platform provides the user an opportunity to improve her competency through active language use.
Katinskaia, Anisia +2 more
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The impacts of biological invasions
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock +42 more
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The Status of Endangered Contact Languages of the World
, 2020 This article provides an up-to-date perspective on the endangerment that contact languages around the world are facing, with a focus on pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages.
Nala H. Lee
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart +57 more
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