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Language endangerment: Using analytical methods from conservation biology to illuminate loss of linguistic diversity

Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023
Language diversity is under threat, with between a third to a half of all languages considered endangered, and predicted rates of loss equivalent to one language per month for the rest of the century.
Lindell Bromham
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AGE OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INVOLVING A MINOR IN ACTIONS THAT POSE A DANGER TO THE MINOR'S LIFE [PDF]

Legal Bulletin
The article examines the age characteristics of the subject liable under Article 151² of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The relevance of this study stems from the fact that, in contemporary society, protecting the normal development, life ...
GREBENKOVA L
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Metaphors of language : the Vepsian ecology challenges an international paradigm [PDF]

, 2015
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Siragusa, Laura
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The distribution of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) in Haloze, East Slovenia

Natura Sloveniae, 2003
Almost nothing has been known about the butterfly fauna of Haloze prior to our survey. During our field trips, including an extensive survey carried within the framework of the Student Research Camp Videm 2002, surprisingly high butterfly diversity was ...
Rudi Verovnik
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The network nature of language endangerment hotspots

Scientific Reports, 2022
Language endangerment is one of the most urgent issues of the twenty-first century. Languages are disappearing at unprecedented rates, with dire consequences that affect speaker communities, scientific community and humanity.
Nala H. Lee, Cynthia S. Q. Siew, Nadine H. N. Ng   +2 more
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Endangered oral literature genres in Punan Tubu (East Kalimantan) [PDF]

, 2013
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Soriente, Antonia
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Presenting Endangerment [PDF]

Environmental Humanities, 2020
AbstractEndangered species are not simply revealed but are presented. This process of presentation is shaped by conservation discourses that reflect how actors understand, categorize, and imagine nonhuman life. Such discourses combine to produce narratives of endangerment, which influence policy and conservation efforts.
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Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction?

Conservation Letters, 2019
Many of the world's vertebrates have experienced large population and geographic range declines due to anthropogenic threats that put them at risk of extinction. The largest vertebrates, defined as megafauna, are especially vulnerable.
William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, Matthew G. Betts, Gerardo Ceballos, Franck Courchamp, Matt W. Hayward, Blaire VanValkenburgh, Arian D. Wallach, Boris Worm   +9 more
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A contribution to the knowledge of the butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of the Cerkljansko Idrijsko region, west Slovenia, with notes on their vertical distribution

Natura Sloveniae, 2000
Results of the fieldwork carried out by a lepidopterology group at the Student Research Camp Cerkno '00 are presented. Altogether, 77 butterfly species were recorded between June 26th and July 3rd 2000 at 38 localities, including individual observations.
Rudi Verovnik
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Introduction: Compiling ‘Endangered Knowledge’

KULA, 2018
This essay introduces a special issue of KULA on the subject of ‘endangered knowledge,’ comprising 22 essays by 34 authors working across a wide array of disciplines and fields.
Samantha MacFarlane, Rachel Mattson, Bethany Nowviskie   +2 more
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