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Heritage Language Vitality among University Students in Malaysia
Journal of Modern Languages, 2020 Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and multilingual country where over 130 languages are spoken by a population of around 32 million people. In spite of such diversity, only one language is official: Malay.
Paolo Coluzzi
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Una proposta per lo studio della vitalità delle lingue
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014 The paper deals with the establishment of a series of procedures to find out and measure the subjective ethnolinguistic vitalities of lesser used languages when the overall sociolinguistic situation is quite well-known.
Gabriele Iannaccaro +1 more
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Between the Word of the Law and Practice: a Case of the Hungarian Speakers in Serbia
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2017 The paper initially presents the Serbian legislative framework relevant to the use of minority languages. The ethnolinguistic vitality of the Hungarian-speaking population in Serbia is then analysed, particularly in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. The
Mandić Marija +1 more
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An Analysis of the Vitality of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ngoni People of Tanzania
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2015 The current article looks at the vitality of the intangible cultural heritage of the Ngoni ethnolinguistic group of southern Tanzania to show how a contact situation combined with internal dynamics in the community shape the future of intangible ...
Gastor Mapunda
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Ethnolinguistic Information about RUGYS (Rye) in Lithuanian Dialect Dictionaries
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 The article analyzes what ethnolinguistic information about rye can be read in the entries of Lithuanian dialect dictionaries. The research data were selected from thirteen dictionaries of Lithuanian dialects and the comprehensive Lietuvių kalbos žodynas
Vilija Sakalauskienė
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Sorghum is a staple food for hundreds of millions of people in dry regions worldwide, and improving its nutritional quality is vital for global food and health security under climate change. In this study, we evaluated traditional Sudanese sorghum varieties grown in eastern deltas to better understand their natural health‐promoting properties. We found
Khitma A. Sir Elkhatim +5 more
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“Hindi Bayani/Not a Hero”: The Linguistic Landscape of Protest in Manila
Social Inclusion, 2017 This article examines the linguistic landscape of Manila during a protest march in November 2016 in response to the burial of deposed president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery).
Jennifer Monje
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Tuvan in Education: Vitality of the Language Revisited
Oriental Studies, 2022 Introduction. The article examines the functioning of Tuvan in the educational system from a historical perspective throughout the 20th–21st centuries.
Sayzana S. Tovuu
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Linguistics Landscape: a Cross Culture Perspective [PDF]
, 2020 This paper was to aim in discussing the linguistic landscape. It was the visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region (Landry and Bourhis 1997).
Duizenberg, M. R. (Max)
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The hole in the doughnut: Formalizing and testing a key model of degrowth
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Degrowth scholars often claim that capitalism generates social and ecological imbalances, as captured by Kate Raworth's leading doughnut model. We formalize this model using social and environmental indices and measure imbalances using their coefficient of variation.
Ashruta Acharya +2 more
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