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Mathematical ideas and indigenous languages

, 2021
Recent interest in how anthropology and linguistics relates to mathematics has led to recognition that mathematical thinking is a function of language in ways not previously recognised.
B. Barton, R. M. Frank
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Indigenous ethnic languages in Bangladesh: Paradoxes of the multilingual ecology

Ethnicities, 2021
Languages are at the centre of nationalistic discourses across South Asia since they have played a historically and politically significant role in defining nationhood and both uniting and dividing countries throughout the British Empire.
Shaila Sultana
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Reclaiming Indigenous Languages

Review of Research in Education, 2014
In this chapter, we offer a critical examination of a growing field of educational inquiry and social practice: the reclamation of Indigenous mother tongues. We use the term reclamation purposefully to denote that these are languages that have been forcibly subordinated in contexts of colonization (Hinton, 2011; Leonard, 2007).
Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas
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Documenting the acquisition of indigenous languages

Journal of Child Language, 2020
The outstanding property of human language is its diversity, and yet acquisition data is only available for three percent of the world's 6000+ spoken languages.
C. Pye
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Findings of the AmericasNLP 2024 Shared Task on the Creation of Educational Materials for Indigenous Languages

AMERICASNLP
This paper presents the results of the first shared task about the creation of educational materials for three indigenous languages of the Americas.The task proposes to automatically generate variations of sentences according to linguistic features that ...
Luis Chiruzzo, Pavel Denisov, Alejandro Molina-Villegas, Silvia Fernandez-Sabido, Rolando Coto-Solano, Marvin Agüero-Torales, Aldo Alvarez, Samuel Canul-Yah, Lorena Hau-Ucán, Abteen Ebrahimi, Robert Pugh, Arturo Oncevay, Shruti Rijhwani, Katharina von der Wense, Manuel Mager   +14 more
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Applying Linguistic Expertise to LLMs for Educational Material Development in Indigenous Languages

AMERICASNLP
This paper presents our approach to the AmericasNLP 2024 Shared Task 2 as the JAJ (/dʒæz/) team. The task aimed at creating educational materials for indigenous languages, and we focused on Maya and Bribri.
Justin Vasselli, Arturo Martínez Peguero, Junehwan Sung, Taro Watanabe   +3 more
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Students’ Voices on How Indigenous Languages Are Disfavoured in South African Higher Education

, 2020
South Africa is a country with 11 official languages. However, teaching and learning in South African universities continue to be dominated by a language that was imposed by colonialism.
T. Makhanya, Sibonsile Zibane
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Recognizing Indigenous Languages

2023
Abstract What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system in Ecuador has been one of the most prominent examples of Indigenous education in
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Revitalizing indigenous languages through indigenous immersion education

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, 2014
This article provides a context for understanding indigenous immersion education and the issues surrounding the model as a critical strategy for revitalization of indigenous languages. Through articulating narratives and drawing on literatures internationally, an image of indigenous language education models emerges.
Mary Hermes, Keiki Kawai'ae'a
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Minority languages as sustainable tourism resources: From Indigenous groups in British Columbia (Canada) to Cimbrian people in Giazza (Italy)

, 2020
Cultural aspects of a destination have always been part of the discourse on sustainable tourism, i.e. tourism that attempts to preserve cultural and environmental resources for future generations.
S. Lonardi, U. Martini, J. Hull
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