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Designing Indigenous Language Revitalization

Harvard Educational Review, 2012
Endangered Indigenous languages have received little attention within the American educational research community. However, within Native American communities, language revitalization is pushing education beyond former iterations of culturally relevant curriculum and has the potential to radically alter how we understand culture and language in ...
Mary Hermes, Megan Bang, Ananda Marin
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Indigenous languages in Canada

Canada Watch, 2020
This booklet is an introduction to the linguistic study of the Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. The following topics are covered: approaching the study of Indigenous languages from an informed and respectful perspective; the geographical distribution of Indigenous languages in Canada; some notable structural properties of Indigenous languages ...
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Australian Indigenous sign languages

2023
AbstractAustralian Indigenous sign languages hold a special place in typologies of the world’s many and varied sign languages. This is partly a consequence of the unique determinants of their use, where sign is predominantly employed by hearing people as a replacement for speech in certain cultural contexts when speech is either disallowed or ...
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Indigenous languages in Canada

, 2017
S. Gessner, T. Herbert, Aliana Parker
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Indigenous Languages of Formosa

2007
Abstract Han Chinese are subgrouped into three: Holo (75 per cent), Hakka (13 per cent), and mainlanders (10 per cent). Their languages are not endangered. The ancestors of the Holo, which is one of their self-appelations, and the Hakka began to migrate to Taiwan in the seventeenth century. The Holo are from the Fujian province and speak
Naomi Tsukida, Shigeru Tsuchida
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Language Endangerment, Language Rights and Indigeneity

2007
Bilingualism, and the ideologies associated with it, are closely tied to social, political and economic circumstances. This is both because the linguistic practices that characterize bilingualism arise out of particular social conditions, which lead people to interact in particular ways in order to live together, and because bilingual practices in turn
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Language Preservation: Strategies for Indigenous Languages

NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT ISSUES IN ARTS AND MANAGEMENT
Indigenous languages are critical to cultural identity, carrying unique worldviews, knowledge systems, and histories. However, these languages are rapidly disappearing due to factors like globalization, urbanization, and intergenerational transmission gaps. This paper discusses strategies for the preservation and revitalization of indigenous languages,
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Indigenous Children’s Language Practices in Australia

2018
AbstractResearch on linguistic ecologies and languages of Indigenous children has examined patterns of language development, shift, innovation, and change, which reveal that all Australian traditional Indigenous languages are endangered. In this paper we reflect on the importance of understanding how children acquire these languages which are often ...
Disbray, Samantha, Wigglesworth, Gillian
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WILL INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES SURVIVE?

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005
Much attention has been focused on the survival of Indigenous languages in recent years. Many, particularly anthropologists and linguists, anticipate the demise of the majority of Indigenous languages within this century and have called on the need to arrest the loss of languages.
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INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE

International Journal of English Learning & Teaching Skills, 2019
Karishma Khan, Amit Ghosh, Rahul Kumar, Sagnik Mitra   +3 more
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