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Endangered languages: On endangered languages and the safeguarding of diversity

Language, 1992
Like most people who have done linguistic field work for thirty years or so, I have worked on languages which are now extinct, eight of them in my case, and I have studied, and continue to study, many languages which are seriously imperiled. My experience is far from unusual, and the testimony of field workers alone would amply illustrate the extent of
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Diminishing Diversity of Signed Languages

Science, 2000
Many of the world's 6000 to 7000 spoken languages are threatened with extinction, as Bernice Wuethrich discusses in her News Focus article “Learning the world's languages—before they vanish” (19 May, p. [1156][1]), and their disappearance will cripple attempts to probe the limits of linguistic diversity.
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Islands are engines of language diversity

Nature Ecology & Evolution
Islands have played a prominent role in evolutionary and ecological theory, centring the theoretical framework for understanding biodiversity in terms of isolation and area and providing 'laboratories' of evolutionary change and adaptive radiation. However, a similar role for islands in understanding global language diversity has not been established ...
Lindell Bromham, Keaghan J. Yaxley, Marcel Cardillo   +2 more
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The evolving language of diversity

Nursing Inquiry, 2022
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The Diversity of Language

2021
Pierre Oléron, Raymond P. Lorion
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Language Diversity

2022
Marie Rose Moro, Rahmeth Radjack
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Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome: language and national culture diversity messages as strategic recruiting tools for diverse organizations

International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2023
Jean M Phillips, Kaytlynn R Griswold, Levi K Shiverdecker   +2 more
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Diversity and language policy for endangered languages

2012
Over the last 50 years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for ...
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HUMAN DIVERSITY AND LANGUAGE DIVERSITY

Genetic, Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on Human Diversity in Southeast Asia, 2001
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Biological Diversity and Language Diversity

2017
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, David Harmon
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