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Is Yorùbá an Endangered Language?
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005 The phenomenon of language death is real. The phrase ‘language death’ may sound stark and unwelcome, but its grappling muscles on the throat of the Yoruba language have terrible, unannounced and unnoticed suffocating effects.
Felix Abidemi Fabuni, Akeem Segun Salawu
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The Dynamics of Language Endangerment
SibiricaAbstract Most languages spoken by the “small-numbered indigenous peoples of the North” are currently highly endangered or extinct, yet there are big differences in vitality between languages and even dialects. I here discuss the factors that have shaped the current levels of endangerment of three Northern Tungusic lects: the Lamunkhin dialect of Even ...
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Pathways and pitfalls: a qualitative study of student experiences in biomedical science education
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Biomedical science students from underrepresented backgrounds face barriers including financial strain, disrupted laboratory access and cultural exclusion. Peer networks provide vital support when institutional systems are difficult to navigate. To create inclusive learning environments and achieve academic success, educators should blend active, hands‐
Olivia J. Russell +8 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Miniaturized flow chip platform enabling continuous perfusion and longitudinal multiphoton 3D imaging of vascular smooth muscle cell constructs under physiological flow. Brightfield imaging guides region selection, while CellTracker Green and mRuby‐labeled fetuin‐A visualize cells and mineral deposition, respectively. Magnesium supplementation markedly
Vytautas Kučikas +6 more
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Language Endangerment
, 2022 Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. SOAS Linguistics webinars Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Language Endangerment Lindell Bromham ...
Brohmham, Meakins
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Language contact, language endangerment, and the role of the ‘salvation linguist’
Language Documentation and Description, 2005 In the first part of this paper I address concerns in respect of certain images and notions that surround the current agenda of the study of endangered languages. In particular, I question the usefulness of, and point out some risks attached to, the self-
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Lactoferrin promotes wound healing by activating MAPK, PI3K/Akt, and extracellular matrix pathways, enhancing fibroblast remodeling, proliferation, and re‐epithelialization. These mechanisms highlight its therapeutic potential in inflammation control, tissue repair, and remodeling.
Morgana Lüdtke Azevedo +4 more
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Simultaneous Visualization of Language Endangerment and Language Description [Elektronisk resurs]
, 2018 The world harbors a diversity of some 6,500 mutually unintelligible languages. As has been increasingly observed by linguists, many minority languages are becoming endangered and will be lost forever if not documented.
Forkel, Robert, +5 more
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Counting the losses: numbers as the language of language endangerment
, 2010 This paper provides a set of critical reflections on the use(s) of numbers to communicate facts about the changing dynamics of speech communities undergoing language shift.
Pietikäinen, Sari +8 more
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Language endangerment, language documentation and capacity building: challenges from New Guinea
Language Documentation and Description, 2004 The New Guinea region, with its extreme linguistic diversity, over a thousand languages in a land area of 900,000 km, presents the urgent task of language documentation with an especially demanding challenge.
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