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Language Minorities and Language Maintenance

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
The position of minority groups and the maintenance of their languages are very much in the news today. For (largely) indigenous minorities, consider the case of continental Europe: As it moves—sometimes erratically—towards federalism, its minorities and its “stateless” peoples are pressing for increased and improved recognition.
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Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2006
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: By David Bradley and Maya Bradley. eds. London. RoutledgeCurzon (Taylor and Francis Group). 2002.
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Language Death and Language Maintenance

2003
Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance.
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Language shift or maintenance

Language Problems and Language Planning, 2017
AbstractPakistan is a multilingual country with six major and over 59 minor languages. However, the languages used by the domains of power, (government, corporate sector, media and education), are English and Urdu. Compared to the other regional languages in Pakistan, the Sindhi language has a more emancipated position in the state-run schools and some
Maya Khemlani David, Mumtaz Ali, Gul Muhammad Baloch   +2 more
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Language Maintenance and Language Death

2012
This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations.
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Language maintenance and language shift in Taiwan

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Abstract When the Nationalist government first took over administrative control of Taiwan in 1945, the major languages spoken by the people of Taiwan were the Chinese dialects Hakka and Southern Min, and Japanese. A national language, Mandarin, has since then been actively promoted.
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Language Maintenance on the Internet

Educational Media International, 2004
Due to the expanding use of computer networks in Hungary, the Hungarian language has become a grown‐up member of the World Wide Web and the Internet. In the past few years, the number of web pages written in Hungarian has significantly increased, since all areas of business, science, education, culture, etc., are eager to make use of the evolving new ...
Judit Hajnal Ward, László Agócs
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Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Dominica

Caribbean Quarterly, 1982
(1982). Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Dominica. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 41-51.
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Parables in Language Maintenance

The Aboriginal Child at School, 1990
The maintenance, or in some cases revival, of Aboriginal languages has become an important issue to Aboriginal people, and should be an important issue in Aboriginal schools if local people show concern about it. There is good reason for this concern. Predictions vary among linguists about how vulnerable Aboriginal languages are.
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The Ecology of Language Maintenance

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1981
Three factors have been identified as affecting one's ability to maintain his/her minority mother-tongue in a metropolitan area: proportion the minority mother-tongue group forms of the total metropolitan population, its degree of residential segregation, and the absolute number of people in the minority mother-tongue group. Each factor is an indicator
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