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Language Maintenance and Family Language Policy

2022
One of the most significant contributions of this book to the field is bringing together various interdisciplinary perspectives on the same topic to gain a deeper insight into the role of families in the acculturation process, language maintenance and shift.
Kutlay Yagmur, Fons J. R. van de Vijver
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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 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 maintenance and language shift: community languages in Australia, 1996

People and place, 1998
There is a continuing significant shift to English spoken in the home among Australia’s established community language groups. There are also success stories in language maintenance. Factors influencing language use include the distribution of speakers, the age profile of the community, intermarriage patterns and cultural distance from Anglo ...
M, Clyne, S, Kipp
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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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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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Language Maintenance and Revival

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Johann Gottfreid Herder illustrated how problematic language maintenance predictions can be with his prediction in his essay,On the Origin of Languages, stating that Hungarian would briefly disappear from the surface of the earth as if it had never existed.
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Planning Minority Language Maintenance

2018
The concept of language “minority” derives largely from the idea of national standard language which developed as part of the nation-state system and its constant search for homogenization. Those who remained outside the processes of linguistic convergence to the standard (for whatever reason) were designated “minority.” They were salient in a ...
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