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Parables in Language Maintenance
The Aboriginal Child at School, 1990The 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, 1994Johann 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
2018The 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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Language Death and Language Maintenance
Sociolinguistica, 1990N. Denison, J. Tragut
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Language maintenance and shift
2013AbstractLanguage shift is the replacement of one language by another as the primary means of communication and socialization within a community. In an effort to understand the factors that contribute to language shift and those which seem to militate against it, this chapter explores several immigrant and non-immigrant contexts around the world, with ...
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