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Tongues on the EDGE: language preservation priorities based on threat and lexical distinctiveness [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2017
Languages are being lost at rates exceeding the global loss of biodiversity. With the extinction of a language we lose irreplaceable dimensions of culture and the insight it provides on human history and the evolution of linguistic diversity.
Nicolas Perrault   +2 more
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Libraries and language preservation

open access: yesJournal of New Librarianship, 2020
This column proposes that schools of Library Science (as well as Museum Studies and related disciplines) can contribute to language preservation and advance their own financial interests by presenting themselves as key collaborators in language ...
Race MoChridhe
doaj   +3 more sources

LANGUAGE SHIFT IN KONJO COMMUNITY

open access: yesIJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics), 2023
One local language that is the object of preservation is the Konjo language in Bulukumba Regency. The Konjo language is interesting to study further in maintaining language to determine whether the Konjo tribe in Bulukumba Regency still maintains the ...
Dwiani Septiana   +3 more
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Operations Preserving Recognizable Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Given a subset S of ℕ, filtering a word a 0 a 1...a n by S consists in deleting the letters a i such that i is not in S. By a natural generalization, denote by L[S], where L is a language, the set of all words of L filtered by S. The filtering problem is to characterize the filters S such that, for every recognizable language L, L[S] is recognizable ...
Berstel, Jean   +4 more
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Reusing the structure of the PORTLEX dictionary to create a contrastive dictionary of Romance languages: a proposal.

open access: yesQuaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2023
This paper proposes the development of a multilingual online dictionary for the Romance languages, called DiCoRom, using an integrative, cross-lingual and pedagogical approach.
Carlos Valcárcel Riveiro
doaj   +1 more source

Моделирование конкуренции языков

open access: yesСовременные информационные технологии и IT-образование, 2023
В статье рассмотрены различные модели языковой динамики и гипотезы их построения. Рассмотрены результаты наложения уже имеющихся моделей на реальные статистические данные и результаты их описания.
Медведев, А.В.   +1 more
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Preserving Endangered Languages [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, 2007
Abstract Over the last few decades an increasing number of books, scholarly articles and media reports have predicted that as many as 60 to 90% of the world's some 6900 languages may be at risk of extinction within the next 100 years. This article provides an overview of the current state of the world's languages, explains some causes
openaire   +1 more source

A Program for the Preservation and Revitalization of the Languages of Russia

open access: yesRussian Journal of Linguistics, 2021
This article presents the Program for the Preservation and Revitalization of the Languages of Russia proposed by the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (the Program).
Andrej A. Kibrik
doaj   +1 more source

Multiculturalism, Autonomy, and Language Preservation [PDF]

open access: yesErgo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2019
In this paper, I show how a novel treatment of speech acts can be combined with a well-known liberal argument for multiculturalism in a way that will justify claims about the preservation, protection, or accommodation of minority languages. The key to the paper is the claim that every language makes a distinctive range of speech acts possible, acts ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Modular Composition of Language Features through Extensions of Semantic Language Models [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Today, programming or specification languages are often extended in order to customize them for a particular application domain or to refine the language definition. The extension of a semantic model is often at the centre of such an extension.
Pahl, Claus
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