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Translation as Language Making in Sign Language Revitalisation [PDF]

VAKKI Publications, 2023
This article highlights the translator's crucial role in the revitalisation of the severely endangered FinlandSwedish Sign Language (FinSSL). By giving voice to professional translators, filling in lexical gaps in FinSSL as part of the translation task,
Maria Andersson-Koski, Lieselott Nordman
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Wymysorys revitalisation theatre: identity and community (re)building [PDF]

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The small town of Wilamowice in southwestern Poland is home to the ethnic group of Vilamovians who speak their own endangered language: Wymysiöeryś. Amateur theatre created by the troupe Ufa fisa has been one of the most important and outwardly visible ...
Justyna Majerska-Sznajder, Joanna Maryniak, Justyna Olko   +2 more
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Ethnolinguistic Vitality Perceptions and Language Revitalisation in Bashkortostan [PDF]

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russification process has mostly ended in the former Soviet Republics and in the present Russian Federation Republics. In some regions, strong mother tongue revitalisation efforts are witnessed. In this article, the relationship between ethnolinguistic vitality perceptions and the language revitalisation ...
Kutlay Yagmur
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Language teacher identity and language acquisition in a South Saami preschool: A narrative inquiry

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022
This paper explores language teacher identity (LTI) among three preschool teachers. The focus lies on the preschool teachers’ identities as linguistic role models by means of analysing their own descriptions of language learning, that is, their personal
David Kroik
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Language Description, Documentation and Revitalisation of Languages in Malaysia

Journal of Modern Languages, 2020
Peter Austin, Stefanie Pillai
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Creating a corpus for Kven, a minority language in Norway

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022
Language documentation, including the development and use of corpora, is frequently linked to revitalisation. This is also the case for the Kven language, a Finnic minoritised language, traditionally spoken in the two northernmost counties of Norway ...
Pia Lane, Kristin Hagen, Anders Nøklestad, Joel Priestley   +3 more
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Introducing a Polynomic Approach in Ryukyuan Language Learning

Languages, 2022
The polynomic model as a model of language codification treats regional and social variation within language as inherently good and does not hierarchise this variation.
Gijs Van der Lubbe
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Giellariššu: Indigenous language revitalisation in the city

Multiethnica: Journal of the Hugo Valentin Centre, 2021
https://doi.org/10.33063/diva ...
Outakoski, Hanna-Máret, Vangsnes, Øystein A.   +1 more
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Examining Language Development and Revitalisation Initiatives

Journal of Modern Languages, 2020
This article examines development and revitalisation initiatives for the Bidayuh language, spoken in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Bidayuh has six main variants which are not mutually intelligible.
Patricia Nora Riget, Yvonne Michelle Campbell   +1 more
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Réflexions sur la dichotomie entre néolocuteurs et locuteurs natifs/traditionnels dans le cadre de la revitalisation des langues minoritaires : vers un nouveau discours inclusif

Lengas, 2021
The phenomenon of newspeakerism is discussed within the context of minority languages in the light of the native/non-native speaker dichotomy. Tracing the colonial origins of the concept of the native speaker reveals how the divide is underpinned by an ...
Robert Neal Baxter
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