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Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization : An Introduction [PDF]

, 2006
In almost every part of the world, minority languages are being threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and even to revive once-extinct languages. The book presents a comprehensive overview of language endangerment and revitalization.
Tasaku Tsunoda
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Decolonizing the digital landscape: the role of technology in Indigenous language revitalization [PDF]

AlterNative (Nga Pae Maramatanga (Organ)), 2021
Paul J. Meighan
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Impact of digital media on language revitalization: the case of BBC News Igbo [PDF]

Frontiers in Communication
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has identified the Igbo language as critically threatened. The language has low linguistic and social profiles, which make it unappealing to producers and advertisers and ...
Ikechukwu Williams Eke, Abiodun Salawu
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Language, identity, and survival: an ethnographic study on the revitalization of the Limola language in South Sulawesi [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
The Limola language, spoken in Sassa Village, Luwu Utara Regency, South Sulawesi, represents an essential cultural identity and intangible heritage element.
M. Nur Hakim, Wahyu Hidayat, Jusrianto Jusrianto   +2 more
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From Elmolo to Gura Pau: A remembered Cushitic language of Lake Turkana and its possible revitalization

Studies in African Linguistics, 2015
This article discusses the “extinct” Elmolo language of the Lake Turkana area in Kenya. A surprisingly large amount of the vocabulary of this Cushitic language (whose community shifted to Nilotic Samburu in the 20th century), far from being lost and ...
Mauro Tosco
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Language Documentation and Language Revitalization [PDF]

, 2021
Peter K. Austin
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Language Revitalization and the Classroom: Video Workshops at an Elementary School in Miyakojima

Languages, 2022
This paper explores a pedagogy for language revitalization in the specific endangered language context of the Miyakoan language in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Sachiyo Fujita-Round
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Retta language revitalization learning materials in Alor Regency

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya, 2023
Currently there are various learning materials that are able to motivate younger generations in learning local and indigenous languages. One example is the creation of songs in Retta language revitalization program in Alor Regency.
Satwiko Budiono, Evi Noviani
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Language Revitalization [PDF]

, 2017
The world is home to an extraordinary level of linguistic diversity, with roughly 7,000 languages currently spoken and signed. Yet this diversity is highly unstable and is being rapidly eroded through a series of complex and interrelated processes that result in or lead to language loss.
Pine, Aidan, Turin, Mark
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Indigenous Language Revitalization

, 2023
Countless Indigenous languages around the world are the focus of innovative community regeneration efforts, as the legacies of colonialism have created conditions of extreme sociopolitical, educational, and economic adversity for the speakers of these languages—and their descendants. In response to these conditions that Indigenous people face globally,
Guerrettaz, Anne Marie, Engman, Mel
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