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Revivalistics is Not Documentary Linguistics

Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2021
This article introduces a new field of enquiry called revivalistics, and explores its trans-disciplinarity and various ethical, aesthetic and utilitarian benefits.
Zuckermann Ghil’ad
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"Flogging a Dead Cow?"

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2002
The paper explores how Chingoni, a language of the conquering Ngoni, lost out to Chitumbuka and Chichewa, the languages of the conquered Tumbuka and Chewa respectively, as a language of everyday communication to the extent of being moribund.
Pascal J. Kishindo
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De Budyšin (Allemagne, RDA, RFA) à Serbin (USA). Vers une glottopolitique « engagée » de l’espace sorabe ?

Glottopol, 2022
While revitalization processes are based primarily on language, they nevertheless allow the group to express a “particular reading of the world”, as James Costa has shown (2018).
Hélène Yèche
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Codificació del microcorpus en la recuperació de l'hebreu

Digithum, 2003
En aquest article, l'autor analitza la tasca de codificació lèxica duta a terme en el període de recuperació de l'hebreu modern. Es pot considerar que la recuperació de l'hebreu modern comprèn tres períodes, en cada un dels quals s'ha intentat aconseguir
Moshe Nahir
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Antonín Jan Jungmann, obrozenec a porodník

Cornova, 2023
Historiographical research into Antonín Jan Jungmann (1775–1854) has been somewhat overshadowed by his older brother Josef Jungmann, one of the leading figures of the Czech national revival.
Petra Hanáková
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What is the Role and Nature of Language and Language Development? [PDF]

, 2020
In this paper, the role and nature of language and language development will be discussed. Research and theory in second language acquisition has demonstrated that (i) language is an abstract, implicit and complex system.
Alessandro Benati, Benati, A
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Language death and revival: Cornish as a minority language in UK

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2013
The paper introduces the worldwide phenomenon of language death, and briefly elaborates on the arguments for saving endangered languages. The main focus of the paper is revived Cornish. Cornish is a Celtic language that was spoken in Cornwall, UK between
Zsuzsanna Renkó-Michelsén
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“It’s Braw to Ride Round and Follow the Camp” The Linguistic Journey of a Scots Song, with an Irish Soldier, through Space and Time Valentina Bold

Traditiones, 2021
This article considers one song, “The Bonny Lass o Fyvie”, in examples from Scotland, England, and North America. As it moves between language areas – from Scots language into English, Ulster-Scots and American English – there are significant shifts in ...
Valentina Bold
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Livonian – the most endangered language in Europe?

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
Drawing on my experience as General Editor of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, as well as my own research interest in the Livonian language, the situation of Livonian is here compared with that of some other threatened languages of ...
Christopher Moseley
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Irish Diaspora, Cultural Activism and Print Media in Transatlantic Contexts between Ireland and North America c. 1857-1887

Studi Irlandesi, 2019
This paper examines ideas, concepts, and theories, in relation to the revival of the Irish language as a transatlantic venture c.1857-1887 focusing on print media and cultural organisations in the United States.
Fiona Lyons
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