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Language Revival in France

Language Problems and Language Planning, 1989
RESUMO Lingva revivigo en Francio: La regionaj idiomoj Per akceptiĝo de la Rezolucio Kuijper en 1987, la eŭropaj regionaj lingvoj ŝoviĝis en la unuan vicon. Analizo de la situacio en Francio bone ilustras la demandon, ĉar tiu lando entenas ene de siaj limoj ne malpli ol sep regionajn lingvojn, kaj montriĝis aparte malema agnoski la rajtojn de ...
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Language Revitalization and Revival

2014
This chapter points out that assumptions about teaching an official language in school (standardized form, correct usage and spelling, formal genres and contexts) do not meet the more immediate needs of Native American communities: language as a bond between kin and community; informal and formal language use in a variety of contexts; dialect variation.
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Language Maintenance and Revival

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Johann 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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Gaelic cultural revival or language decline?

Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1995
Abstract The late 1980s and early 1990s have appeared to signal a revival in interest in the Gaelic culture. New television programmes, education opportunities and attendance at arts and music events suggest that Gaelic is once again seen as important to a significant minority of the Scottish population.
Robert J. Rogerson, Amanda Gloyer
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Reviving a Dying Language

The Modern Language Journal, 1945
A N ESSENTIAL part of the educational aim of the Irish Government as announced in 1922 was "the strengthening of the national fibre by giving the language, history, music and tradition of Ireland their natural place in the life of Irish Schools." The foundation for the attainment of this aim is, of course, the teaching of the language. As most teachers
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Language Revival in Australia

2018
The survival of Australian languages is increasingly apparent to the wider population in dual naming, publications, and performance, while media frequently feature good news stories about languages being “saved.” Revival languages are increasingly taught in schools, and the formation of small groups of adult social speakers has been reported from ...
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'Minority' Languages and Literary Revivals

Past & Present, 2004
L'A. examine la renaissance des langues minoritaires en Europe a travers la litterature. En analysant le cas particulier du catalan, il veut montrer que, d'une maniere plus generale, la renaissance litteraire d'une langue minoritaire n'entraine pas forcement la preservation de cette langue ni la restauration de son statut de langue ...
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Egyptian Language (Routledge Revivals)

2013
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the trustees of the British Museum: numbering into the ...
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Liberalism, Language Revival and Employment

Political Studies, 2011
Do policies that seek to revive the prospects of minority languages transgress important liberal principles? The article will explore this question by focusing on one controversial aspect of language policy in Wales: the steps taken to set Welsh language requirements for some jobs in the public sector. This is a practice that has generated substantial
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Language Shift and Language Revival in Ireland

2016
Revivalists faced a momentous challenge to achieve the aims of a bilingual Ireland, reinstating the spoken Irish language, and adapting it to urban structures of ‘the worlds of commerce, politics, official religion, the professions and printed word’, from which it had been banished ‘as a result of complex socio-economic and political circumstances ...
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