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Modeling language shift. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Languages behave similarly to living species. They display diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear. While processes of differentiation happen at a relatively slow rate with a typical timescale of the order of 1,000 years to evolve into different languages, language extinction takes place at a substantially faster rate.
Kandler A, Steele J.
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Sindhi in Malaysia-Language maintenance or language shift?
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 This article will discuss whether the Sindhi community of Malaysia is experiencing language shift or maintaining the use of the ancestral language, Sindhi. The traditional questionnaire methodology based on the domain construct (cf.
Maya Khemlani David
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LANGUAGE SHIFT IN KONJO COMMUNITY
IJOTL-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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The Status of Turkish among Female Students in Migrant Turkish Families Living in Baharestan City [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 The present study investigates the status of Turkish among female students living in Baharestan in Tehran province whose parents are Turkish speakers and have already migrated to this city.
Kourosh Saberi, Katayoun Ranjbar
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Promoting the Use of Okinawan by New Speakers: An Analysis of Honorific Choices in the Family Domain
Languages, 2022 Linguistic insecurity about polite registers constitutes a serious barrier for any new speakers specifically in settings between parents and children or between married couples.
Tomoko Arakaki
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Language maintenance: Factors supporting the use and maintenance of isiZulu in Soshanguve
Literator, 2023 This article aims at investigating how isiZulu speakers residing in Soshanguve report on the use of their ethnic language, isiZulu, and to use the outcomes to confirm how their language continues to be powerfully maintained in Soshanguve.
Nontobeko T. Mbatha +2 more
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THE SHIFT OF ACEHNESE LANGUAGE IN PULAU KAMPAI COMMUNITY, NORTH SUMATRA
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2018 This Study deals with “The Shift of Acehnese Language in Pulau Kampai Community”.The aims of this research are: (1) to obtain the reasons of language shifting that has happened in Pulau Kampai?
Chairuddin Chairuddin
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Problems of the Languages Vitality of the Peoples of Russian Federation in Past and Present
Научный диалог, 2020 The issues related to the problems of vitality of the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation are discussed in the article. It is noted that the solution to these problems was at a low level during the USSR period, and at present there are no ...
E. A. Kondrashkina
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Language Accommodation in Speak Communities in Banyumas District
Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2023 Language diversity gives rise to language phenomena (language contact, language borrowing, language shift, language maintenance and language accommodation).
Gita Anggria Resticka +2 more
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Dynamics of the number of Chuvash speakers on the basis of the 2002–2021 Russian population censuses
Этническая культура, 2023 The situation of the Chuvash language in the Russian Federation is presented in the light of the 2020 population census. The aim of the study is to understand whether the tempos of the language shift have changed compared to the previous decade.
Ektor Alos-i-Font
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