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Language change for the worse [PDF]

open access: yes
Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard   +16 more
core   +20 more sources

Language Shift and Maintenance: A Case Study of the Telugu Community in Bagan Datoh, Perak (Malaysia)

open access: yesJournal of Modern Languages, 2023
Telugu is an official language, commonly spoken in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. Despite being one of the largest languages in the world, it is a minority language in Malaysia.
Kathreine Deva Babu Polamarachetty   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The Objective and Subjective Ethnolinguistic Vitality of West Frisian: Promotion and Perception of a Minority Language in the Netherlands

open access: yesDarnioji daugiakalbystė, 2020
The study presented here is the first contemporary investigation of the subjective compared to the objective ethnolinguistic vitality of West Frisian. West Frisian is a minority language spoken in the province of Fryslân, in the north of the Netherlands.
Kuipers-Zandberg Helga, Kircher Ruth
doaj   +1 more source

vitality

open access: yes, 2023
To quantify the urban vitality of Chongqing's main urban area before and after the unsealing of the epidemic, and to analyze the characteristics of the changes, in order to provide important data support and targeted ideas and methods for the economic ...
zhao (16977453)
core   +1 more source

Linguistic landscape of Mojosari: Language policy, language vitality and commodification of language

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
This current article presents the linguistic landscape in Mojosari, Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia. The existing linguistic landscape studies in East Java merely focus on the pattern of the use of various languages in certain areas.
Zuliati Rohmah, Eka Widya Nur Wijayanti
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing linguistic vulnerability and endangerment in Serbia a critical survey of methodologies and outcomes [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica, 2020
The paper offers a critical survey of vulnerable and endangered languages and linguistic varieties in Serbia presented in three international inventories: UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, Ethnologue and The Catalogue of ...
Sorescu-Marinković Annemarie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Projections for Sámi in Norway

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022
The paper presents three different projections of the future number of Sámi language users in Norway based on the contemporary number of children receiving instruction in Sámi in the Norwegian school system, either North, Lule or South Sámi.
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes
doaj   +1 more source

Minimum data set prototype Urban Vitality: 'Gezond ouder worden / Mensen in beweging’

open access: yes, 2020
An example for the development of a potential Minimum Data Set (MDS) within the Urban Vitality (UV) themes ‘Gezond ouder worden / Mensen in Beweging’.
van Ulzen, Niek, de Jong, Anne
core   +1 more source

Digital vitality of Uralic languages [PDF]

open access: yesActa Linguistica Academica, 2017
We investigate the digital vitality of Uralic languages and dialects, and discuss how existing approaches to language revitalization relate to this model.
Ács, Judit   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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