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Language (re)vitalization

Language Problems and Language Planning, 2023
Abstract Many small languages are in danger of extinction. How to stop and reverse this process is an important topic in the sociolinguistic literature. In addition to the revitalization of languages, there are also some examples of vitalizing (bringing to use) “new” languages, for example the introduction of Ivrit (modern Hebrew) in ...
Bengt-Arne Wickström   +3 more
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Language Revitalization and Vitality

2019
The area of the Pacific Northwest region that is now Idaho, Oregon, and Washington is home to a great diversity of languages and dialects. Native languages are returning to daily use within Northwest tribal communities, and language vitality, often described only in terms of the decline in the number of fluent elders who grew up speaking their ...
Joana Jansen   +2 more
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A Place for All Languages: On Language Vitality and Revitalization

Museum International, 2008
Many languages are vanishing forever and with them a wealth of human knowledge. Languages disappear when people stop using them.
Akira Yamamoto   +2 more
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Lexicogenesis and language vitality

<i>WORD</i>, 1994
AbstractAs exemplified in the case of Contemporary Metropolitan French, spontaneous indigenous lexical creativity is a natural adaptive survival strategy for a language in the earlier (and intermediate) stages of its domination with regards to a competing language and culture.
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Assessing language vitality

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Abstract Assessment of a language is about the evaluation of its vitality. To understand the vitality of a language, a language community should be assessed every few decades, so that the success of any revitalization program can be evaluated according to its vitality index ...
Gunti Prem Sagar, Anindita Sahoo
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Vitality and endangerment of the Lalo language

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2015
This paper aims to discuss the vitality and endangerment of Lalo, a Lolo-Burmese language spoken in Yunnan province in southwest China. Analysis of the data collected during the survey of the use of the Lalo language in Xiaowan area shows that this minority language is definitely endangered.
Zhou Tingsheng, Hu Suhua
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