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Ideologies behind the scoring of factors to rate sign language vitality [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage and Communication, 2020
This article examines ideologies underlying the rating of sign language vitality. The discussion is based on a 2011 survey by UNESCO and the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, and a newer survey by UNESCO, released in 2018 ...
Josefina Safar, Jenny Webster
exaly   +2 more sources

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 ...
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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