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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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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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Rating the vitality of sign languages
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014The Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS), developed by Lewis and Simons and based on work by Fishman, provides a means of rating ‘language vitality’ – the level of development or endangerment – where ‘development’ is understood as adding or preserving functions and ‘endangerment’ as loss of function.
J. Albert Bickford +2 more
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Vitality and endangerment of the Lalo language
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2015This 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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The digital language vitality scale: a model for assessing digital vitality of languages [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, we present the Digital Language Vitality Scale, a tool for measuring the degree of digital vitality of languages. Digital vitality can be defined as the extent to which a language is present, used and usable over the Internet through digital devices. The scale is inspired to ethnolinguistic vitality assessment (such as GIDS, Fishman 2001)
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Linguistic Landscape and Language Vitality
2010The chapter analyzes the urban linguistic landscapes as conditions of linguistic vitality in an area, especially for immigrant languages located and visible in some Italian cities (Rome, Florence, etc.).
BARNI M, BAGNA C
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The Vitality of Minority Languages in Malaysia
Oceanic Linguistics, 2017This article looks at the ethnolinguistic vitality of some of the most important language varieties spoken in Malaysia, focusing on two languages as case studies: Bidayuh and Mah Meri, respectively the language of one of the indigenous groups in East Malaysia and the language of one of the indigenous groups of peninsular Malaysia.
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On the vitality of Sardinian as a heritage language
Abstract This investigation focuses on the analysis of the vitality of Sardinian varieties in migration contexts and discusses the use of corpus linguistics methodologies to highlight the outcomes of language contact phenomena in the heritage scenarios.Pisano, Simone +2 more
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Language endangerment and vitality
Abstract This chapter considers the current status of the Bantu languages in relation to language endangerment, which has resulted from the multiplication and resultant contact between the Bantu languages themselves and between them and non-Bantu languages over the last 3,500 years of expansion into central, eastern, and southern ...openaire +1 more source
British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, 2010
Valerie Jones grew up in Bethal Caernarfon, in Gwynedd, Wales, where she still lives with her husband, Dewi. She has been a healthcare assistant (HCA) for 4 years, and before this she was a full-time mum to her two sons, Matthew, 12, and Ben, 11.
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Valerie Jones grew up in Bethal Caernarfon, in Gwynedd, Wales, where she still lives with her husband, Dewi. She has been a healthcare assistant (HCA) for 4 years, and before this she was a full-time mum to her two sons, Matthew, 12, and Ben, 11.
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