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Language and Linguistics Compass, 2009
Abstract African language classification in the latter half of the 20th century has been dominated by Joseph Greenberg's work classifying African languages into four linguistic genetic groupings: Afroasiatic, Niger‐Kordofanian, Nilo‐Saharan, and Khoisan.
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Abstract African language classification in the latter half of the 20th century has been dominated by Joseph Greenberg's work classifying African languages into four linguistic genetic groupings: Afroasiatic, Niger‐Kordofanian, Nilo‐Saharan, and Khoisan.
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2017
Linguistic diversity has become a hot topic in linguistic research, and a core issue for policy makers and organisations; however, public discourse of linguistic diversity does not normally involve a critical definition ofdiversityitself.Theaimofthisarticleisthentoproposea deconstruction of the notion of linguistic diversity.
Mauri, Caterina e Arcodia, Giorgio
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Linguistic diversity has become a hot topic in linguistic research, and a core issue for policy makers and organisations; however, public discourse of linguistic diversity does not normally involve a critical definition ofdiversityitself.Theaimofthisarticleisthentoproposea deconstruction of the notion of linguistic diversity.
Mauri, Caterina e Arcodia, Giorgio
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2011
The discipline of linguistics can be defined as the systematic study of language(s), its nature, its structure and the variation in and between languages. Language permeates, gives direction to and in many ways determines human experience. Linguistics as a discipline is closely related to sociology, anthropology and psychology.
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The discipline of linguistics can be defined as the systematic study of language(s), its nature, its structure and the variation in and between languages. Language permeates, gives direction to and in many ways determines human experience. Linguistics as a discipline is closely related to sociology, anthropology and psychology.
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2022
There is an old adage that states, “Languages have armies and dialects don't.” This articulates a common belief that those who speak an “inferior” language are often marginalized and lack political power. This chapter is an evaluation of the use of Nigerian Pidgin English and the discriminatory societal views associated with Nigerian Pidgin English ...
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There is an old adage that states, “Languages have armies and dialects don't.” This articulates a common belief that those who speak an “inferior” language are often marginalized and lack political power. This chapter is an evaluation of the use of Nigerian Pidgin English and the discriminatory societal views associated with Nigerian Pidgin English ...
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River density and landscape roughness are universal determinants of linguistic diversity [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 Jacob Böck Axelsen, Susanna C Manrubia
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Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity
1999Some recent Artificial Life models have attempted to explain the origin of linguistic diversity with varying conclusions and explanations. We posit, contrary to some existing Artificial Life work, that linguistic diversity should naturally emerge in spatially organised populations of language learners, and this is supported by our experimental work and
Daniel Livingstone, Colin Fyfe
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Global linguistic diversity for the internet
Communications of the ACM, 2005The Script Encoding Initiative wants to encode the world's unencoded scripts, making electronic text communication possible for millions of native speakers.
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Linguistic Justice vs. Linguistic Diversity
Philological Encounters, 2016The linguistic uniformity of Europe (or the globe) is currently enforced not only by powerful economic and political forces but also by sociologists and social philosophers. At first, the learning of global English was only considered to be a necessary professional skill, then, the positive connotations of “plurilingualism” were evoked for fostering ...
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1999
Abstract There are some 6,500 different languages in the world, belonging to around 250 distinct families and conforming to numerous grammatical types. This book explains why. Given that the biological mechanisms underlying language are the same in all normal human beings, would we not be a more successful species if we spoke one ...
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Abstract There are some 6,500 different languages in the world, belonging to around 250 distinct families and conforming to numerous grammatical types. This book explains why. Given that the biological mechanisms underlying language are the same in all normal human beings, would we not be a more successful species if we spoke one ...
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Mapping urban linguistic diversity with social media and population register data
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2022Tuomas Vaisanen +2 more
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