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On Old Uyghur Fragments of the Lotus Sutra in the Berlin Turfan Collection
ReligionsThis study provides a comprehensive philological analysis of ten Old Uyghur manuscript fragments of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra (Lotus Sutra) in the Berlin Turfan Collection, while systematically examining all extant Old Uyghur Lotus Sutra manuscripts ...
Ayixiemuguli Tuersun
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Introduction-Minority Language Policy: Theory and Practice [PDF]
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2007 In practice the Charter has created legal standards that work like individual and collective rights and that empower minority language speakers to insist upon education in minority languages, on using the languages before judicial courts and the ...
Stefan Oeter
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The Influence of Constitutional Court Judgments for the Protection of Minority Languages: Italy
Revista de Llengua i Dret - Journal of Language and Law, 2016 The main theme of this paper is the examination of the judgments of Italian and Spanish Constitutional Courts on minority language legislation to show how they had paramount importance to develop legislation in this sector.
Alessia Vacca
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Kritik des neuen Kultes der Minderheitensprachen [PDF]
, 2010 Die Geschichte der Minderheitensprachen in den letzten 200 Jahren ist vielerorts eine Geschichte ihrer Unterdrückung. Im Kontext der Entstehung von Nationalstaaten wurden und werden bis heute die Sprachen der Minderheiten vielfach benachteiligt, zum Teil
Gerhards, Jürgen
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The End of Minority Languages? Europe's Regional Languages in Perspective [PDF]
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2012 The European Union (EU) today counts 23 national languages with as many as 65 regional and minority languages, only a few of which enjoy recognition in the EU.
Michael Hornsby, Timofey Agarin
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Minority languages of China [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter looks at language endangerment in the People's Republic of China, focusing on three of the main factors that influence language maintenance in China today: increased contact due to population movements and changes in the economy; the ...
LaPolla, Randy J., Poa, Dory
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Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez +14 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The Ile181Asn variant of human UDP‐xylose synthase (hUXS1), associated with a short‐stature genetic syndrome, has previously been reported as inactive. Our findings demonstrate that Ile181Asn‐hUXS1 retains catalytic activity similar to the wild‐type but exhibits reduced stability, a looser oligomeric state, and an increased tendency to precipitate ...
Tuo Li +2 more
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INTRODUCING TRANSLATION ACTIVITY: AN IMPLEMENTATION OF LANGUAGE MANTAINENCE IN CLASSROOM [PDF]
, 2012 Multilingual communities have language shift. This ‘shift’ can change the plurality of languages in those communities; it favors the more dominant language and pushes the minority to its death or loss (Holmes: 2001).
Palangan, Barans Irawan
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Review of script displays of African languages by current software
, 2005 All recorded African languages that have a writing system have orthographies which use the Roman or Arabic scripts, with a few exceptions. Whilst Unicode successfully handles the encoding of both these scripts, current software, in particular web ...
Gee, Quintin
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