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Proposal for encoding Myanmar characters for Karen and Kayah in the UCS [PDF]

, 2006
This is a proposal to add characters to the international character encoding standard Unicode for minority languages using the Myanmar script. These additions were published in Unicode Standard version 5.1 in March 2008.
Everson, Michael, Hosken, Martin
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Ghana language-in-education policy: The survival of two South Guan minority dialects

Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2015
The paper investigates the survival of two South-Guan minority dialects, Leteh and Efutu, in the context of the Ghana language-in-education policy. The study is done from the perspective of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Linguistic Rights (1996). In
Ansah, Mercy Akrofi , Agyeman, Nana Ama
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Lost in translation: the problems of using mainstream MT evaluation metrics for sign language translation [PDF]

, 2006
In this paper we consider the problems of applying corpus-based techniques to minority languages that are neither politically recognised nor have a formally accepted writing system, namely sign languages.
Morrissey, Sara, Way, Andy
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In all languages? How minority languages are excluded from scholarly publishing

Insights: The UKSG Journal
English may have become the lingua franca of academia, but there are good grounds for preserving linguistic diversity in scholarly communication, including public engagement and impact generation at a local level.
Huw Grange
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Shirt and the Happy Man: Theory and Politics in Ethnic Minority Writing [PDF]

, 1996
Ethnic minority writing in Canada was once a neglected field not only by Canadianists promoting a canon for a national literature, but also by theorists who focused on the great works from major European languages as the standards for explaining all the ...
Pivato, Joseph J.
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Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS [PDF]

, 2007
This is a proposal to add several Cyrillic characters to the international character encoding standard Unicode. These additions were published in Unicode Standard version 5.1 in March 2008. This proposal includes characters used for various communities,
Birnbaum, David, Cleminson, Ralph, Derzhanski, Ivan, Dorosh, Vladislav, Everson, Michael, Kryukov, Alexej, Paliga, Sorin   +6 more
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Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: Re-framing minority language use in social media

Adeptus, 2019
Virtual communities as breathing spaces for minority languages: Re-framing minority language use in social media Considering that social media is increasingly present in our daily communicative exchanges, digital presence is an essential component of ...
Guillem Belmar, Maggie Glass
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Kun-dangwok: ''clan lects'' and Ausbau in western Arnhem Land [PDF]

, 2016
The sociolinguistic concept of an Ausbau language is widely thought of as exclusively associated with the standardization of languages for the political and social purposes of nation states.
Garde, Murray
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Problemy interdyscyplinarnych badań nad tłumaczeniami na języki mniejsze: kaszubski i śląski (na przykładzie Le Petit Prince Antoine’a de Saint-Exupéry’ego)

Między Oryginałem a Przekładem
PROBLEMS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON TRANSLATIONS INTO MINORITY LANGUAGES: KASHUBIAN AND SILESIAN (ON THE EXAMPLE THE LITTLE PRINCE BY ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY) This article analyzes issues related to the interdisciplinary study of translations ...
Julia Włodarska
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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education? [PDF]

This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority students’ demand for, as well as opportunities to ...
Muravyev, Alexander, Talavera, Oleksandr
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