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Digital Language Death [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. Here we argue that this consensus figure vastly underestimates the danger of digital language death, in that less than 5% of all languages can still ascend
A Hiddinga   +10 more
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Different loan sources as a reason for variability of some Estonian dialect words [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Among other reasons, the phonetic variability of loanwords in Estonian dialects may reflect their origination from different but etymologically connected sources of borrowing.
Metsmägi, Iris   +2 more
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Patterns of genetic connectedness between modern and medieval Estonian genomes reveal the origins of a major ancestry component of the Finnish population. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Hum Genet, 2021
Kivisild T   +21 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Relative Importance of the European Languages [PDF]

open access: yes
The European Union has introduced a “two foreign languages policy” with little solid knowledge of the consequences. I attempt in this paper to provide some facts for a serious discussion of language policy.
Chr. Hjorth-Andersen
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TV or not TV? Subtitling and English skills [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the influence of television translation techniques on the quality of the English spoken across the EU and OCDE. We identify a large positive effect for subtitled original version as opposed to dubbed television, which loosely corresponds to ...
Albert Banal-Estañol   +2 more
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Dynamics of ethnic structures in the Baltic States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The aim of this article is to present changes in the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and to analyse the demographic developments of the titular ethnicities and ethnic minorities.
Bērziņš, Atis, Zvidriņš, Pēteris
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