Sentences with phrase «endangered languages»
"Endangered languages" refers to languages that are at risk of disappearing or becoming extinct. These are languages that are spoken by a small number of people and are not being passed down to younger generations. They may be in danger due to globalization, cultural assimilation, or lack of support and documentation. Full definition
In a second iteration of the Queens Museum's Large Wall Series, artist Mariam Ghani has created The Garden of Forked Tongues, 2016, a large - scale info - graphic based on data of endangered languages in Queens.
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Linguist David Harrison sees hidden treasures in endangered languages.
YINDAYIN COACHING's mission is to provide quality education to underserved populations preserve endangered language such as Tibetans and to create a platform for Tibetaneducators engage with the international community.
In linguistics, for example, the Documenting Endangered Languages program, managed jointly by NEH and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has played a role in preserving and revitalizing many endangered languages.
Learners discuss some key debates associated with the topic, read an article about endangered languages and discuss prescriptivist and descriptivist approaches.
His work with endangered languages includes a project with click languages in the Kalahari Desert and another with one of Canada's indigenous languages, Gitxsanimaax.
Data on the number and location of surviving fluent speakers of endangered languages are scant, but Amano and colleagues used the most complete source available — an online repository called Ethnologue — for their analysis, he says.
Although the study is silent on the subject of interventions to help preserve endangered languages, there is a range of revitalization efforts that can serve as examples, such as the incorporation of the Hawaiian language into school curricula and daily government operations, she says.
Her Lushootseed font for the Tulalip Tribes of Washington was the first newly designed Native American font to be cut as wood type by the Hamilton Museum and is used in efforts to revive the daily use of the critically endangered language.
Several years ago, Kandler and her colleagues decided to make a mathematical model of the speakers of an endangered language, to provide a kind of test environment for programs that encourage the learning of local languages.
Pentecost Island has five indigenous languages, all from the East Vanuatu language family: Raga (North Pentecost language), Apma (Central Pentecost language), Sowa (a recently extinct language of south - central Pentecost), Ske (a small and endangered language of south - western Pentecost), and Sa (South Pentecost language).
You might want to listen to people speaking in these endangered languages.