Sentences with phrase «in endangered languages»
Linguist David Harrison sees hidden treasures in endangered languages.
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Instead of highlighting that an EU Export Directives prohibits such exports because the products are not labelled in the appropriate language and so endanger babies, Danone encouraged supermarkets to introduce rationing for all customers across the UK, generating publicity in the mass media and creating panic buying.
«This paper makes the case that endangered Indigenous languages can be repositories for factual knowledge across time depths far greater than previously imagined,» the researchers wrote in their paper, «forcing a rethink of the ways in which such traditions have been dismissed.»
Many people know about the threatened polar bear and extinct passenger pigeon, but few have heard of endangered and extinct languages such as Eyak in Alaska, whose last speaker died in 2008, or Ubykh in Turkey, whose last fluent speaker died in 1992, says Tatsuya Amano, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.
The ancient women also were related to other people who speak the remaining and endangered 75 or so Tungusic languages spoken by dwindling numbers of ethnic people in eastern Siberia and China.
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 languageIn 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 Endangered Languages program, managed jointly by NEH and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has played a role in preserving and revitalizing many endangered languagein preserving and revitalizing many endangered endangered languages.
A year later members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill that would strip federal protections from wolves in the Great Lakes region and Wyoming with language preventing any further judicial review — overruling two court decisions finding that the Fish and Wildlife Service had wrongly removed Endangered Species Act protections for the wolf.
In particular, he aspires to use his pedagogical training to help develop improved teaching and literacy materials for endangered - language communities as part of a life - long commitment to improving the world in terms of language and social justicIn particular, he aspires to use his pedagogical training to help develop improved teaching and literacy materials for endangered - language communities as part of a life - long commitment to improving the world in terms of language and social justicin terms of language and social justice.
1974 > The internet «took off» 1990 > The invention of the web 1990 > The LINGUIST List 1991 > From ASCII to Unicode 1994 > Travlang, travel and languages 1995 > The Internet Dictionary Project 1995 > NetGlos, a glossary of the internet 1995 > Various languages on our screen 1995 > Global Reach, promoting localization 1996 > OneLook Dictionaries, a «fast finder» 1997 > 82.3 % of the web in English 1997 > The internet, a tool for minority languages 1997 > A European terminology database 1997 > Babel Fish, a free translation software 1997 > The tools of the translation company Logos 1997 > Specialized terminology databases 1998 > The need for a «linguistic democracy» 1999 > Bilingual dictionaries in WordReference.com 1999 > The internet, a mandatory tool for translators 1999 > The need for bilingual information online 2000 > Online encyclopedias and dictionaries 2000 > The web portal yourDictionary.com 2000 > Project Gutengerg and languages 2001 > Wikipedia, a collaborative encyclopedia 2001 > UNL, a digital metalanguage project 2001 > A market for language translation software 2004 > The web 2.0, community and sharing 2007 > The ISO 639 - 3 standard to identify languages 2007 > Google Translate 2009 > 6,909 languages in the Ethnologue 2010 > A UNESCO atlas for endangered languages
From the data I've seen and from what I've been told, group 2 (the 6 - 12 a year casual but regular readers) is practically an endangered species in English - language countries.
In the Tswana language, «Marakele» means «haven» or «sanctuary» and that is exactly what it is for some endangered kinds of antelope, like the rare roan antelope.
Susan Hiller: Lost and Found Commissioned by PAMM and making its debut in this exhibition, Hiller's video Lost and Found features an audio collage of voices speaking in 23 different languages, including Aramaic, Comanche, Livonian and other extinct or endangered idioms.
Presented in partnership with Endangered Languages Alliance (Brooklyn), an organization providing opportunities for education and outreach around the preservation of the estimated 800 languages spoken in New York.
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.
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.