Sentences with phrase «of endangered languages»

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.

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.

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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.

20 Another sound of silence: More than one - third of the world's 6,800 spoken languages are endangered.

«Documentation of endangered minority languages such as Jedek is important, as it provides new insights into human cognition and culture,» says Joanne Yager, doctoral student at Lund University.

«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.

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.

Researchers estimate that most of the few remaining Native American languages are endangered.

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 justice.

More than 90 % of Australia's Indigenous languages are critically endangered and two - thirds of those languages spoken a hundred years ago are now dormant.

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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.

He is currently touring two endangered language films: Khonsay: A Poem of Many Tongues, with each line from a different endangered / minority tongue; and Language Matters with Bob Holman, a two - hour PBS special produced / directed by David Grubin.

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.

Hiller's explores the polylingual nature of today's lived experiences within urban environments, embracing cultural translation by weaving together 23 different languages such as Arabic, Livonian and endangered idioms.

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.

Severn lives on Haida Gwaii with her family where they are learning the critically endangered Xaayda kil (Skidegate dialect of the Haida language) from elders.

With few fluent speakers, some of these languages are considered endangered.

Recommendation 7: Utilise the expertise of the national body to assess the required resources for critically endangered languages and commit these resources immediately.

At: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~romaine/vvoices.html (Viewed 3 July 2009); and UNESCO Atlas of World's Endangered languages 2009.

The policy is likely to dismantle bilingual education and potentially endanger some of the remaining Indigenous languages.