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Requires that Native American language survival schools: (1) provide an average of at least 500 hours of instruction per year per student through the use of at least one Native American language for at least 15 students for whom the school is their principal school; (2) develop instructional courses and materials that service the goal of making ...
From 2007–2012, funding for language instruction in public schools has been made available through the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act, signed by President George W. Bush on December 14, 2006, to prevent the loss of heritage and culture. [12] "Since 2000, 390 grants have been awarded under the program for a total of ...
Language preservation is the preservation of endangered or dead languages. With language death , studies in linguistics , anthropology , prehistory and psychology lose diversity. [ 1 ] As history is remembered with the help of historic preservation , language preservation maintains dying or dead languages for future studies in such fields.
The United States does not have a comprehensive federal language policy or an official national language.The status of a national language of the United States is a contentious political debate, and many bills establishing English as the official language of the United States have been sponsored in Congress, though none have been passed into law.
Language revitalization, also referred to as language revival or reversing language shift, is an attempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language or to revive an extinct one. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Those involved can include linguists, cultural or community groups, or governments.
(British Nationality Act 1981, Schedule 1, Article 1(1)(c), and the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005) Welsh (Articles 2 and 3, Part II (Article 7) and Part III (Articles 8–14, with reservations)) (Welsh Language Act 1967 (repealed 21.12.1993) and the Welsh Language Act 1993) Isle of Man (UK) 27/03/2001 Manx Gaelic
The ELP was launched in June 2012 with the intention of being a "comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on the endangered languages of the world" according to the director of the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), Lyle Campbell, a professor of linguistics in the Mānoa College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature.
A related term is linguicide, [1] the death of a language from natural or political causes, and, rarely, glottophagy, the absorption or replacement of a minor language by a major language. [2] Language death is a process in which the level of a speech community's linguistic competence in their language variety decreases, eventually resulting in ...