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  2. International Decade of Indigenous Languages - Wikipedia

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    Website. idil2022-2032 .org. International Decade of Indigenous Languages is an initiative launched by the United Nations with a mission to raise awareness on Indigenous language preservation, revitalization and promotion. The initiative is launched as per the suggestion from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues, the UN general assembly has ...

  3. Native American Languages Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    The Native American Languages Act of 1990 (NALA) is a US statute that gives historical importance as repudiating past policies of eradicating indigenous languages of the Americas [clarification needed] by declaring as policy that Native Americans were entitled to use their own languages. The fundamental basis of the policy's declaration was ...

  4. Language preservation - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Indigenous Languages Aren't Dead: New Efforts Upholding Them

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    The album is part of a nationwide trend in Indigenous communities to engage younger and newer language learners to become speakers and to revitalize Native languages.

  6. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP or DOTROIP[ 1 ]) is a legally non-binding resolution passed by the United Nations in 2007. [ 2 ] It delineates and defines the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, including their ownership rights to cultural and ceremonial expression, identity, language, employment ...

  7. Language revitalization - Wikipedia

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    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. Some argue for a distinction between language revival (the resurrection ...

  8. Indigenous language - Wikipedia

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    t. e. An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by its indigenous peoples. Indigenous languages are not necessarily national languages but they can be; for example, Aymara is both an indigenous language and an official language of Bolivia. Also, national languages are not necessarily ...

  9. Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous languages of the Americas had widely varying demographics, from the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guarani, and Nahuatl, which had millions of active speakers, to many languages with only several hundred speakers. After pre-Columbian times, several Indigenous creole languages developed in the Americas, based on European, Indigenous ...