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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.
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.
In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer known, including by second-language speakers, when it becomes known as an extinct language. A related term is linguicide, [1] the death of a language from natural or political causes.
Elder members of the Ho-Chunk Nation gathered Tuesday in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, to record the tribe’s language to preserve the history for the next generation.
I wouldn’t have thought the importance of the English language in America would be controversial, but our era is full of surprises.When I was on Morning Joe the other day talking about my book ...
A dancer waits in the Hall of Governors before performing during the Native American Heritage Month Celebration at the Oklahoma state Capitol, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.
Language maintenance – preservation of a group's native language as a first or second language where pressures threaten or cause a decline in the status of the language; Auxiliary-code standardization – standardization of marginal, auxiliary aspects of language, such as signs for the deaf, place names, or rules of transliteration and ...
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 ...