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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 policy has been defined in a number of ways. According to Kaplan and Baldauf (1997), "A language policy is a body of ideas, laws, regulations, rules and practices intended to achieve the planned language change in the societies, group or system" (p. xi [3]).
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This page includes a listing of policies and guidelines for English Wikipedia. Policy and guideline pages describe Wikipedia's principles and best-agreed practices. Policies are standards that all users should normally follow, while guidelines are meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts.
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 ...
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.
Wikipedia:Centralized discussion – a centralized list of ongoing policy discussions; Wikipedia:Perennial proposals – proposals that come up very often; Wikipedia:Product, process, policy – the place of policies in Wikipedia; Help:Introduction to policies and guidelines – major policies and guidelines for very new users
A school in Guangdong with writing "Please speak Standard Chinese.Please write standard characters" on the wall.. Protection of the varieties of Chinese (Chinese: 保护方言) refers to efforts to protect the continued existence of the varieties of Chinese in mainland China and other Sinophone regions, amid pressure to abandon their use, usually in favor of Standard Chinese.