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Language Revitalization

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Language revitalization is the revival of a language that is no longer learned or is endangered as fewer people use and pass on the language to younger generations.

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cultural systems, language documentation, language revitalization, language revival, language policy, native speakers, linguicide, death of a language, intangible cultural heritage, language diversity, language promotion, language as an instrument of education and culture, language endangerment, indigenous languages, dialect, ethnobiology

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Tibetan Language Institute

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Report: Language Diversity in Multicultural Europe Comparative Perspectives on Immigrant Minority Languages at Home and at School

Inadequate Protection of Chinese Minorities' Cultural Identities Integrationist policies, implemented alongside minorities' political and economic exclusion, have the practical effect of assimilating minorities into the dominant Han Chinese culture. Accompanied by systematic violations of minorities' civil and political rights, these policies make protection of cultural identity increasingly difficult.

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Janine 5 months ago

Visit the group WiserEarth in Different Languages to follow the progress of making WiserEarth accessible to those speaking languages other than English. Teams have begun planning and translation for WiserEarth in French, Spanish, and Italian.

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