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| | DOBES Workshop - Programme and List of Participants |
 | | If we cannot prevent a language (or more accurately, the use of a language) from dying, we can at least respect the language by documenting it, that is to say to capture it in its practice and evolution, or in other words, in its culture and history. |
 | | When linguists study an endangered language, they tend to concentrate on the study of its grammar, and often leave the relationship between language and culture little explored, although it is now well known that pragmatics and discourse are part of grammar and that speaking is a culturally constructed activity. |
 | | Khowar, an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic group spoken by a mountain community in the Hindu Kush-Karakorum tract of northern Pakistan, was facing the danger of extinction due to this mindset in the 20th century. |
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