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	Essentialism and Relativism in Gaelic and Sorbian Language Revival Discourses
		Monolingualism in the minority language is confined to infants, and the general pattern of language use ranges from a 'leaky' diglossia to the point where it is entirely symbolic and/or confined to specific occasions.
		Herder's conflation of language, culture and nationhood has not only been rendered implausible by the ideological and practical consequences of urbanisation, colonialism and globalisation but largely been discredited as conceptually vague and unfalsifiable, while the underlying ideal of ethno-cultural diversity is widely discussed and emphatically promoted.
		Disputes over 'languages' and 'dialects', or 'correct' and 'corrupt' language varieties can never be conclusively resolved because the determination of internal and external language boundaries is to a large extent an arbitrary, political decision.
	www.arts.ed.ac.uk /celtic/poileasaidh/seminarwebversion2.html (9801 words)

	Language revival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Language revival is the revival, by governments, political authorities, or enthusiasts, to recover the spoken use of a language that is no longer spoken or is endangered.
		Language death is the process by which a language ceases to be used by the people who formerly spoke it.
		In Europe, in the 19th and early 20th century, the use of both local and learned languages declined as the central governments of the different states imposed their vernacular language as the standard throughout education and official use (this was the case in France and Italy).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_revival (957 words)

	Endangered Languages: Revival and Revitalization
		Language revival and language revitalization are attempts to preserve endangered languages, and that is precisely what our website project is about.
		Language revival is the resurrection of a "dead" language, one with no existing native speakers.
		Language revitalization is the rescue of a "dying" language.
	www.native-languages.org /revive.htm (907 words)

	CREDE - The Sociocultural Context of Hawaiian Language Revival and Learning Final Report: Project 1.6
		Languages that are learned in the traditional way, that is, languages are learned by children from their parents and grandparents.
		That is, students learn the target language through hearing it in an everyday context and by using it with their teachers and peers, rather than by taking second language classes conducted in their first language.
		Language development sessions are often organized around the language needed to teach specific content areas; for example, to discuss the vocabulary and sociolinguistic functions necessary to teach science.
	crede.berkeley.edu /research/llaa/1.6_final.html (13573 words)

	The Celtic language Revival?
		Even the term "language death" is itself deceptive, because, as D. Gregor wrote, "languages don't die, they commit suicide.(1)" A language dies when people consciously decide to stop speaking it.
		The challenging language supplants the native one because it is the language of commerce.
		When one becomes able to use a Celtic language instead of a dominant imperial language, one has gone across a barrier into a different world." The transformation he refers to is a transformation of thought that reflects the elder Celtic Worldview.
	www.summerlands.com /crossroads/celticlanguage/revival.htm (1348 words)

	Language revitalization: revival of Warrungu (Australia) and maintenance of Maori (New Zealand)
		Now, there is one particularly interesting aspect of this language revival movement, and this has to do with pride, self-esteem, and interest in a language that has been enhanced by a unique linguistic feature that the language possessed.
		Palmer’s dedicated efforts to have his language documented have proved to be truly worthwhile, and what he had sowed more than a quarter century ago are now beginning to be harvested by his descendants.
		Maori people’s activities to maintain their language are no doubt the best known and most advanced among all the language revitalization movements in the world, so in August 2001 I visited New Zealand to observe their activities and learn from their experiences.
	www.sgu.ac.jp /com/ksasaki/kaken/essay/essay-tsn.htm (1259 words)

	Irish language
		The government of Ireland is trying, thus far unsuccessfully, to revive Irish as the primary language of the country; it is an official language, and the study of Irish is required in preparatory schools.
		Goidelic - Goidelic, or Gaelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European...
		An Analysis of Hiberno-English in the Early Novels of Patrick MacGill: Bilingualism and Language Shift from Irish to English in County......
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0825484 (415 words)

	Language Revival, Preventing and Reversing Heritage Language Decline and Loss
		Language loss is a worldwide problem that separates people from the richness of their cultural heritage and prevents them from living their full cultural identity and life energy.
		Responding to language decline requires new approaches that respect the unique character of each people and their history and place.
		Language Revival helps people re-acquire their declining heritage languages using a blend of creative and traditional social/cultural experiences with educational, linguistic, and film/video resources.
	www.languagerevival.com (164 words)

	Language revival - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Language revival is the revival, by governments, political authorities, or enthusiasts, to recover the spoken use of a language that is no longer spoken or learned at home.
		Still others have only a few known speakers; these languages are endangered languages.
		This page was last modified 07:33, 23 November 2005.
	www.voyager.in /Language_revitalization (522 words)

	Indo-European Languages » Proto-Indo-European language revival Group at dnghu.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We think it’s already time to talk about us, the Indo-European Language Revival Group, the sponsors of this indo-european.eu project, of gathering every possible free Indo-European-languages’ resources in a single website.
		It is a decentralized group, headquartered in Badajoz and promoted by the University of Extremadura and by the Extremaduran Regional Government and some of its public institutions.
		Indo-European Languages is proudly powered by Indo-European language revival group, European and Indo-European
	www.indo-european.eu /languages/2007/01/28/proto-indo-european-language-revival-group-at-dnghuorg (204 words)

	Yr Athro/Professor Colin R Baker
		The Evaluation of National Curriculum Assessment of Welsh and Welsh Second Language at Key Stages 1,2 and 3: An Interim Report to the Welsh Office and the Schools Examinations and Assessment Council, May 1992 (18 pages) with Iolo Wyn Williams.
		Welsh Language Education: A Strategy for Revitalisation Chapter in C. Williams (ed.) 'Language Revitalisation: Policy and Planning'.
		This lecture was repeated in February 1989 to a large invited audience in Ealing (organised by Ealing LEA).
	www.bangor.ac.uk /addysg/rae/crb.htm (3143 words)

	Online Cherokee language lessons are available at www (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From Native Languages of the Americas at http://www.native-languages.org/ or http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm
		language with an innovative written syllabary invented by a Cherokee scholar, spoken by about 22,000 people primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
		If you understand this, both the extent to which the Cherokees had adopted American standards of civilization before the Removal and the ultimate futility of it, you will go a long way towards understanding the Cherokee mentality and also the attitudes of other Indian peoples towards us.
	www.cherokeeshouston.org /online_cherokee_language_lessons.htm (668 words)

	Cultural Rights, Language Revival, and Individual Healing
		They were to give up their native culture, speak the language of their conquerors, and become Christian.
		Navajos were told by white educators that, in order to be successful, they would have to forget their language and culture and adopt American ways.
		To reverse this trend, in 1982 Maori language activists responded with a movement for Maori immersion preschools, known as Te Kohanga Reo (the language nest).
	www2.nau.edu /~jar/LLcultural.html (1389 words)

	indieWIRE: Viva El Cine: Will Mexico and Spain Spur a Spanish-Language Revival?
		After the brief, roaring successes of the Gael Garcia Bernal hat trick "Y Tu Mama Tambien," "The Crime of Father Amaro" and "The Motorcycle Diaries," several companies have tried and failed to repeat the model, catering to a mix of art-house devotees and Latino audiences.
		Last year, only a couple Spanish language films were successful, and those companies created to specifically target theatrical releases to the Latino demographic (Arenas Entertainment, Venevision Int'l, Televisa Cine) have all flamed out.
		This two-pronged approach marks the wide divide that few Spanish language films are able to bridge.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/2006/03/viva_el_cine_wi.html (1330 words)

	dead language revival?
		Instead I'll just say that as syntax is often a barrier to learning a language, and as some are easier to learn than others, we may wonder: What qualities should be sought in a language's syntax?
		When one write code (be it in C++, Java, Obj-C, or any other language) much of the information is the design of the class hierarchies: their interelation, their names, what methods they have, etc. This information is the real intelligence of the system's design.
		In an O-O language, this type of information is generally very useful.
	www.oreillynet.com /cs/user/view/cs_msg/4968 (619 words)

	Appropriations include language revival : ICT [2007/06/15] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WASHINGTON - An appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives made June 7 a hopeful day for Native language revival, marking up an extra $3 million for the Administration on Native Americans to implement the language immersion learning and revival programs of last year's Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act.
		The new funds will almost double ANA's spending on Native languages, to $7 million out of a $47 million budget.
		The National Alliance to Save Native Languages has taken a prominent role in persuading Congress of the importance, practical, academic and otherwise, of maintaining Native languages.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096415238 (511 words)

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