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	Ongota - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ongota (also known as Birale/Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia.
		Mikesh, P. and Seelig, J.M. "Ongota or Birale: a moribund language of Gemu-Gofa (Ethiopia)".
		A sketch of Ongota, a dying language of southwest Ethiopia.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /ongota_language.htm (114 words)

	limousin language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Limousin language is a Romance language akin to Provençal spoken by some people in the part of southern France known as Limousin.
		The Limousin language is a variety of the Occitan language, and as such is a langue d'oc.
		Limousin is a moribund language, and is used primarily by rural people over age 50.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /limousin_language.html (184 words)

	4Reference \|\| Ainu language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Ainu language (アイヌイタㇰ (Aynu Itak)) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido_prefecture.
		Ainu is a moribund language, with a small and rapidly dwindling number of speakers; in the town of Nibutani where most of the remaining native speakers live, there are 100 speakers, out of which only 15 use the language everyday.
		Extensive research on Ainu language and the culture of Ainu was performed by the anthropologist Bronislaw Pilsudski.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Ainu_language.html (458 words)

	MORIBUND LANGUAGES OF THE NIGERIA-CAMEROON BORDERLAND
		In addition to these, a fifth person indicated Njerep as a language she used outside the home (she is Njerep married to a non-Njerep), and a sixth Njerep speaker is known to live outside the hamlet in another quartier of Somié.
		Certainly there are documented cases of language shift involving dissimilar languages, however it is not known whether, or to what extent, the degree of similarity facilitates or hinders the process of shift.
		Declining population appeared to be a major factor in the death of languages in the area; causes for the fall in population may be linked directly or indirectly to either or both of the Fulani jihad and the Chamba incursions in the region, upheavals which took place during the 1800s.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /dz/connell/Mori/Moribundlngs.html (4543 words)

	Endangered Language Groups
		Smaller languages are in more danger, but the complex social, economic, political, or religious factors are decisive for the transmission of an original language from parents to children.
		Dorian, Nancy C. Language shift in community and individual: The phenomenon of the laggard semi-speaker.
		Fishman, Joshua A. Reversing language shift: Theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages.
	www.sil.org /sociolx/ndg-lg-grps.html (824 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		The task of documenting these languages is critical given the very small populations of remaining speakers of moribund languages and the lack of written materials for most of the languages.
		Languages of the Moluccan migrants in the Netherlands.
		The Alune language is symbolically very important in the Netherlands as its speakers are located in western Seram in the territory commonly held to mark the location of Nunusaku, the mythical mountain from which all life is held to derive.
	www.ogmios.org /143.htm (3527 words)

	Lakota Student Alliance - Language Shift
		Languages contain traditional wisdom, for example of medical plants; which tree has bark that may prevent cancer; but the name of that tree is about to become extinct.
		He states: The most important relationship between language and culture that gets to the heart of what is lost when you lose a language is that most of the culture is in the language and is expressed in the language.
		In the 1980's it became apparent that the language was on the verge of extinction.
	www.geocities.com /lakotastudentalliance/lsa2_langshift.html (6839 words)

	Endangered Languages: Revival and Revitalization
		A language which has no native speakers (people who grew up speaking the language as a child) is called "dead" or "extinct." A language which has no native speakers in the youngest generation is called "moribund." A language which has very few native speakers is called "endangered" or "imperilled."
		Language revival and language revitalization are attempts to preserve endangered languages, and that is precisely what our website project is about.
		Language revitalization is the rescue of a "dying" language.
	www.native-languages.org /revive.htm (900 words)

	Wichita language - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Wichita is a moribund language spoken in Oklahoma.
		It is agglutinative, but surface forms often differ to actual morphemic shapes due to the usage of a series of unusual phonological processes at morpheme boundaries.
		Overlong vowels are represented, occurring in very few of the world's languages (although Estonian is one).
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Wichita_language (332 words)

	Language TOC Vol.71 no. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Moribund Dialects and the Endangerment Canon: The Case of the Ocracoke Brogue; Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
		Moribund dialects threatened by the encroachment of healthy varieties of the same language has been overlooked in establishing the language endangerment canon.
		Endangered varieties of languages as safe as even English exhibit structures not found in mainstream language varieties, and so are an invaluable resource to scholars of language variation - and, indeed, of language patterning in general.
	www.lsadc.org /language/714.html (777 words)

	Ainu Language of Japan's Hokkaido Region
		The Ainu language (Aynu Itak) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
		Speakers: Ainu is a moribund language, with a small and rapidly dwindling number of speakers; in the town of Nibutani where most of the remaining native speakers live, there are 100 speakers, out of which only 15 use the language everyday.
		Research on Ainu language and culture: Extensive research on Ainu language and the culture of Ainu was performed by the anthropologist Bronislaw Pilsudski.
	www.japan-101.com /language/ainu_language_of_japan.htm (402 words)

	Documenting and Maintaining Indigenous Languages
		The Indian Languages Program was in large part the result of a survey carried out in the institutions of higher learning in North Dakota in which Native American students had ranked native language courses as their number one priority.
		By using sound recordings, the language and the voices of elders are preserved forever, and the lessons are easily available to elders, parents, tribal colleges, community centers, and anyone interested in keeping the language alive.
		Although immersion may be the ideal method for language preservation, it is not a viable alternative for many indigenous languages such as Arikara because of the lack of native speakers and environments where the native language is spoken.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/RIL_6.html (8925 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		At the second International Conference on Endangered Languages (Nov 30 — December 2 2001 in Kyoto as part of the Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim Project), it became clear that UNESCO and endangered-language advocates share the same goal: the maintenance and perpetuation of language diversity.
		to strengthen research and the collection of materials relating to endangered languages, for which little or no such activities had been undertaken to date, and which belong to a specific category such as language isolates, languages of special interest for typological and historical-comparative linguistics, and are in imminent danger of extinction, 4.
		Language Attitudes and Policies: the dominant group’s or the neighboring group’s attitudes toward languages affect the maintenance or abandonment of the language of the ethnolinguistic community.
	www.ogmios.org /215.htm (2444 words)

	Language Log: Can relationships between languages be determined after 80,000 years?
		Almost to a man, historical linguists assume that the attempts by Ruhlen and the late Joseph Greenberg proposing that languages of great antiquity retain traces of their origins in single ancestral languages are...
		Almost to a man, historical linguists assume that the attempts by Ruhlen and the late Joseph Greenberg proposing that languages of great antiquity retain traces of their origins in single ancestral languages are irresponsible.
		Kusunda is a moribund language of Nepal, once assumed to be Sino-Tibetan like a good Nepalese language often is, but which upon examination reveals itself to be something else.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001037.html (820 words)

	Newswise
		A linguist has found another one that was previously unknown to the scientific community and says its approaching extinction illustrates the problem of language endangerment.
		David Harrison, an assistant professor of linguistics, will present his findings on the language spoken by an indigenous community in a remote part of central Siberia at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in Seattle on Feb. 15.
		Harrison, a specialist in Tuvan and other Siberian languages whose work is supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, has conducted field research on endangered languages of South Siberia and Western Mongolia since 1996.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/502861 (612 words)

	USATODAY.com - Linguist records one of world's vanishing languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		PHILADELPHIA — It is estimated that half the 6,800 human languages spoken worldwide could be extinct within 100 years, and a Swarthmore College linguist's work documenting endangered tongues led him to one that was largely unknown to the outside world.
		It is now considered a "moribund" language, meaning children no longer speak it and it likely will become extinct.
		The writing system was "so clever, so perfect" that Harrison is producing a grammar of the language and plans to return to Siberia next year to develop a children's storybook with the Middle Chulym — as a source of community pride and as a way of documenting the language for posterity before it vanishes.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-02-06-desperately-seeking-chulym_x.htm (679 words)

	languagehat.com: CHULYM.
		Endangered language research is undergirded by a commitment to empowering the speakers of those languages so that they can maintain their language in the face of overwhelming pressure.
		I wholeheartedly agree that the situation with endangered languages reflects a dire situation for huge numbers of people the world over who are downtrodden and oppressed and the like, and that we should be up in arms about this.
		Many communities with threatened languages have a long history of colonial oppression and continued racism, and it's galling enough as it is for some community members that the descendants of the very people who contributed to them ceasing to speak their language in the first place (e.g.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001125.php (6608 words)

	Ainu language - ruv.net Encylopedia Information Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Ainu language (Ainu Itak) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group in northern Japan and Sakhalin.
		Although typologically similar in some respects to Japanese, Ainu is a language isolate with no known relation to other languages.
		Ainu is a moribund language, with a small and rapidly dwindling number of speakers; a 1996 estimate lists only 15 active speakers out of some 15,000 ethnic Ainu (Ethnologue).
	infopedia.ruv.net /ai/Ainu_language.html (311 words)

	Print Article: How Minimus the mus is helping revive a moribund language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The course has doubled the study of Latin in British primary schools and revived interest in the dying language in classrooms.
		The head of languages at Ravenswood, Denise Reading, said that before Minimus, there was "nothing" designed to teach Latin to younger students aged up to 10.
		Educators once predicted the language would die by the end of the 20th century, but today it enjoys a renewed interest, encouraged by films like Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Dead Poets Society.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/04/04/1081017036687.html (429 words)

	Aromanian Vlachs: The Vanishing Tribes
		Prof.Barba, a native of Livadz, Greece, who is the President of the Union for Aromanian Language and Culture of Freiburg, Germany.
		Languages might be lost and new one acquired but the tribal identity emerges as uncontrollable as a spring stream when the snows are melting.
		To claim that the Romanians, (who set up an extensive network of schools and churches on the behalf of their brethren, in the vernacular language as in it literary version) "stirred trouble among Vlachs", is a crude remark in sharp contrast with the accepted human and minority rights standards.
	www.vlachophiles.net (10959 words)

	Michif Language and the Metis People (Mitchif, Métis Creole, French Cree)
		Language:: About 500 Metis people in North Dakota and scattered locations in Canada still speak Michif, a unique French-Cree creole using French nouns, Cree verbs, and some local vocabulary borrowed from Indian languages like Ojibway or Dene.
		Children are no longer learning Michif, leading linguists to class the language as "moribund" (headed for extinction), but there have been efforts to revive its use as a cultural language in some Metis communities.
		People: The word "Metis" has two different meanings in Canada: any mixed-blood Indian ("métis" just means "mixed" in French,) who have their own Aboriginal status in Canada; or a member of a particular cultural group of mixed ancestry, the descendants primarily of French traders and Cree Indians.
	www.native-languages.org /michif.htm (598 words)

	Who are the Chechen?
		The Chechens and their western neighbors the Ingush are distinct ethnic groups with distinct languages, but so closely related and so similar that it is convenient to describe them together.
		Like most indigenous Caucasian languages Chechen has a wealth of consonants, including uvular and pharyngeal sounds like those of Arabic and glottalized or ejective consonants like those of many native American languages; and a large vowel system somewhat resembling that of Swedish or German.
		Academics, writers, artists, and intellectuals in general are well versed in the cultures of both the European and the Islamic worlds, and the society as a whole can be said to regard both of these heritages as their own together with the indigenous north Caucasian artistic and intellectual tradition.
	www.ulfsbo.nu /ussr/Chechen.html (1649 words)

	Ainu language - Articles and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Ainu language (アイヌイタㇰ (Aynu Itak)) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
		It was once spoken in the Kurile Islands, the northern part of Honshu, and the southern half of Sakhalin.
		Most of the 150,000 self-proclaimed ethnic Ainu in Japan (many do not know or are secretive for fear of discrimination) speak only Japanese, although there is an increasing number of second language learners, especially in Hokkaido, thanks to the efforts of Ainu activist and former Diet member Shigeru Kayano, a native speaker himself.
	www.breakpt.org /article/Ainu_language (468 words)

	Seminar
		The goal of this paper is to present the Blackfoot language as an encompassment of the language and the people who speak it.
		Since the introduction of the Welsh Language Act in 1967 and the implementation of the Welsh Language Board in 1993, the decline in number of speakers has been halted.
		The purpose of this paper is to explain the reason for the language endangerment, to show the impacts of the Spanish language, and to address the current efforts being made to preserve the indigenous language.
	www.umt.edu /ling/faculty/Miyashita/seminar.htm (763 words)

	Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 40, no. 4
		The fate of the Native American languages of southeastern New England and eastern Long Island provides a case study in language obsolescence through shift, demonstrating that stages of language obsolescence documented in modern times also apply to this historical case, although specific factors varied among the different communities.
		Language mixture, and the exercise of power by rhetorical means in the sermon, are seen to be interrelated pragmatic functions of the communicative event, whereby the persuasive art of preaching is exercised upon a largely bilingual and culturally "mestizo" congregation.
		In conclusion, the language of the sermon, and the communicative strategies it exemplifies, is contextualized in relation to other genres of religious discourse in the Andes.
	www.indiana.edu /~anthling/v40-4.html (597 words)

	Limousin language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Limousin language is a Romance language akin to Provençal spoken by some people in the of southern France known as Limousin.
		Limousin is a moribund language and is primarily by rural people over age 50.
		As with all d'oc the status of Limousin as a language rather than a dialect of Occitan hotly debated.
	www.freeglossary.com /Limousin_language (344 words)

	Gessiane Lobato Picano (U. British Columbia) - Documentation of Kuruaya, a moribund language of Brazil. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Documentation of Kuruaya, a moribund language of Brazil
		Kuruaya, a language of the Munduruku family of Tupi stock, is among those increasing the statistics of Brazilian languages that are nearly extinct.
		Since the description of the language is so sketchy, basic work with word lists, texts and paradigms will be undertaken first.
	sapir.ling.yale.edu /~elf/picanco.html (133 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rome
		For intermediate and university students suitable schools of religious instruction have been formed, connected with the language schools and the scholastic ripetizioni, so as to attract the young men.
		Maxentius went so far as to restore to the Christians their cemeteries and other landed property, and, if we are to believe Eusebius, ended by showing them favour, as a means of winning popularity.
		At this period several pretentious buildings were erected -- baths, a circus, a basilica, etc. In the fourth and fifth centuries the city began to be embellished with Christian buildings, and the moribund art of antiquity thus received a new accession of vitality.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13164a.htm (14280 words)

	Endangered Language FundEndangered Language FundEndangered Language FundEndangered Language Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Endangered Language Fund is pleased to announce the grants awarded in 2001.
		The Endangered Language Fund is a US nonprofit organization dedicated to the study and preservation of languages that are threatened with extinction.
		Fieldwork on Mmani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo), a dying language of coastal Guinea-Conakry
	sapir.ling.yale.edu /~elf/earlier_projects.html (926 words)

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