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Lesser-known languages of South Asia : status and policies, case studies, and applications of information technology /

The increasing globalization and centralization in the world is threatening the existence of a large number of smaller languages. In South Asia some locally dominant languages (e.g., Hindi, Urdu, Nepali) are gaining ground beside English at the expense of.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies
Otros Autores: Saxena, Anju, 1959-, Borin, Lars
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 175.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Status of lesser-known languages in India / Udaya Narayana Singh
  • Minority language policies and politics in Nepal / Mark Turin
  • Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in Pakistan / Tariq Rahman
  • Vanishing voices: a typological sketch of Great Andamanese / Anvita Abbi
  • Lisu orthographies and email / David Bradley
  • Shina in contemporary Pakistan / Razwal Kohistani and Ruth Laila Schmidt
  • The rise of ethnic consciousness and the politicization of language in west-central Nepal / Michael Noonan
  • Why Ladakhi must not be written-Being part of the great tradition: another kind of global thinking / Bettina Zeisler
  • The impact of technology on language diversity and multilingualism / E. Annamalai
  • The impact of technological advances on Tamil language use and planning / Vasu Renganathan and Harry F. Schiffman
  • Corpus-building for South Asian languages / Andrew Hardie [and others]
  • Digitized resources for languages of Nepal / Boyd Michailovsky
  • Multimedia: a community-oriented information and communication technology / David Nathan and Éva Á. Csató
  • Language survival kits / Jens Allwood
  • Grammatically based language technology for minority languages / Trond Trosterud
  • Supporting lesser-known languages: the promise of language technology / Lars Borin
  • Worrying about ethics and wondering about "informed consent": fieldwork from an American perspective / Colette Grinevald.