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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2006.
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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.