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Language Information Sciences Research Centre (LISRC) - City University of Hong Kong - 0 views

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  • Technology to the "Rescue" of Endangered Languages  InvestigatorsW S Y Wang (PI), Benjamin K Tsou  Funding SourceCompetitive Earmarked Research Grant by the Research Grant Council (Hong Kong)  Project durationDec 1996 - Sep 1998 Because of the great numerical superiority of the Han ethnic group, over 95% of all Chinese, people tend to forget that there are over a hundred other ethnic groups as well in China. Like the Hans, most of these groups trace back to the dim mist of prehistory. Beijing has officially recognised only 55 of them; this gross under-estimate is due to socio-political complications as well as lack of comprehen-sive information. Experts all agree that the real number is at least twice as high. Many of these groups are disappearing fast, especially the ones that have not been officially recognised so far. The table below shows a few of these groups in South China. The data are extracted from a lecture by Professor Sun Hongkai, of the Institute of Nationalities in Beijing, given at RCL in October 1996. While the greatest concentration of these groups is in Yunnan, they can be found throughout South China.
  •   Technology to the "Rescue" of Endangered Languages  InvestigatorsW S Y Wang (PI), Benjamin K Tsou  Funding SourceCompetitive Earmarked Research Grant by the Research Grant Council (Hong Kong)  Project durationDec 1996 - Sep 1998 Because of the great numerical superiority of the Han ethnic group, over 95% of all Chinese, people tend to forget that there are over a hundred other ethnic groups as well in China. Like the Hans, most of these groups trace back to the dim mist of prehistory. Beijing has officially recognised only 55 of them; this gross under-estimate is due to socio-political complications as well as lack of comprehen-sive information. Experts all agree that the real number is at least twice as high. Many of these groups are disappearing fast, especially the ones that have not been officially recognised so far. The table below shows a few of these groups in South China. The data are extracted from a lecture by Professor Sun Hongkai, of the Institute of Nationalities in Beijing, given at RCL in October 1996. While the greatest concentration of these groups is in Yunnan, they can be found throughout South China.
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The Tujia Language and Culture Website - 0 views

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  • The Tujia Language and Culture Website Welcome to the Tujia Language and Culture website! The Tujia people, with a total population of over 8 million, is the 6th largest ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China. They live in the provinces of Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou, as well as in Chongqing Municipality (formerly part of Sichuan Province). These areas lie in a region generally known as Central South China. This website contains pages introducing the Tujia culture and language, together with a photo archive. In addition the website gives access to a large archive of Tujia language material. Imperial Tiger Hunters, our popular-level introduction to the Tujia people has just been published (click on the image on the right for more details); our technical grammar The Tujia Language has also recently been published. Introduction to the Tujia People The Tujia Language Photo Archive This website is based on research carried out under the auspices of the College of Literature and Journalism, Jishou University, Xiangxi Tujia Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The authors worked on this project while they were based at the university from January 2002 to July 2003.
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Imperial Tiger Hunters - 0 views

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  • Imperial Tiger Hunters:An Introduction to the Tujia People of ChinaPhilip & Cecilia Brassett  Paperback, 154 pages (October 2005) Publisher: Antony Rowe Publishing Services ISBN: 1-905200-37-4     •Buy Imperial Tiger Hunters through Amazon UK     •View sample pages (JPEG, 200kb)  Hidden among the precipitous Wuling Mountains, just south of the Yangtze Three Gorges, live the Tujia, an ethnic group numbering eight million, with a long and fascinating history.  Descendants of the ancient Ba people, they lived an essentially independent existence for nearly two millenia. Under clans of feudal chieftains, one of which held sway for a staggering 800 years, they developed a highly distinctive culture - including crying before weddings, dancing at funerals and venerating the white tiger.  Then in the 1730s the Imperial Court in Peking finally gained the upper hand over them. The subsequent 300 years of assimilation by mainstream Chinese culture has taken its toll. The Tujia, pragmatic by nature, have always been able to adapt to new situations. Today, their desire to benefit from the educational and economic benefits of integration into modern China threatens the very survival of their traditional culture.
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SPEAKING IN TONGUES - 0 views

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    "> TIME Logo JULY 7, 1997 VOL. 150 NO. 1 LANGUAGE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AS TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TOURISM AND TRADE MAKE THE WORLD A SMALLER PLACE, LANGUAGES ARE DYING AT AN ALARMING RATE BY JAMES GEARY Sitting in a circle with a dozen other members of the native American Tlingit (pronounced klink-it) tribe, Jon Rowan, a 33-year-old schoolteacher, mutters in frustration: "We're babies. All we speak is baby gibberish." The group is gathered at the community center in Klawock, a town of some 800 people on the eastern fringe of Prince of Wales Island. In the Gulf of Alaska, some 40 km off the Alaskan coast, Prince of Wales Island still survives in a state of pristine natural beauty. But this idyllic stretch of land is home to at least one endangered species: the Tlingit language. Rowan and his fellow tribesmen meet every other week in sessions like this to learn their native tongue before the last fluent tribal elder dies. But as Rowan's frustration indicates, the task is made more difficult because Tlingit is becoming extinct. Forty years ago, the entire tribe was fluent in the language, a guttural tongue that relies heavily on accompanying gesture for its meaning. Now it is spoken by only a handful of people throughout southern Alaska and portions of Canada, nearly all of whom are over the age of 60. Since Tlingit was not originally a written language, Rowan and company are trying to record as much of it as possible by translating just about anything they can get their hands on into Tlingit, from Christmas carols like Jingle Bells to nursery rhymes such as Hickory Dickory Dock. The plight of Tlingit is a small page in the modern version of the Tower of Babel story--with the plot reversed. The Old Testament describes the first, mythical humans as "of one language and of one speech." They built a city on a plain with a tower whose peak reached unto heaven. God, offended by their impudence in building something to rival His own creation, punished them by shatterin
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  • Documentation and description of DulongMr Ross Perlin, SOAS Project Details: Individual Graduate Studentship. Duration: 2008-2010. £32,305 Project Summary: Dulong is a Tibeto-Burman language variety spoken in Gongshan Nu and Dulong Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, China, in villages alongside the Nu and Dulong rivers. With under 10,000 speakers, the language is vulnerable to the encroachment of Lisu and Southwest Mandarin Chinese. While the language is still in full use by the community, this project aims to make a comprehensive multimedia documentation that serve as a basis for language maintenance efforts and provide data previously unavailable to scholars and others interested in the language.
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Slide show: Endangered language - asia - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

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endangered manchu

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  • Descendents of semi-nomadic tribesman who conquered China in the 17th century, they are the last living link to a language that for more than two-and-a-half centuries was the official voice of the Qing Dynasty, the final imperial house to rule from Beijing and one of the richest and most powerful empires the world has known. With the passing of these villagers, Manchu will also die, experts say.
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