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Jenni Young

Two Song Cycles by Liza Lim : The New Yorker - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Culture Language Death

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    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture (Review)
  • Jenni Young on 28 Apr 14
     
    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture.
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Languages of the world - 0 views

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Language World Languages Part 1 Language Death Global languages

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  • Jenni Young on 05 Mar 14
     
    BBC guide to languages of the world, with links to endangered languages, the origins of language, etc
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Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Global English Language Death Mother Tongue Culture Arabic

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    More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)
  • Jenni Young on 24 Mar 14
     
    More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But - what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)
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BBC Languages - Language and Identity - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...language_and_identity.shtml

Language Part 1 Language Death Global languages Opinion

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    Page has many links to other topics related to Global English, including Endangered Languages, adopting words from other languages, etc.
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Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...a-language-in-its-infancy.html

Language Language Death Language change New languages

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    A linguist has concluded that a new language, with unique grammatical rules, has come into existence, created by children in a remote area of Australia (NYT article)
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By Using Language Rooted in Andes, Internet Show's Hosts Hope to Save It - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Language Death Mass communication Part 2 Internet Indigenous languages

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    Kichwa, a variant of the South American language Quechua, is the tongue in which a weekly program is broadcast by speakers who are striving to sustain it.
  • Jenni Young on 16 Aug 14
     
    Kichwa, a variant of the South American language Quechua, is the tongue in which a weekly program is broadcast by speakers who are striving to sustain it.
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Helping Hands? - 0 views

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Language Language Death Sign Language

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    article about American Sign Language being used instead of local sign languages
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Endangered Languages - 1 views

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Language Language Death Indigenous languages

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    UNESCO page has links to other pages, including: Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, Biodiversity and Linguistic Diversity, FAQs, etc.
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Last Words: The Dying of Languages | Worldwatch Institute - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Global languages Language Death

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    Millennia of human experience are wrapped up in the planet's many languages, and this linguistic diversity may be as essential to our cultural health as biological diversity is to our physical health (Blog)
  • Jenni Young on 25 Mar 14
     
    Millennia of human experience are wrapped up in the planet's many languages, and this linguistic diversity may be as essential to our cultural health as biological diversity is to our physical health (Blog)
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Who Speaks Wukchumni? - Video - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Culture Language Death Language Revival Indigenous languages

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    This short documentary profiles the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, a Native American language, and her creation of a comprehensive dictionary.
  • Jenni Young on 19 Aug 14
     
    This short documentary profiles the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, a Native American language, and her creation of a comprehensive dictionary.
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Classroom English will be the death of Aboriginal languages - 2 views

www.crikey.com.au/...-death-of-aboriginal-languages

Language Culture Language Death Australia Aboriginal

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    Blog
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Keeping our languages a live - 1 views

www.phnompenhpost.com/...eping-our-languages-alive.html

Language Language Death Cambodia

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    Article from Phnom Penh Post about the need to keep regional languages alive in Cambodia
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The Vanishing Languages Project - 1 views

www.kajensemble.org/#!current-production/cb3i

Language Language Death Indigenous languages

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    "Musical conversation with the last speakers of 3 nearly extinct languages" by composer Kevin James
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Humboldt's parrot | Omniglot blog - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Language Death Humboldt's Parrot Maypure

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    In 1799 the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was exploring the Orinoco and Amazon rivers and documenting the languages and cultures of the tribes he encountered there. He was given a parrot which was apparently the last surviving 'speaker' of the Maypure language.
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Fighting to save the Welsh language Ymladd i achub yr iaith Gymraeg - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Welsh Language Death UK

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  • Jenni Young on 25 Sep 13
     
    Children are still taught Welsh in schools but few use it socially in adulthood. However, some proud Welsh speakers are doing their best to keep their language alive
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Hacking Language Learning - endangered languages - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Language Death

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    TEDx talk on endangered languages
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Minority languages face grim future - 1 views

www.phnompenhpost.com/...ority-tongues-face-grim-future

Language Part 1 Cambodia Indigenous languages Language Death

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  • Jenni Young on 09 Oct 13
     
    Specialists say the languages of Cambodia's once-isolated highland minorities are being eroded by global forces
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Bilingual education aims to preserve minority languages - 0 views

www.phnompenhpost.com/...aims-preserve-minority-tongues

Language Language Death Part 1 Cambodia Indigenous languages Bilingualism Education

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    Some of the oldest indigenous languages in Southeast Asia may soon become relics of the past, but bilingual education programs could reverse the slide
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Lost indigenous language revived in Australia - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-asia-20066624

Language Language Death

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    An Aboriginal language whose last speaker died n 1929, has been revived in Australia.
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DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Minority Languages Face Extinction - 3 views

www.ipsnews.net/...rity-languages-face-extinction

Language Language Death Indigenous languages Cambodia

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    Inter Press Service article.
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