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Language revitalization is the attempt to maintain | Language revitalization is the attempt to maintain endangered langauges or to revive extinct ones. The vitality of languages that have lost or are losing their attributes is restored. Other names for those activities are e.g. language maintenance, language revival, language preservation, language reproduction, language reversal, language renewal and linguistic revival. (Tsunoda 2006: 169) | ||
Nowadays, hundrets of languages around the world are endagered or disappearing due to a decline in number of native speakers. Language revitalization programs exist in most regions of the world and try to revive a language by taking measures against the decrease of speakers. The programs differ from region to region and language to language. Some of them operate on a nation-wide level like in the case of Irish while others involve a small community. (Grenoble & Whaley 2006: 1) | Nowadays, hundrets of languages around the world are endagered or disappearing due to a decline in number of native speakers. Language revitalization programs exist in most regions of the world and try to revive a language by taking measures against the decrease of speakers. The programs differ from region to region and language to language. Some of them operate on a nation-wide level like in the case of Irish while others involve a small community. (Grenoble & Whaley 2006: 1) |