Lesser-known languages of South Asia: status and policies, case studies, and applications of information technology
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter c2006
Schriftenreihe:Trends in linguistics 175
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Beschreibung:Partly based on presentations at a panel in connection with the 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund University, 2004. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 conciousness 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 ... [et al.] -- 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
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
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ISBN:3110197782
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