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LING 224 “Endangered Languages” course (No pre-requisites!)

September 3, 2019 12:00 am - December 13, 2019 12:00 am

Global | Canada | Edmonton | University of Alberta

Capacity building

This is a course on “Endangered Languages” that will, for the first time, be open to all University of Alberta students. A short description of the course follows:

Increased awareness of the possibility of losing forever the world’s linguistic diversity has led to the establishment of “language endangerment and maintenance” as an area of study in its own right. In this course, we will examine the global phenomenon of language endangerment and learn about the various social, political and economic factors underlying language shift (causes), the ways in which endangerment impacts linguistic structure, communities, and society in general (consequences), and the efforts of linguists and communities to stem the tide of language loss (responses).

Students taking the class will, by the end of it, be able to:

  1. Contrast the different socio-political and economic factors underlying language endangerment
  2. Identify some of the consequences of language endangerment (e.g. attrition, obsolescence)
  3. Compare the two main responses to language endangerment (i.e. language documentation and language revitalization)
  4. Prepare a language vitality assessment for an endangered language

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Major objectives: Focus attention on the critical risks confronting indigenous languages
Thematic areas: Promotion

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Organizer: Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (Academia)

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Indigenous languages matter for social, economic and political development, peaceful coexistence and reconciliation in our societies. Yet many of them are in danger of disappearing. It is for this reason that the United Nations declared 2019 the Year of Indigenous Languages in order to encourage urgent action to preserve, revitalize and promote them.
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