Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia : Status and Policies, Case Studies and Applications of Information Technology.

Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia : Status and Policies, Case Studies and Applications of Information Technology.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saxena, Anju
Other Authors: Borin, Lars
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2006.
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM.
Subjects:
Linguistic minorities > South Asia.
Computational linguistics > South Asia.
Sociolinguistics > South Asia.
Communication and technology > South Asia.
Communication and technology
Computational linguistics
Language and languages > Variation
Linguistic minorities
Sociolinguistics
South Asia > Languages > Variation.
South Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Language situation and language policies in South Asia
  • Status of lesser-known languages in India
  • Minority language policies and politics in Nepal
  • Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in Pakistan
  • Lesser-known language communities of South Asia: Linguistic and sociolinguistic case studies
  • Vanishing voices: A typological sketch of Great Andamanese
  • Lisu orthographies and email
  • Shina in contemporary Pakistan
  • The rise of ethnic consciousness and the politicization of language in west-central Nepal
  • Why Ladakhi must not be written
  • Being part of the Great Tradition: Another kind of global thinking
  • Information and communication technologies and languages of South Asia
  • The impact of technology on language diversity and multilingualism
  • The impact of technological advances on Tamil language use and planning
  • Corpus-building for South Asian languages
  • Digitized resources for languages of Nepal
  • Multimedia: A community-oriented information and communication technology
  • Language survival kits
  • Grammatically based language technology for minority languages
  • Supporting lesser-known languages: The promise of language technology
  • Worrying about ethics and wondering about "informed consent": Fieldwork from an Americanist perspective
  • Backmatter

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