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Title Lesser-known languages of South Asia : status and policies, case studies, and applications of information technology / edited by Anju Saxena, Lars Borin.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 386 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 175
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 175.
Note Partly based on presentations at a panel in connection with the 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund University, 2004.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 [and others] -- 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.
Summary 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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Subject Linguistic minorities -- South Asia.
Linguistic minorities.
South Asia.
Computational linguistics -- South Asia.
Computational linguistics.
Sociolinguistics -- South Asia.
Sociolinguistics.
Communication and technology -- South Asia.
Communication and technology.
South Asia -- Languages -- Variation.
Language and languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Saxena, Anju, 1959-
Borin, Lars.
European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (18th : 2004 : Lund, Sweden)
Other Form: Print version: Lesser-known languages of South Asia. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006 (DLC) 2006021785
ISBN 9783110197785 (electronic book)
3110197782 (electronic book)
9783110189766 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
3110189763 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)