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The paper "Loss and Endangerment of World languages" states that based on the foregoing library investigation pertaining to the loss and endangerment of world languages, a variety of reasons were uncovered to explain such global linguistic phenomenon.... The Igbo language is one of three primary languages in Nigeria with an estimated 20 to 25 million speakers.... The possibility of language endangerment from communities with lesser vocabulary, however, can not be discounted, even if there are numerous other reasons why languages are endangered....
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Introduction: Dead languages, Extinct languages, Endangered languages What do Latin, Sanskrit, Coptic and Hebrew have in common Smart alecks are quick in their repartees that these are sophisticated languages that never fail to impress when quoted.... In reality, except for Hebrew which was revived from the doldrums, these languages are no longer spoken by any known group of people as their own native language....
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The constitution of Canada through the constitutional act 1867 has recognized the existence of aboriginal communities or people and thus has guaranteed them rights in the constitution and in administering justice.... Section 35 of the constitution of Canada defines aborigines as 'aboriginal people in Canada include the Indian, Inuit, and metis people of Canada.... nd further sect 35 sub sec 4 states 'notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the aboriginal and treaty rights referred to in sub section 1 are guaranteed equally to male and female....
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Apparently, the principal investigator assigned to the case set aside important data pointed out to him regarding Neil Stonechild's disappearance and demise.... It was only in 1991 that the government Canada formed a Royal Commission on aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) to attend to the concerns of the Aborigines of Canada such as previous government courses of action, to be able to present policy proposals.... Autopsy reports showed hypothermia as the cause of death and investigations by the police service disproved foul play in his death....
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One of the key insights is that immersion programs can still work in bilingual education, but they need to factor in primary languages other than English, and that this tweaked immersion paradigm has promise based on positive outcomes of similar learning situations with students having diverse primary languages and ethnicities (Swain and Lapkin, 2005).... From there, the chapter highlights how important schools are in teaching young people other languages, especially in North America, where communities are more homogeneous linguistically compared to other geographies....
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These early schools carried out instruction and religious education in local languages.... y the 1960's a global push was underway for 'decolonization' of the education of indigenous communities, which included instruction in native languages (Patrick & Sherwood 255).... The reasoning behind this shift was that students would be more successful in their academic pursuits when instructed in their native languages, while such instruction would provide avenues for advancement among adults in indigenous communities....
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This paper "Circumstances and Causes Around the Death of canadian aboriginal languages" discusses the phenomenon of language death and examines what causes it.... the case of Canada is an interesting one because there is still today a large variety of experience occurring in terms of the way indigenous languages have prospered or died off within a country that operates predominantly in English and French at the national level... It has been noted that language is a very big factor in the formation and sustaining of identity and that there is, therefore, a link between the survival of aboriginal languages and the general wellbeing of individuals and of the aboriginal community as a whole....
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The term Aboriginal creates a perception that all of these people are the same culturally, but this is not the case in Canada.... The highest numbers of suicide in the globe are recorded by the Aboriginal people in Canada but this is not the case for other aboriginal people in the world since there are many other groups of these people that have much lower rates of suicide.... The paper 'Suicide in aboriginal People in Canada' suggests that it is a need to continue the search for optimal ways to prevent suicides in the population, but the paradox is that the current intervention of the competent persons with good intentions can have dramatic consequences in the future....
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