Global Survey of Revitalization Efforts: A mixed methods approach to understanding language revitalization practices

dc.contributor.author Pérez Báez, Gabriela
dc.contributor.author Vogel, Rachel
dc.contributor.author Patolo, Uia
dc.date.accessioned 2019-08-28T09:18:17Z
dc.date.available 2019-08-28T09:18:17Z
dc.date.issued 2019-08
dc.description.abstract The world’s linguistic diversity, estimated at over 7,000 languages, is declining rapidly. As awareness about this has increased, so have responses from a number of stakeholders. In this study we present the results of the Global Survey of Revitalization Efforts carried out by a mixed methods approach and comparative analysis of revitalization efforts worldwide. The Survey included 30 questions, was administered online in 7 languages, and documented 245 revitalization efforts yielding some 40,000 bits of data. In this study, we report on frequency counts and show, among other findings, that revitalization efforts are heavily focused on language teaching, perhaps over intergenerational transmission of a language, and rely heavily on community involvement although do not only involve language community members exclusively. The data also show that support for language revitalization in the way of funding, as well as endorsement, is critical to revitalization efforts. This study also makes evident the social, cultural, political, and geographic gaps in what we know about revitalization worldwide. We hope that this study will strengthen broad interest and commitment to studying, understanding, and supporting language revitalization as an integral aspect of the history of human language in the 21st century. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship National Foreign Language Resource Center en_US
dc.format.extent 68 pages en_US
dc.identifier.citation Pérez Báez, Gabriela, Rachel Vogel, & Uia Patolo. 2019. Global Survey of Revitalization Efforts: A mixed methods approach to understanding language revitalization practices. Language Documentation & Conservation 13: 446-513. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1934-5275
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24871
dc.language.iso en-US en_US
dc.publisher University of Hawaii Press en_US
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International en_US
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
dc.subject language revitalization en_US
dc.subject surveys en_US
dc.subject language vitality en_US
dc.title Global Survey of Revitalization Efforts: A mixed methods approach to understanding language revitalization practices en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.type.dcmi Text en_US
prism.endingpage 513 en_US
prism.publicationname Language Documentation & Conservation en_US
prism.startingpage 446 en_US
prism.volume 13 en_US
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