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Linguistic diversity and scholarship: Endangered languages as a critical part of diversity and as a resource for scientific inquiry
3 at UA nominees for Regents’ Professor: Ofelia Zepeda, cofounder of the American Indian Language Development Institute is nominated for Regents’ Professor
One for the Road : Short review of Mark Abley’s Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Communicating [...]

Stopping the Tip

In India, the Oraon tribe speak Kuruk or Kurux (kru), a Dravidian language. With more than two million speakers, according to the Ethnologue, it would seem the language is safe.
According to Indian radio site See More Catholic News, however, a tip is underway. A May 9 article relates how social and cultural advancements in conjunction [...]