Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Enets 30 Apr 20171 May 2017 Enets belongs to the Uralic language branch. More specifically, Enets belongs to the Samoyedic group of languages. It is closely related to Nenets, another Samoyedic language. There are two distinct…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Manx 25 Apr 201725 Apr 2017 Manx is a revived language with 1,662 speakers according to a government census from 2011. The last native speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974. Recordings of Ned Maddrell speaking the…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Inari Sami 14 Apr 201716 Apr 2017 Top photo credit: kallerna Inari Sami belongs to the Eastern group of Sami languages. Other living Eastern Sami languages include Ter Sámi, Skolt Sami and Kildin Sami. Eastern Sami languages…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Low German/Low Saxon 9 Apr 20179 Apr 2017 NOTE: Special thanks goes to Jhan Nîillh and Martin ter Denge along with other members of the Regional, Minority and Indigenous Languages group on Facebook for their contributions to this…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Palauan 2 Apr 20179 Apr 2017 Palauan is an official language, along with English, spoken in the Republic of Palau. It is also spoken by a small minority in Guam and Northern Mariana Islands. There are…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Basque 26 Mar 201726 Mar 2017 Basque is a minority language spoken in parts of Spain and France. Most Basque speakers, 93 percent, reside on the Spanish side of the border. According to Ethnologue, the total…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Maori 19 Mar 201719 Mar 2017 Maori is a language spoken by the Maori people - the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is an official language in New Zealsnd. The name of the language can…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Skolt Sami 12 Mar 201713 Mar 2017 Top picture: Sami clothing in the Arktikum museum, in Rovaniemi, Finland. Credit: Zouavman Le Zouave Skolt Sami is an endangered language spoken in Finland and Russia. In the past it…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – the Sorbian languages 5 Mar 20175 Mar 2017 Featured photo: View of the city of Cottbus at sunset by Teodor Bordeianu The Sorbian languages are a pair of minority languages, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian, which are spoken…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Breton 26 Feb 201727 Feb 2017 Breton belongs to the Celtic branch of Indo-European languages. It is part of the Brittonic (also called Brythonic) sub-group, which includes Welsh and Cornish, as well as the extinct Cumbric.…
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