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Title:Language vitality assessment of Deori: An endangered language
Bibliographic Citation:Acharyya, Prarthana, Mahanta, Shakuntala; 2019-09; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24853.
Creator:Acharyya, Prarthana
Mahanta, Shakuntala
Date (W3CDTF):2019-09
Description:Deori, a Tibeto-Burman language, is an “endangered” language and is described as a language on the verge of its extinction. Recent research on Deori phonetics and phonology has shown loss of distinct pitch realization and identification in the speech of older as well as younger generation speakers. The difference in production and perception of tonal categories among the speakers of the younger age group led to an examination of language vitality of Deori. To substantiate the analyses of inter-generational language change, this study takes into account inter-generational perceptions on language use and its robustness. The findings of this study show that the language status of Deori is not completely bleak, and there is a sense of optimism for the future of the language among speakers irrespective of age. The findings also show that the language suffers from lack of support in the public domain, lack of teachers to teach Deori as a subject in schools, and absence of exposure in new media. If these problems are rectified, then there is hope of survival for Deori, but only with sustained and conscious efforts aimed at revitalizing.
National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:31 pages
Identifier:Acharyya, Prarthana & Shakuntala Mahanta. 2019. Language vitality assessment of Deori: An endangered language. Language Documentation & Conservation 13: 514-544.
1934-5275
Identifier (URI):http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24853
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Rights:Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Subject:Endangered languages
Deori language
language vitality
Tibeto-Burman languages
Table Of Contents:acharyya_mahanta.pdf
Type:Article
Type (DCMI):Text

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