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  1. Bully for Brontosaurus
    Reflections in Natural History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of dicursive essays on natural history.
  2. Burnt bridges and a generation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1993
    A first person account of the struggle the children of immigrants face in communicating with their grandparents across a language barrier.
  3. A Civil Tongue
    South Sudan tries to learn English

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    South Sudan has proclaimed English its official language as part of an attempt to encourage economic growth.
  4. Creole Languages
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    These widely scattered languages show striking similarities. The development of Creole in Hawaii suggests children learn a language by first constructing an abstract form of a creole.
  5. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    History of the world's great tongues, from the resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are explored, as are the fascinating failures of once "universal" languages.
  6. Enduring Voices
    Resource Type: Website
    Documenting the planet's endangered languages and featuring Talking Dictionaries giving listeners a chance to hear samples of little-known languages.
  7. Heritage Languages
    The Development and Denial of Canada's Linguistic Resources

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  8. Lakehead University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  9. Language death
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A process that affects speech communities.
  10. A Network of Indigenous Language Digital Activists in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Internet has emerged as a space where many in Mexico can communicate online using indigenous languages, as well as to create new digital content instead of being just consumers of content.
  11. The Penguin Dictionary of Language
    Resource Type: Book
  12. The Penguin Dictionary of Languages
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  13. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  14. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  15. These African animators are saving their native languages using cartoons
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    The African continent hosts roughly one-third of the world’s approximately 7,000 living languages. Due to the relentless dominance of international languages such as English and French, native languages are increasingly coming under threat.
  16. Vergonha
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Vergonha is being made to reject and feel ashamed of one's (or one's parents') non-French language through official exclusion, humiliation at school and rejection from the media as organized and sanctioned by French political leaders.
  17. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Arabic
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Arabic.
  18. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Chinese
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Chinese, and from English to other languages.
  19. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Danish
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Danish, and from English to other languages.
  20. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Dutch
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Dutch, and from English to other languages.
  21. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Farsi
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Farsi, and from English to other languages.
  22. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Finnish
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Finnish, and from English to other languages.
  23. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to French
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to French, and from English to other languages
  24. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to German
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to German, and from English to other languages.
  25. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Italian
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Italian, and from English to other languages.
  26. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Japanese
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Japanese, and from English to other languages.
  27. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Korean
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Korean, and from English to other languages.
  28. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Norwegian
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Norwegian, and from English to other languages.
  29. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Other Languages
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to other languages. Connexions (founded 1975) maintains an online library dealing with human rights, civil liberties, social, economic and environmental alternatives, and grassroots activism. Volunteer translators may be located anywhere, since documents can be sent by email; however, volunteers living in Toronto are welcome to work out of the Connexions office along with our other volunteers and interns.
    Volunteer translators are wanted for translation into various languages, including:
    Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Czech, Esperanto, Estonian, Persian, Georgian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Javanese, Latvian, Lithuania, Macdeonian, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Tagalog/Filipino, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.
  30. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Polish
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Polish, and from English to other languages.
  31. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Portuguese, and from English to other languages.
  32. Volunteer Translators Wanted English to Spanish
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Spanish, and from English to other languages.
  33. Volunteer Translators Wanted - English to Swedish
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Connexions, an independent non-profit research organization and information clearinghouse based in Toronto, Canada, seeks volunteer translators to translate articles, and terms in our subject index, from English to Swedish, and from English to other languages.
  34. You Can't Read This
    Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Written for children ages ten and up, You Can't Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.


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