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Documenting the acquisition of indigenous languages.

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Summary

Human language diversity is declining rapidly. Documenting how children acquire endangered languages is crucial for linguistic research before this knowledge is lost.

Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Language documentation
  • Child language acquisition

Background:

  • Human language is characterized by remarkable diversity, yet acquisition data exists for only 3% of the world's over 6000 languages.
  • Rapid language loss threatens the documentation of indigenous languages, potentially losing data on how children acquire them within two decades.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the critical importance of documenting the language acquisition of the last child speakers of indigenous languages.
  • To advocate for a collaborative research effort to establish efficient procedures for documenting children's language diversity worldwide.

Main Methods:

  • This paper presents a case for prioritizing the documentation of linguistic diversity.
  • It outlines necessary steps for achieving comprehensive documentation of child language acquisition in endangered languages.
Keywords:
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