NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gorka Basterretxea Santiso – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Basque is one of the official languages spoken in the Basque Country and although it is usually considered the minoritised language, its situation might be different in rural areas. The presence of Basque and Spanish has been previously reported in urban areas [Cenoz, J., & Gorter, D. (2006). Linguistic landscape and minority languages.…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Languages, Signs, Language Usage
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Geer, Leah – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Information and research on Mongolian Sign Language is scant. To date, only one dictionary is available in the United States (Badnaa and Boll 1995), and even that dictionary presents only a subset of the signs employed in Mongolia. The present study describes the kinship system used in Mongolian Sign Language (MSL) based on data elicited from…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries, Russian
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pietikainen, Sari; Lane, Pia; Salo, Hanni; Laihiala-Kankainen, Sirkka – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2011
This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of seven villages above the Arctic Circle, in the region called North Calotte. The area forms a complex nexus of contested and changing multilingualism, particularly as regards to endangered indigenous Sami languages and Kven and Meankieli minority languages. Viewing LL as a discursively…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism