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The grammar of well-being: how to talk about illness and health in an Amazonian society
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Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world's most linguistically diverse nation
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Ibalim, Sentiko; Saulei, Simon; Novotny, Vojtech; Weiblen, George D.; Bowern, Claire; Sarvasy, Hannah; Sam, Katerina; Zrzavy, Jan; Duda, Pavel; Bajzekova, Jarmila; Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Baro, Nigel; Kik, Alfred; Colwell, Robert K.; Mogina, Jane; Adamec, Martin; Ruli, Ben; Jorge, Leonardo R.; Drozd, Pavel. - : National Academy of Sciences, 2021
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Papua New Guinea is home to >10% of the world’s languages and rich and varied biocultural knowledge, but the future of this diversity remains unclear. We measured language skills of 6,190 students speaking 392 languages (5.5% of the global total) and modeled their future trends using individual-level variables characterizing family language use, socioeconomic conditions, students’ skills, and language traits. This approach showed that only 58% of the students, compared to 91% of their parents, were fluent in indigenous languages, while the trends in key drivers of language skills (language use at home, proportion of mixed-language families, urbanization, students’ traditional skills) predicted accelerating decline of fluency to an estimated 26% in the next generation of students. Ethnobiological knowledge declined in close parallel with language skills. Varied medicinal plant uses known to the students speaking indigenous languages are replaced by a few, mostly nonnative species for the students speaking English or Tok Pisin, the national lingua franca. Most (88%) students want to teach indigenous language to their children. While crucial for keeping languages alive, this intention faces powerful external pressures as key factors (education, cash economy, road networks, and urbanization) associated with language attrition are valued in contemporary society.
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URL: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/70354/1/70354.pdf
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Links between language and society among the Murui of north-west Amazonia
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Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse nation
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In: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2021)
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Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world's most linguistically diverse nation
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Phonological Word and Grammatical Word: a cross-linguistic typology
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“Damn your eyes!” (not really): imperative imprecatives, and curses as commands
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