Languages: Sluggish Responders to Global Change
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Dr Nicholas Ostler (chairman of the Foundation for Endangered Languages and author of The Last Lingua Franca and Empires of the Word) on the need for languages, particularly English, to adapt to change. Can English be challenged as the world's lingua franca?
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Dr Stephen Morey (CRLD, La Trobe University) on the languages of the Tangsa people of northern India and the problems of language standardisation in linguistically diverse communities.
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Slides for 'Can a ‘Common Language’ Work for the Tangsa?' by Dr Stephen Morey.
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