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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
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<p>According to the received view, the history of modern language revitalization seems to begin from the Hebrew and Gaelic revivals in the 19th century. The motives and impact factors of people such as Pāṇini, Gutenberg and Herder aside, and disregarding the
rise of European nation states and their national languages, I would be interested to know whether there have been less known – and presumably less successful – early ("pre-Hebraic" and "pre-Gaelic") collective efforts that could be characterized as language
revitalization in a sense of consciously and systematically trying to halt or reverse the decline of a language or to revive an extinct one. Anywhere in the world?</p>
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<p>Needless to say, I would be grateful for any references to published work on this issue.<br>
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<p>Best regards,</p>
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<p>Jussi</p>
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<p>http://ansatte.uit.no/jussi.ylikoski/<br>
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