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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">HI, UNESCO has had a project on language endangerment, and a methodology for assessing language vitality was developed by the UNESCO expert group in 2003.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This can apply to sign languages in principle, but a number of questions for assessment of the language situation need to be adapted for sign languages. We
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ulrike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> linguists interested in signed languages [mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony Chong<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 March 2012 03:46<br>
<b>To:</b> SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: death of sign language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Oh right. If there are only less than 10 users, the language is endangered. Can it apply the same to sign language? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I am asking because the number of signers can't be comparable to the speakers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:34:16 -0700<br>
From: <a href="mailto:susan.fischer@RIT.EDU">susan.fischer@RIT.EDU</a><br>
Subject: Re: death of sign language<br>
To: <a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br>
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I believe that if there are were than 10 users, it is endangered but not dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";color:black">Susan D. Fischer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:Susan.Fischer@rit.edu">Susan.Fischer@rit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Anthony Chong wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I am curious. How will we be able to measure sign language death? Can we consider a language as death language if there less than 10 speakers? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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