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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The UNESCO 'language vitality' scale is discussed in The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages (2011), e<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">dited by Peter K. Austin & </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">Julia
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">I'd be very interested to hear what you're working on, Ulrike, and what aspects of the language situation you are proposing need to be adapted for sign languages. The importance of
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Ulrike Zeshan <<a href="mailto:UZeshan@UCLAN.AC.UK">UZeshan@UCLAN.AC.UK</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>linguists interested in signed languages <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:50:50 +0000<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span><<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: death of sign language<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Web link:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">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 have started doing some work on this with UNESCO and WFD.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Ulrike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> linguists interested in signed languages [<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony Chong<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 March 2012 03:46<br>
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<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: 10pt; 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: 10pt; 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>
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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-size: 10pt; 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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