Speech about language endangerment and political instability in Manipuri history

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Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' L. Somi Roy discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word, and the relations between insurgency and writing systems in Manipur.

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Burke, Mary February 21, 2020.

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Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' L. Somi Roy discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word, and the relations between insurgency and writing systems in Manipur.

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Language Endangerment and Political Instability

This NSF-funded series of events on language endangerment and political instability uses overlapping methodology, data, and case studies from linguistics and political science to investigate how government policies, war and other forms of conflict, forced migration, and displacement due to territorial disputes create intersecting causes and consequences of political instability and language endangerment.

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Burke, Mary. Speech about language endangerment and political instability in Manipuri history, video, February 21, 2020; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1833412/: accessed May 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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