But that's not the point, as far as language survival is concerned.
Other First Nations — the Ojibwe, in Minnesota; the Blackfoot, in Montana; the Iñupiat, of northern Alaska — also have nests, and the trend has been gaining momentum since the passage, in 2006, of the Esther Martínez Native American Language Preservation Act, which provided funding for language survival and restoration programs from pre-K through college.
As many as 75percentt of the languages spoken in the territories that became the United States have gone extinct, with slightly better language survival rates in Central and South America, slightly worse survival rates in Australia.
But, keeping these languages enmeshed in the fabric of daily life — which, particularly for the newer, younger speakers who are key to these languages' survival, means being a viable way to communicate through technology — is the only way they will have even a slim hope of surviving.
But Palenqueros, as the community's residents call themselves, say the biggest threat to their language's survival comes from direct contact with outsiders.
Reclaiming ancestral traditions, the urban poor fashioned new languages of survival.
Survival analyses were implemented in the R programming language using the "survival" package.
The postbellum US into which Little Women was released had been racked by its disagreements over slavery, the southern half couching its support for slavery in the language of economic survival.
While he describes his language level as "survival Chinese," he says that hasn't been a problem in his work life because the Kavli Institute's official language is English, and the students he encounters are proficient in the language.
Each international partner is responsible for the basic training of its own astronauts, where a basic knowledge is taught on space science and engineering, ISS systems and operations and general astronaut skills like flying, diving, survival, language, etc.
Because expressions like this were rare in the student response corpora, and did not contain explicit language about differential survival, the scoring models failed to detect them.
